Day-To-Day Class
Discussion/Debate: All readings & class material are gone over & discussed in the class as a whole
Simulations, related to read-world events/artifacts: Experiential learning from real-world simulations such as apartment rental, stock portfolio design, or analyzing ballot propositions.
Group work/worksheets: Some work covers material in the reading, others such as exploring campaign advertising websites, utilize group activity for students to produce examples to present to the class as a whole.
Films: Films such as Margin Call, The Best Man & A Face In The Crowd are used to further explore the themes of the class.
Visual Demonstrations: Using web resources for research in both the economic and political fields, demonstrated on the smartboard.
Projects
Graphic organizers: To help students organize their writing, or to chunk larger projects into smaller pieces, depending upon the student's learning profile
Backward planning: All projects contain multiple steps and advance due dates to encourage long-term segmented planning.
Metacognition/reflection: Annotated bibliographies and reflective portions of projects for students to further think about what they learned. All experiential and simulation activities contain this component.
Honors Options, mostly creative, for accelerated learners: Further inquiry and development of the topic along creative lines. For example, in the company history project, one honors component is to create a possible future product or service of the company researched.