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...

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...

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...

Shout - Explore, Connect, Act

Shout is a global learning project coordinated by the Smithsonian, Microsoft Partners in Learning, and Taking IT Global. The purpose of Sho...

Interactive U.S. Constitution Games & Lessons

Constitution Day is less than two weeks away and by U.S. law every student is supposed to participate in a lesson about the U.S. Constitutio...

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...

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...

60 Second Civics - Listen and Learn

In my post about the 2010 Edublog Awards (voting is still open by the way) I mentioned that looking through the lists of nominees is a good...

How Do I Become President? - Infographic Contest

Kids.gov and Challenge.gov together are hosting an infographic creation contest for kids. To enter the contest students have to create an i...

How to Use C-Span's Video Library in Your Classroom

C-Span Classroom has created some new resources and updated some old resources for teachers for the 2010/2011 school year. C-Span's vid...

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...

Constitution Day Lessons from Sunnylands Classroom

Constitution Day (September 17) is less than a month away now. Federal law requires teachers in the US to teach a lesson on the US Constitut...

Interactive Activities About US Government

The Center on Congress at Indiana University has a good collection of interactive, role-playing activities for learning about how the...

Interactive Map - Where Americans Are Moving

Forbes has an interesting interactive map that breaks down the movements of Americans by county. Every county in the United States is repre...

Our Courts - Interactive Lessons on US Civics

Our Courts is a web-based resource designed to teach students about US Civics and the US Supreme Court. Our Courts was developed by a part...

Kids in the House - Learn About the House of Representatives

Kids in the House provides great games and activities for elementary and middle school students to learn about the functions of the House o...

Soda Tax - This Should Get My Students Talking

Today's episode of CNN Student News concludes with a segment about a proposed federal tax on soda pop. Based on how much soda I see my ...