March 11, 2016 − To engage students in the presidential election process, PBS LearningMedia and PBS NewsHour partnered on a comprehensive interactive educational website, featuring an interactive map created by d’Vinci.
The real-time interactive map gives teachers a non-partisan tool to help students grades K-12 understand and navigate the election process and learn more about the candidates. Teachers and students can use the map in and out of the classroom to track the location of the candidates throughout the campaign. By reading quotes from the candidates, students learn where the politicians stand on the issues of education, climate, guns, defense and immigration. Students can also see how each candidate fairs as the campaign unfolds through the primaries, the national conventions and the general election on November 8, 2016.
In addition, the map shows highlights from the debates and the number of electoral votes garnered by the candidates in each primary election. Special “Did you Know?” facts geared toward grades K-5 and 6-12 are integrated into the map, which is updated as the election season progresses. New stories are added weekly that are geared to the K-12 audience. d’Vinci will add an e-learning activity to the map in the fall.
The interactive election map is part of a multi-platform initiative between PBS and NPR that allows for sharing of news content between the two organizations.
About d’Vinci Interactive
d’Vinci Interactive creates websites, web and mobile applications and e-learning experiences for educational and training purposes. Based in Hagerstown, MD, d’Vinci’s clients include the American Board of Pediatrics, the National Institutes of Health, the National Park Service, the Center on Congress at Indiana University, and many others. Since 1994, d’Vinci has served leading businesses, national associations and government agencies. d’Vinci is a wholly owned subsidiary of JPL, a Pennsylvania-based agency that provides creative marketing, internal communications and learning solutions to regional, national and global brands.
