Teaching with iCivics Resources
GETTING STARTED
Using iCivics Resources
Our grab-and-go standards-aligned resources engage students with complex concepts in ways they can understand and relate to. To get started, we recommend exploring our planning and integration tools, resource types, and teaching ideas to find everything you need to inspire your students to be knowledgeable, curious, and civically engaged. We look forward to being a part of your classroom!
Fill in the gaps with our Scope and Sequence Tool
Our Scope & Sequence documents are your guide to implementing iCivics resources in your classroom. Use it to build a comprehensive curriculum or supplement your existing pacing guide with targeted, high-quality resources.
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See all available resources organized by topic, making unit planning simple and fast.
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Discover high-quality resources for teaching civics
Hundreds of standards-aligned resources designed to meet all of your instructional needs with minimal preparation required.
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 learning objectives, timing, and step-by-step instructions.
Games
Ignite student engagement with games that make learning come alive. Made with our magic formula, our games don’t require prior knowledge and can be completed in one class period. All games can be played in a variety of settings: 1-to-1, small groups, or whole class.
Videos
Introduce students to people and processes they need to know with short, purposeful videos. These videos can be embedded into lesson plans at any point to introduce a topic, start a discussion, or create a launchpad for research.
Infographics
Improve visual literacy skills and simplify complex civics concepts with logical, memorable, and interesting infographics. Infographics provide structure and design to concepts and help students see the big picture.
Simulations
Engage students with simulations that bring civics to life through media-rich, whole-class, collaborative experiences. Simulations, implemented across 1–2 class periods, use technology to facilitate student interaction, group work, and engagement.
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 questioning to guide students in primary source analysis.
WebQuests
Equip students to sort through and find online information with WebQuests. These carefully curated, inquiry-based activities break down a topic, offer resource links, and ask questions that help students make connections and infer.
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.
Not sure where to start?
Do I Have a Right?
Who Rules?
Students compare and contrast different forms of government, and look at real-life examples in the world today.
The Constitution: Rules for Running a Country
Find out why it was written, how it’s structured, what it does, and even how it can be changed.
We the People
Why iCivics is a place to start
With iCivics, you can focus on implementation, not development. Everything is off the shelf and ready to use, so you can take what you find here today and bring it into your classroom tomorrow. Our resources create an engaging space for learning.
Spanish & EL/ML Supports
Explore which resources are available with Spanish-language versions and English-language learning supports.
My iCivics LMS
Assign iCivics games and lesson plans to your students using the My iCivics LMS, available with your free account.
Integration tools
Assign games through single sign-on solutions, Google Classroom and Clever, or use Kami to allow students to annotate lessons.