Resources

Get the Educator Toolkit to access resources for planning and communicating your participation in Civic Learning Week. The toolkit includes planning resources, sample social media posts, graphic assets, and more.

An education initiative from the National Archives that promotes civic literacy and engagement and offers virtual learning experiences.

Walk in the shoes of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates in this game from Minecraft Education

Students participate in a simulated debate about civic choices that takes place in the Black Freemason Lodge in Boston.

The spy-themed video game from Alterea that teaches student to neutralize misinformation

Argue real Supreme Court cases, and put your lawyering skills to the test with this free iCivics game

Teaching resources for a more accurate and inclusive migration and immigration narrative.

Learn to control all three branches of the U.S. government with this free iCivics game

Brief and Incomplete asks us to take a look at the histories we think we know and ask: What have we chosen to remember? Who’s missing? And what’s the whole story?

Empower students to use research and media-creation skills to share their views on important issues, practice civic participation, and build media literacy competence while exercising voice and choice. Secondary students choose an election issue they care about, research it, then express their ideas for how to make the world better in an original audio or video commentary or editorial cartoon. Students can publish their pieces to the online KQED Youth Media Challenge showcase, and select pieces may be shared on KQED’s broadcast and digital channels.

Election Day is coming, are you prepared to vote? Find out with this free iCivics game

Statistics in Schools helps bring civics education to life with resources on a range of topics including shifts in the U.S. population, trends in voting and congressional apportionment!

iCivics and the Digital Inquiry Group have partnered to create Civic Digital Literacy, a collection of non-partisan, evidence-based, classroom-ready materials for educators that will equip students to identify and discern credible information online. Launching in Fall 2024, Civic Digital Literacy will include 15 lesson plans, ten student-facing videos, and six videos for teachers covering a range of topics, from determining who’s behind cloaked websites to evaluating political claims shared on social media. A preview of these essential tools for teaching digital literacy is now available.

From George Washington’s Mount Vernon, students analyze George Washington’s decision-making process and his use of varying opinions of the people in his cabinet during the Presidency. Students have the opportunity to see how civil disagreement can advance compromise and governing.

Democratic Knowledge Project’s online tool that students and teachers can use to facilitate Student-led Civics Projects. The Civics Project Workbook is centered on our 10 Questions for Young Changemakers framework. The workbook is targeted to eighth graders, but can be incorporated in a range of contexts.

A new Civics Collection for PBS LearningMedia, companion to the U.S. History Collection, launches Fall 2024, with free, interactive, media-rich resources for Grades 6–12 teachers and students. The Civics Collection is produced by GBH Education and funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Every week we deliver a Current Event page to teachers' inboxes. Included are curated articles, podcasts, videos and other materials on a civics issue, as well as lesson plans to facilitate student-centered learning. Teachers can also search our website for our past Current Events pages.

The responsibilities that come with citizenship are learned, not inherited. We owe it to our children and to society to invest in civic education. Connecting Civic Education and a Healthy Democracy, a report published by Carnegie Corporation of New York, highlights the need for state-level policies that expand and improve K–12 civic learning. The report calls for greater investment in civics and features examples of how coalition building has helped advance more robust policies in a growing number of states. Equipping young people with the tools to think critically, to engage in constructive debate, and to discover their agency is critical to reducing polarization and strengthening American democracy. Visit Carnegie.org/CivicsPolicy to download the free report, to check out the state of civics in your state, and to hear how civics advocates are building momentum to expand access to quality civic education for all students.

Step inside the Situation Room and take on the role of president responding to international events in this free iCivics game