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...

C-SPAN Classroom Releases an Improved Lesson Plan Collection

C-SPAN Classroom offers a lot of excellent resources for U.S. Government and History teachers. In the past I've featured their interacti...

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...

IDEA Guide to 2012 Presidential Debates

The International Debate Education Association (IDEA) has published a free 157 page guide to the 2012 Presidential debates . The guide offe...

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...

A History of U.S. Campaigns & Conventions

Northeastern University has launched a new site all about U.S. political campaigns and party conventions. The site is divided into five mai...

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...

US Debt Clock

Just how quickly is the US national debt accumulating? What about state debts? Get the real-time answers to those questions and more at USDe...

It's April 15th, Let's Learn About Taxes

April 15th is usually the deadline for filing income tax returns in the United States. This year, the deadline is April 18th. I usually have...

Bush v. Gore Ten Years Later

To some of us (particularly those who were passionate undergrad political science students in 2000) it seems like just yesterday Bush v. Gor...

3 Midterm Election Resources for Students

Tomorrow, voters will go to the polls in cities and towns across the country. If you're planning to have discussions with your students ...

Videos for Learning About Congress

Yesterday, my post about 47 Alternatives to YouTube started with the statement that some excellent educational content can be found on YouT...