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Smart Voter: How to Judge a Candidate

For Students 9th - 10th
The League of Women Voters offers a step-by-step process of evaluating public officials for voting and election purposes. The process points out elements to look for in both a candidate's experience and campaigning behaviors. Potential...
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In Time: Tenets of Democracy: Critical Thinking and Decision Making

For Students 9th - 10th
This critical thinking exercise and checklist is designed for teachers and students. A lesson plan can be developed here that illustrates decision-making skills and a teacher can use examples of common problems that get in the way when...
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FNO Press

Fno.org: Develop a Family Decision Making Council

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief article introduces PMI as a method of decision making. While the thrust of the article deals with building skills for the information age, the PMI model is an interesting way to go about family decisions.