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Overview
Founded in 2009 by Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, iCivics is a nonpartisan organization dedicated to advancing civic learning by providing educators and students with the knowledge, skills, and resources needed to embrace and engage in our civic life together. We empower educators and lead the movement to make civic education a nationwide priority so all young people have the confidence to shape the world around them and believe in our country’s future.
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iCivics Privacy Policy: https://vision.icivics.org/privacy-policy/
Signed California Student Data Privacy Agreement? Yes
iCivics Privacy Policy: https://vision.icivics.org/privacy-policy/
Signed California Student Data Privacy Agreement? Yes
Features
•Get access to our full and comprehensive civics curriculum for all of your instructional needs.
•Monitor student progress, manage classes, and assign games in one place with our single-sign solutions, including Google and Clever.
•Lesson Plans Build civic knowledge with ready-to-use lesson plans that consist of readings and activities. Each lesson plan offers a teacher’s guide that outlines the objectives, timing, resources, and steps needed to complete the lesson.
•Videos Introduce students to people and processes they need to know with short, purposeful videos. Grab and hold students’ attention with videos that can be integrated into lesson plans at any point. Use them to introduce a topic, start a discussion, or create a launchpad for research.
•Curriculum Units Simplify planning with topically organized curriculum units. Each standards-aligned unit offers a comprehensive study of a topic through a variety of lessons, games, and activities and can be used just like a chapter or unit of a textbook.
•Private I History Detective: Grow elementary students’ content knowledge, civic dispositions, and critical thinking skills with our K-5 curriculum that makes teaching social studies easy and fun. Students work together to solve each mystery and develop life-long inquiry skills.
•Games Ignite student engagement and create transformational learning opportunities with digital games that make learning objectives come alive. iCivics games allow students to explore roles such as lawyer, county supervisor, and presidential candidate and motivate them to learn about content, concepts, and systems.
•DBQuests Develop skills for in-depth analysis and inquiry with DBQuest, a learning tool that challenges students to dig into primary sources. DBQuest uses document-based questions to guide students in primary source analysis.
•WebQuests Help students connect civic concepts to the real world and learn how to navigate online information with WebQuests. These carefully curated activities break down a topic, present research opportunities, and ask questions that help students make connections and inferences.
•Simulations Bring civics to life through media-rich, whole-class, collaborative simulations. Engage students in a dynamic experience where they navigate questions of student rights by taking the principles established in the U.S. Constitution, drawing on precedent-setting landmark Supreme Court cases, and applying them to the complexities of student life.
•Monitor student progress, manage classes, and assign games in one place with our single-sign solutions, including Google and Clever.
•Lesson Plans Build civic knowledge with ready-to-use lesson plans that consist of readings and activities. Each lesson plan offers a teacher’s guide that outlines the objectives, timing, resources, and steps needed to complete the lesson.
•Videos Introduce students to people and processes they need to know with short, purposeful videos. Grab and hold students’ attention with videos that can be integrated into lesson plans at any point. Use them to introduce a topic, start a discussion, or create a launchpad for research.
•Curriculum Units Simplify planning with topically organized curriculum units. Each standards-aligned unit offers a comprehensive study of a topic through a variety of lessons, games, and activities and can be used just like a chapter or unit of a textbook.
•Private I History Detective: Grow elementary students’ content knowledge, civic dispositions, and critical thinking skills with our K-5 curriculum that makes teaching social studies easy and fun. Students work together to solve each mystery and develop life-long inquiry skills.
•Games Ignite student engagement and create transformational learning opportunities with digital games that make learning objectives come alive. iCivics games allow students to explore roles such as lawyer, county supervisor, and presidential candidate and motivate them to learn about content, concepts, and systems.
•DBQuests Develop skills for in-depth analysis and inquiry with DBQuest, a learning tool that challenges students to dig into primary sources. DBQuest uses document-based questions to guide students in primary source analysis.
•WebQuests Help students connect civic concepts to the real world and learn how to navigate online information with WebQuests. These carefully curated activities break down a topic, present research opportunities, and ask questions that help students make connections and inferences.
•Simulations Bring civics to life through media-rich, whole-class, collaborative simulations. Engage students in a dynamic experience where they navigate questions of student rights by taking the principles established in the U.S. Constitution, drawing on precedent-setting landmark Supreme Court cases, and applying them to the complexities of student life.
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