60 Second Civics Offers Great Civics Lessons Starters

60 Second Civics is one of my favorite resources for lessons on U.S. civics and government. 60 Second Civics is a daily podcast produced by...

What Does John Locke Say? - A Fun Way to Learn About Locke

Like many high school Civics and Government teachers, when I taught Civics I started out with lessons on the works of John Locke. This morni...

Hip Hughes Explains Government Shutdown

Earlier this week Keith Hughes, producer of the world renowned YouTube channel Hip Hughes History , released a new video in which he explain...

C-SPAN StudentCam Video Contest Deadline Nears

C-SPAN is once again hosting a video documentary contest for students. The contest is open to middle school and high school students. To ...

We The Jury - A Game About Being a Juror

iCivics has just released its seventeenth educational game for students. The new game is called We The Jury . We The Jury puts students in t...

Video - Could Texas Secede?

C.G.P. Grey produces all kinds of interesting and educational videos. Five days ago he released a new one that raises the question, "c...

The Electoral College in Plain English

Election Day is less than one month away in the United States. If you're planning to discuss the Electoral College with your students in...

Ad-O-Matic - Create Your Own Campaign Ad

The National Constitution Center currently offers a neat little tool called Adomatic for creating personal campaign ads. To create your cam...

Classroom Deliberations - Current Issues Lessons

C-SPAN Classroom Deliberations is a website designed to educate students about current issues being debated in Congress. There are six issu...

Videos - The Evolution of Republicans & Democrats

CNN Explains recently published a couple of videos explaining the origins and evolution of the modern Democratic and Republican parties. App...

Search Trends and Politics

While eating lunch today I spent a some time looking at Google's Politics & Elections hub . The two aspects of Google's Politics...

Meograph Launches a 4D Election Hub

Meograph is a free service that bills itself as a four dimensional storytelling tool. When you watch a  Meograph  story you will notice that...

The US Election on YouTube

The US Presidential Election is just a little more than two months away now. Every news outlet in the country has an election resources page...

CNN Student News - A Soda Pop Ban?

This morning's episode of CNN Student News has a story about a proposed New York City law that would limit the size of soda pop drinks ...

A Good Directory of Where a Bill Becomes Law

Where a Bill Becomes a Law is a Google Maps-based site designed to help visitors determine where and when a bill was presented to the US Co...

Videos - From Campaign to President

In case you haven't heard, this year the United States is choosing a President. The process started a while ago and we still have almost...

Videos About the Electoral College and the Presidents

The US History Teachers Blog brought my attention to this video , How the Electoral College Works . The video, embedded below, gives a nic...

Being an American Essay Contest and Lesson Plan

The Bill of Rights Institute is currently hosting an essay contest for high school students. The contest asks students to write an essay (10...

Free Electoral College Poster from C-SPAN

C-SPAN Classroom is a great place for social studies teachers to find all kinds of resources for lessons on U.S. History and U.S. Government...

US Civics Infographics

As I've mentioned in the past, every fall semester I teach a civics and government course. Recently, through Jeff Thomas , I learned abo...