Increasing political literacy

I’ve just come across a series of up-to-date resources by the Parliamentary Education Service. These clear and simple to understand guides could be uploaded as pdf files onto a school VLE or intranet site. They cover areas of British politics that sometimes as teachers we assume students know, including answers to such questions as: what is a constituency?; what happens if two candidates have the same number of votes in an election? (both of which cropped up in my lessons this week).

The link to the site is here