Resources
Resources
- On a mission to make voter registration part of every high school in America. Check out The Civics Center resources.
- Registering High School Voters, Joyce Vance, September 3, 2024
- Learn about what happened during the Civic Season across the United States.
- Reclaiming the American flag: A symbol of unity in a divided nation
- Kristina Becvar, The Fulcrum, May 31, 2024
- Universities must renew their commitment to democracy, Rajiv Vinnakota, The Fulcrum, May 30, 2024
- Quiz: Celebrate Constitution Day with a test of knowledge
- Democracy Decoded (podcast), Campaign Legal Center
- Educating for American Democracy A Roadmap to Excellence in History and Civics
- How Political Institutions Shape Outcomes and How We Might Reform Them, Danielle Allen, Lee Drutman, Katie Fahey, and Cara McCormick, Library of Congress, April 15, 2021
- Opinion: Our democracy is ailing. Civics has to be part of the cure, Danielle Allen and Paul Carrese, The Washington Post, March 2, 2021
- Has Democracy Become a Spectator Sport?, Salzburg Global Seminar, Designs on the Future Initiative, July 29, 2020
Lesson Plans
- AP United States Government and Politics Classroom Resources
- Building Democracy for All: Interactive Explorations of Government and Civic Life, EdTech Books, Robert W. Maloy and Torrey Trust, 2020
- Bunk History
- C-SPAN Classroom
- Redistricting and Reapportionment Resources
- Clip: The Process for Reapportionment and Redistricting in 2021 (3:20)
- Clip: Reapportionment after the 2020 Census (4:42)
- Clip: New Changes in the 2021 Redistricting Cycle (2:40)
- Clip: Partisan Gerrymandering Supreme Court Ruling (4:36)
- Clip: Ben Williams on States' Redistricting Efforts (5:24)
- Bell Ringer: What is the census and how does it work? (4:52)
- Bell Ringer: The Redistricting Process (2 Clips)
- Bell Ringer: Partisan Gerrymandering and How District Lines are Drawn (8:13)
- Bell Ringer: Independent Redistricting Commissions (3:00)
- Bell Ringer: The Number of People per Congressional District (2:36)
- Bell Ringer: Term Limits and Gerrymandering (2:44)
- Lesson: Analyzing the 2020 Census Results (3 Clips)
- Lesson: What to expect during the 2020 Redistricting Process (5 Clips)
- Lesson: The Redistricting Process: How States Draw District Maps (7 Clips)
- Lesson: Baker v. Carr (8 Clips)
- Lesson: Shaw v. Reno (2 Clips)
- Lesson: Overview of the Census (9 Clips)
- Deliberation: Should the Federal Government Regulate States' Election Procedures? (10 clips)
- Should the Electoral College be reformed?
- Should your state modify its voter registration laws and methods for submitting a ballot?
- Redistricting and Reapportionment Resources
- Hamilton Education Program
- How to Teach Civics in Action to K-12 Students, Baylor University
- iCivics - DBQuest
- GeoInquiries for Government
- National Council for the Social Studies, Social Education, October 2010
- National Geographic Society Resource Library
- New American History, Electing the House of Representatives
- The Harvard Case Method: Improving Civics Education
Standards
- College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards
- State guidance for enhancing the rigor of K-12 civics, economics, geography, and history
Materials
- A Roadmap for Civil Discourse: The EAD (Educating for American Democracy) Inquiry Deck, New American History, 2025
- Engaging Congress
- Library of Congress - Teaching with Primary Sources
- On the Hunt for the Original Louisiana Literacy Test, Rebecca Onion, Slate, July 3, 2013
- National Constitution Center
- News Literacy Project
- Social Change Ecosystem Map
- Teaching with Primary Sources
- U.S. Census Bureau