Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate is unveiling “Caucus 101” — a seven-part instructional series to teach high school students the basics of Iowa’s first-in-the-nation Caucuses.
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Canada Snyder, a teacher at Des Moines Central Academy, is one of the three teachers who co-authored the lesson plans…
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The lesson plan describes how to hold “mock” caucuses. For Republicans, it’s a simple ballot, but for Democrats, it’s different. That’s why Snyder and the two other teachers decided rather than having students use candidate names, the students participating in a mock Democratic Party Caucus declare their support or preference for a particular kind of fruit….
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Each presidential campaign has been invited to submit a video that will be included in the lesson plan — and will likely be viewed by thousands of Iowa students. Pate says Democratic candidates have been much quicker to respond to that invitation, but he’s giving Republicans a few more days to submit videos. Pate says the non-partisan “Caucus 101” lesson plan has been “endorsed” by both political parties and by the Iowa Council for the Social Studies.