Subjects Social Studies Civics
Civics
C-SPAN Classroom
A free website for social studies teachers for teaching Civics and U.S. government that features searchable copyright cleared video clips (many of which can be downloaded). Clips are linked to national standards and include discussion questions and primar ...
Online American Citizenship Quiz
This fun and engaging online quiz challenges your students to learn the answers to the citizenship test and build their knowledge of American history. The site includes an online test, games, related video clips and more.
eLECTIONS Your Adventure in Politics
This is a one or two player educational game where students role-play their own virtual candidates running for President. In the game students see, read, hear and interact with multimedia content from CNN Student News, C-SPAN and History. Students have ...
Election 2008 Resources from PBS
Gives teachers a blueprint for engaging students in the election using social media tools and their "Access, Analyze, Act" model. Includes a great deal of resources with teaching suggestions, lesson plans and online interactive activites. Supporting s ...
Student Voices
Student Voices makes the study of government relevant and exciting for high school students by helping them examine how issues they consider important are played out in their own governments and election campaigns. Using an interactive website, Student V ...
Annenberg Classroom - Resources For Amer...
This site offers one a wide variety of educational resources. Teachers can find curricula, lesson plans, multimedia programs, and other teaching materials all indexed with the educational standards of their state. Teachers can search by keyword, by subje ...
Civics Online: [Re]envisioning the Democ...
Civics online is a collaborative, internet project working to provide teachers, students, and parents with a rich array of primary source materials, learning tools, and professional development resources with which to learn and teach civics. The teachers ...
FactCheckED.org: Annenberg Classroom Fac...
Designed for high school students and teachers, this site is useful if you are teaching current events, civics or media studies. The site is designed to help students learn to cut through the misinformation and deception that surrounds the many messag ...
National Mock Election
The National Student/Parent Mock Election (to be held on October 30, 2008) makes students and parents aware of the power of their ballot by actively involving them in a full-fledged campaign and national election. In the last presidential election year, ...