Civics & American Government
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Annenberg Classroom- Resources for Excellent Civics Education
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Civic Online Reasoning (COR)– Free curriculum.
- Connecticut Democracy Center (CDC)
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CTMirror.org is a website on state government that includes coverage of the state budget, education, the economy, health, human services, etc.
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CT News Junkie has covered the State Capitol and other state news for a while.
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The Youth Leadership Initiative, YLI website, #1 website for Civics teachers.
- Kid Governor - An award winning civics education program for 5th graders.
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Dream of a Nation – a free and open-source resource designed to foster civic understanding and engagement.
The book and materials are geared for grades 8-12 and is filled with diagrams, pictures, and charts that encourage visual literacy in economics, civics, and math, as well as narratives which deepen social and historical understanding. Dream of a Nation makes social studies, civics, and economics relevant for students, through the discussion of issues which define our world, and encourage young people to take an active part in addressing these issues to create a better world for tomorrow.
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Resource for K-12 educators from the Anti-Defamation League Curriculum Connections (http://www.adl.org/education/curriculum_connections) is a collection of original lesson plans and resources that help K-12 educators integrate multicultural, anti-bias, and social justice themes into their curricula. Each issue is organized around a particular topic or theme and is distributed via e-mail three to four times per school year.
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CT-N State Civics Toolbox,” offered online by The Connecticut Network. A new resource that combines videos of legislative debate with lesson plans and classroom activities for teachers to aid in civics instruction for high school and middle school classes.
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OldBaileyOnline.org – A fully searchable online edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing accounts of over 100,000 criminal trials held at London’s central criminal court.
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Annenberg Political Fact Check Fact Check, the project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, is a nonpartisan, nonprofit, “consumer advocate” for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. It monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases. The goal is to apply the best practices of both journalism and scholarship and to increase public knowledge and understanding.
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Native American experiences and perspectives: Native American Indian site on tribal law
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United State Supreme Court Center Search by topic
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C-Span- unfiltered view of government.
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Teaching With Historic Places- National Register of Historic Places
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The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School– Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy
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National Constitution Center – The NCC was established by Congress through the Constitution Heritage Act of 1988, as an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization. NCC was established to increase awareness and understanding of the US Constitution, the Constitution’s history, and the Constitution’s relevance to our daily lives so that all of us — “We the People” — will better understand and exercise our rights and our responsibilities.
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FindLaw– Index of law resources useful for searching the Web statutes and law reviews as well as Supreme Court decisions from 1937 to the present.
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In honor of Human Rights Day, teachers are encouraged to talk about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and teach it to their students. There are many outstanding resources online including:
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www.hrea.org/erc/Library (this whole website is great)
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