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Participate in Civic Learning Week by using our partners’ classroom and community activities, and share the word about Civic Learning Week using our promotional materials.
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Educator Toolkit

Educator Toolkit

Classroom Activities, Promotional Materials
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.
Civics for All of US

Civics for All of US

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

Active Citizen

Classroom Activities
Walk in the shoes of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates in this game from Minecraft Education
After Abolition: Simulating a Meeting of Prince Hall's Freemason Lodge in 1780s Massachusetts
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After Abolition: Simulating a Meeting of Prince Hall's Freemason Lodge in 1780s Massachusetts

Classroom Activities
Students participate in a simulated debate about civic choices that takes place in the Black Freemason Lodge in Boston.
Agents of Influence

Agents of Influence

Classroom Activities
The spy-themed video game from Alterea that teaches student to neutralize misinformation
Argument Wars

Argument Wars

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

Becoming US

Classroom Activities
Teaching resources for a more accurate and inclusive migration and immigration narrative.
Branches of Power

Branches of Power

Classroom Activities
Learn to control all three branches of the U.S. government with this free iCivics game
Brief and Incomplete: Votes for Women
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Brief and Incomplete: Votes for Women

Classroom Activities
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?
Call for Change: Your Election 2024 Project

Call for Change: Your Election 2024 Project

Classroom Activities
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.
Cast Your Vote

Cast Your Vote

Classroom Activities
Election Day is coming, are you prepared to vote? Find out with this free iCivics game
Celebrating Civic Learning Week with Statistics in Schools Resources

Celebrating Civic Learning Week with Statistics in Schools Resources

Classroom Activities
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!
Civic Digital Literacy - iCivics Announces Partnership with Digital Inquiry Group

Civic Digital Literacy - iCivics Announces Partnership with Digital Inquiry Group

Classroom Activities, Featured
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.
Civic Friendship and Compromise: The First Cabinet

Civic Friendship and Compromise: The First Cabinet

Classroom Activities
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.
Civic Project Workbook

Civic Project Workbook

Classroom Activities
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.
Civics Through History from PBS LearningMedia

Civics Through History from PBS LearningMedia

Classroom Activities, Featured
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.
Classroom Law Project Weekly Current Events

Classroom Law Project Weekly Current Events

Classroom Activities
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.
Convene the Council

Convene the Council

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

Counties Work

Classroom Activities
Running a county is a lot of work! Manage things well, and try to get reelected in this free iCivics game
Court Quest

Court Quest

Classroom Activities
Navigate our court system and guide citizens to the right place in this free iCivics game
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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.