Babel - Bringing Teachers Together

The Three Fifth's Compromise is a simple enough topic. It's also a perfect opportunity to incorporate numeracy and statistics in the Social Studies classroom. In this lesson, you students will calculate representation in the House of Representatives, chart data on a bar graph, and use that graph to think critically about the Three Fifth's Compromise.

The 2000 Presidential Election highlighted a peculiar American institution - the Electoral College. In this lesson, students examine its functions and simulate alternate outcomes to the election to evaluate proposed reforms.