Using iCivics Resources
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Using iCivics Resources
Scope & Sequences
Quickly find the perfect resource to meet your learning objectives. The Scope & Sequence documents are your guide to implementing iCivics resources in your classroom.
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.
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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.
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.
Private i History Detectives
Grow elementary students’ content knowledge and critical thinking skills with this K-5 curriculum that makes teaching social studies easy and fun. Students work together to solve each mystery and develop life-long inquiry skills.
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.
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Tips from Teachers
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From the Educator Blog
- Teaching with iCivics
Last September, I set a goal for myself: to find a game for every standard I teach. In other words, to gamify the entire school year. While 6th graders can’t vote—and they often feel that participating in civic life is something only their parents can do—games put them in the
- Teaching with iCivics
My main drive as an educator is to teach literacy as a way of understanding the world. My focus is not just reading and writing, but building literacy in how students navigate the internet, politics, and the world around them. It’s about vetting sources, understanding if what you’re reading is
- Teaching with iCivics
A few years ago, one of my colleagues invited Mary Beth Tinker to speak at our school—she was the student plaintiff in the landmark case Tinker v. Des Moines. It was an incredible experience to hear her calmly describe what it was like to participate in the case, recounting each
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