Identifying Bias
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IDENTIFY YOUR OWN BIAS
Do you consider yourself left, right, or center? 1. Take this Political Spectrum Quiz to see where you land on the political spectrum. 2. Print your results when you are done. 3. Use the Left Right Processing Chart below. (Teacher cuts out the pre-sorted answers from the second half of the document and has students place them in the blank table provided.) 4. Examine the graphic in the Left Right Government below made by David McCandless and Stefanie Posavec, to check your group's Left Right Processing Chart. 
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IDENTIFY BIAS IN THE NEWS
Do yo consider your news sources left, right, or center? 1. Teachers onsite: Scroll down to show the video on this page or students can access the video directly: We Are the Voters 2. Complete this Media Website Examination LOOKING AT DIFFERENT ANGLES THROUGH THE LENSES OF PERSONAL EXPERIENCE AND DATA Listening to personal experience and studying data can tell us a lot about how to examine an issue. Personal Experience Considering Data
Read Stop and Frisk: An in Depth Introduction and discuss the questions. Data Go to All the Stops Use the questions here to help process the data. From PBS -Analyzing stop and frisk from personal narratives and infographics | ||||