TEACHING COMPANION / NO ACCOUNT NEEDED
Manytide
The map has neat borders. People’s lives don’t.
Belonging, public systems & federalism · 45–60 min · optional +10 min
Learning goals
- Explain how public arrangements shape practical belonging.
- Distinguish jurisdiction from the people and obligations a service must reach.
- Connect territorial choices to authority and resources.
Before the activity
No prior theory knowledge needed. A useful opening before a lecture.
Syllabus description
Follow one household across records, schools and borders. Arrange authority and resources, then discover who your solution still leaves out. A neat map is only the beginning. Students produce field journal with evidence and revised explanations.
Discussion prompts
- Who falls between the categories in your preferred arrangement?
- What would have to change for your solution to travel elsewhere?
What to assess
Look for explanations that connect records, authority and resources to the household’s situation.
Limitations
Manytide is fictional. Choices illustrate institutional questions rather than predict a real country’s outcomes.
Credit & permissions
Created by Yoav Duman. Free educational use, sharing and hosted embedding; software rights reserved. Software, artwork, branding and third-party materials are separate; see the full reuse information.
Suggested citation: Yoav Duman, “Manytide: Teaching companion,” Possible States, https://possiblestates.com/teaching/manytide. Include your access date.
ASSESSMENT & SUBMISSION
Grade the explanation.
The interface has no opinion.
Set an endpoint, ask for the activity’s readable report, and use your existing LMS. Students can use Print / Save as PDF where a separate download is not offered. A progress backup is for restoring work, not grading it.
A suggested 10-point rubric
For each criterion: 0 = absent, 1 = partial, 2 = clear and supported. Adapt the weighting to your course; this is guidance, not automatic scoring.
- Concepts / 2
- Use the relevant political concept accurately.
- Evidence / 2
- Support a claim with a specific record or comparison.
- Mechanism / 2
- Explain how the rule or arrangement produces a consequence.
- Revision / 2
- Address a rival account or explain a change of mind.
- Limits / 2
- State what the model or evidence cannot establish.
Say this before they begin.
- Choose For class and follow the instructor’s endpoint.
- Save a progress backup before moving devices or changing website address.
- Open the readable report and check the required responses.
- Upload it to the course assignment. Check the LMS submission confirmation.
Switching from exploration keeps the current work, but skipped class responses may still need completing. A local report cannot establish authorship or make an activity tamper-proof.
Make it an assignment.
Edit this text, then copy it into your LMS. These edits stay in this tab.
Syllabus description & discussion prompts
Syllabus description
Follow one household across records, schools and borders. Arrange authority and resources, then discover who your solution still leaves out. A neat map is only the beginning. Students produce field journal with evidence and revised explanations.
Questions for a discussion board or class debrief
- Who falls between the categories in your preferred arrangement?
- What would have to change for your solution to travel elsewhere?