Resources

• Quiz: Celebrate Constitution Day with a test of knowledge

• 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?

• 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

• 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

• Social Change Ecosystem Map