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Political Compass activity - test students knowledge of UK party position
29th September 2014
Here's a challenging activity to test how much your students know about the political position of the main UK parties. Inspired by the research and information available from The Political Compass website, it asks students to place the parties on a grid. The horizontal axis is the usual economic left or right but the vertical axis is based upon the level of how authoritarian or libertarian the party's policies might be.Having placed the parties on the grid (printed off from the Powerpoint resource), the teacher can then enter each team's response and give them a score out of 100 (the closer the student answers are to the positions stated by The Political Compass website, the higher their score).
The activity can be downloaded below and used as a resource in class. However, a fully editable version of this resource (where the answers can be edited by the teacher to change the parties or their position on the grid) will be made available as a digital resource to those delegates attending our Wow Politics CPD event. Book your place whilst there are some place left!