About This Lesson
This lesson has students learn about the basics of polling including concepts like margin of error, representative samples and the different methodologies used by pollsters. Students will view video clips of pollsters and political analysts and develop strategies for interpreting political polling data. The lesson concludes by having students apply these strategies to current examples of political polls.
To view the entire lesson and procedures, visit the C-SPAN Classroom lesson plan.
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