LEGISLATIVE BRANCH RESEARCH.
You'll be using three main resources.
Culture Grams. Click World Edition, then select your country from the drop down menu on the left. Scroll down to Government on the left hand side. CULTURE GRAMS IS WHERE YOU ARE GOING TO FIND MOST OF THE INFORMATION YOU NEED!
Encyclopedia Britannica. Click High School Edition, then search for your country.
QUESTIONS TO ANSWER:
What is the name of your country’s legislative branch?
How many houses make up the legislature?
What are the names of the legislative houses?
How many people make up those houses?
How do the people in the houses get their jobs?
Who do they represent?
What leadership roles exist in those houses?
How is legislation passed in your country?
How long is a term?
Are there term limits?
How many political parties are there in your country?
What are the names of some of them?
When is election day?
INTRODUCTION.
[This is a slide deck explaining the process of logging in. If you're in class when we do this, you won't need to click on this. We'll do it together.]
Here is where you will click to import this Democracy Project into your own NoodleTools account.
The World Factbook provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, environment, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.
Democracy Around the World
A visual representation of the EIU data from their democracy index (infographic created by Visual Capitalist).