Plan with ASK iCivics
ASK iCivics is the best way to discover lessons, activities, and games that align with your instructional goals, organizing them into a structured sequence and streamlining your research and lesson development.
How to Use
1. Get started with a strong prompt
A strong prompt connects you to the exact resources you need even faster. Instantly unlock the entire iCivics ecosystem with ASK iCivics by simply selecting a prompt below, or use them as a guide to easily customize for your specific grade, topic, or learning needs.
2. Explore vetted, classroom-ready solutions
The same nonpartisan, high-quality, standards-aligned civics resources that you already trust, just easier to locate. ASK iCivics doesn’t pull random ideas from the open web, generate new curriculum, or introduce internet noise to your classroom.
3. Export the results
Take advantage of the Export or Print buttons at the top of the chat to save your lesson plans, outlines, and resources before closing your session! To protect your privacy and data, ASK iCivics does not save or remember your past chat history once you leave.
Find specific resources
Stop scrolling through endless search pages. ASK iCivics acts as a curriculum curator, intelligently scanning across all grade levels and units to uncover resources and activities that you may never have known existed.
Sample prompts to find specific resources:
I am teaching [Alabama standard SS24.US1.3] and need resources about [the influences of the founding fathers on the Declaration of Independence].
I am teaching about [the Executive Branch]. Find a supplemental resource that [helps explain the Presidential Cabinet].
I am [between units and want to connect my geography unit to my unit on Westward expansion]. What resources would best help with that?
Build lesson sequences
ASK iCivics goes beyond simply handing you a list of standalone resources. It expertly organizes resources and structures the pedagogy, intelligently mixing activity types, and building a logical multi-day sequence.
Sample prompts to find specific resources:
I want to cover the [three branches of government] over the next five days. Can you help identify relevant lessons and put them in a logical sequence?
I need a 3-lesson arc on the judicial branch for high school seniors. Please pull the most relevant lessons and suggest the order in which I should teach them to prepare them for a test.
Break down strategies
ASK iCivics adapts iCivics lessons and resources to the unique needs of diverse classrooms, highlighting available Spanish-language resources or guiding you to mini-lessons and activities you need to scaffold complex concepts and seamlessly adapt your instruction for students with IEPs or unique learning needs.
Sample prompts to find specific resources:
Analyze the [Anatomy of the Constitution] lesson and tell me how the activities and/or instructional strategies can be used with my MLLs.
I want my students to do a jigsaw activity on the [Constitution]. Give me 4 lessons about the Constitution that I can use. Each lesson should cover different standards.
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