Political Science Now

JULY 29, 2024

The workshop aims to provide a space where scholars and practitioners with a commitment to civic engagement can collaborate, build supportive relationships, and share practical guidance for leading community-engaged projects. The workshop will culminate with NCAPSA’s brief annual business meeting and a celebratory reception.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

MAY 31, 2024

Teaching civics and government is different from teaching history—it really requires a different set of go-to lesson ideas and projects. So, if you are brand new to the subject and need to know everything about how to teach civics, or you’re struggling to find ways to go beyond the textbook, welcome!

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Dangerously Irrelevant

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Our new information landscape requires citizens and workers who are fluent with technology tools and online environments and is reshaping how we learn, interact, gain the attention of others, and engage in civic togetherness. Download this image: keynote , powerpoint , png , jpg. What are we waiting for? Related Posts.

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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

A more balanced instructional approach fosters critical thinking, problem-solving, and civic awareness, preparing students for academic success and beyond. By shifting from a test-prep-driven approach to one that incorporates social studies- and science-based literacy strategies, schools can improve student outcomes across subjects.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

OCTOBER 13, 2023

I can’t imagine teaching civics and government without political cartoons—they are essential to the subject. Then, download your FREE lesson kit to get started. Then, download your FREE lesson kit to get started. Head over to my blog post, How to Teach Political Cartoons , where I detail the POPES process I’ve used for years.

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Passion for Social Studies

JANUARY 18, 2024

” Sending emails, weekly newsletters, or using the school phone to communicate are great communication alternatives if they cannot download one of these apps. Add to cart Civics and American Government Course $ 125.00 Parents love to receive different forms of positive communication.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The exercise was part of “Civic Online Reasoning,” a series of news-literacy lessons being developed by Stanford researchers and piloted by teachers at a few dozen schools. The group also created a free, digital curriculum called “Reading Like a Historian” that’s been downloaded more than three million times, according to Wineburg. “We

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Digital Promise

APRIL 23, 2019

Prioritize sessions that were most relevant to my work—that is, engaging adults in online and blended learning paradigms—and download collaborative notes (with presentation slides and speaker info) from the sessions I couldn’t attend. The solution? Different Flavors of Digital Inclusion Programming.

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Students of History

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

If you're a US History teacher looking for PDF worksheets for your high school or middle school classroom, I have tons to share, including this 30+ page packet of free engaging assignments you can download and start using right away. If you're curious what these lessons look like, you can download some free lesson plans here.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 7, 2024

Instructor : Titus Alexander has four decades of experience in civic education, engagement, and advocacy at a local, national, and international level. He currently teaches an advanced apprenticeship in Campaigning, Leadership and Management for Britain’s biggest trade union.

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Students of History

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

It could be Civics, World, or US History. You can see that each lesson includes a number of downloadable resources in addition to the lesson itself. The downloadable materials include printable worksheets with answer keys, station activities, projects, and anything else you or the students need for the lesson.

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Students of History

AUGUST 12, 2021

You can preview and download any of them through the links below, but here are the major updates and changes: 1. With the move to fully-digital, however, a few things started to pop up that inspired me to redesign the notebooks. This redesign turned into a complete overhaul of all my digital notebook sets this summer.

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ACRE

APRIL 15, 2024

These units can be embedded into existing history, civics, and government units to incorporate economic topics or used in economics classes to present historical case studies of economics in action. Download Election of 1932 Lesson Plan Learn more: Looking for more lesson plans & activities for teaching about economic history?

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 12, 2023

At Teaching American History, we know teachers are hungry for resources that help their students understand the nuances of American civic behavior. Download your free copy here. For secondary and post-secondary government and political science educators, we are proud to recommend our CDC volume, Religious Liberty: Core Court Cases.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2021

After learning about virus biology, immune response and past pandemics, more than 100 students and staff downloaded an app that tracked a virtual virus. Brown crafted civics lessons about outbreak response for his eighth graders at Sarasota Military Academy Prep, a charter middle school. We were really amazed by that.”

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

JANUARY 4, 2024

There’s no teaching civics and government without a lesson on how a bill becomes a law, but it’s one that’s often left to verbalizing the steps and displaying a flowchart. Below, I share my lesson sequence for teaching how Congress passes bills into law in my high school Civics and Government class.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

million in state funds for a three-year pilot that would incorporate labor history in civics, economics and history classes, along with simulations like those run by the DePaul center. Some 75,000 teachers to date have signed up to download its materials, including the lessons on labor, said Deborah Menkart, co-director of the Zinn project.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

Or march to a local civic building. We offer instructions and downloadable materials to create a pop-up Teach Banned Books display. Download and open the slides. Download and open the slides. PREPARE MATERIALS AND MORE FOR THE DAY OF ACTION Make signs or download them , from this graphics toolkit. Walking tours.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 2, 2025

Find an event near you and show up Go to a historic site and take a photo with a Teach Truth sign that you make or download. Or march to a local civic building. We offer instructions and downloadable materials to create a pop-up Teach Banned Books display. See photos and stories about the D.C. events in 2021 , 2022 , and 2023.

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Living Geography

DECEMBER 4, 2024

ERASMUS+ is sadly no more, but I've started working on a project which is funded by the Civics Innovation Hub. The key target groups will be teachers and educators, teaching the transition years from high school to university education as well as NGOs and agencies working in civic education.

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TCI

OCTOBER 28, 2024

According to the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) , social studies is the integrated study of social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence. At its core, social studies aims to equip students with the knowledge and skills needed to actively participate in civic affairs.

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