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Becoming Active Citizens
Practices to Engage Students in Civic Education Across the Curriculum
How do you encourage active citizenship in the classroom? This innovative resource provides a practical approach for creating authentic, engaging learning experiences. Prepare students to participate in civic discourse while creating a positive classroom culture.
Benefits
- Learn how to transform civic education to prepare students to become active and engaged citizens.
- Discover how to weave civic instruction across the curriculum to create authentic, interdisciplinary projects.
- Explore games and other activities that enhance student engagement and understanding of civics.
- Receive lesson examples of effective civic instruction for various grade levels and subject areas.
- Understand how to create opportunities for teaching democratic values through productive civil discourse.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part 1: The State of Civic Education
Chapter 1: How Schools Provide Civic Education
Chapter 2: What Works in Civic Education
Part 2: Modern Civics in Action
Chapter 3: The Power of Action Civics and Authentic Experiences
Chapter 4: Engagement in Civil Discourse
Chapter 5: News Media Literacy for Combating Misinformation
Chapter 6: Engagement Through Digital Games and Competitions
Part 3: Civics Lessons Across Subject Areas
Chapter 7: Civics Lessons for Social Studies
Chapter 8: Civics Lessons for English Language Arts
Chapter 9: Civics Lessons for Science and Mathematics
Chapter 10: Interdisciplinary Civics Experiences
Epilogue
Suggested Resources
Books
- McLeod, S., & Shareski, D. (2017). Different schools for a different world. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
Websites
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
- Checkology
- InfoZones Lesson
- Democracy’s Watchdog Lesson
- Conspiratorial Thinking Lesson
- Generation Citizen
- iCivics
Chapter 3
- Project Citizen
- Mikva Challenge
- Student Voice Committee
- Elections in Action
- Issues to Action
- Flipgrid
- Google Meet
- Zoom
- Canva
- Adobe Express (formerly Adobe Spark)
- Google Drawings
- Unsplash
- Pixabay
- iMovie
- WeVideo
- Anchor
- Synth
- Audacity
- GarageBand
- Google Sites
- TikTok
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
- Informable
- iCivics
- The Center for Civic Education’s “We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution"
Chapter 7
- IDEO Design Thinking
- Stanford d.school Design Thinking
- Stanford d.school Design Thinking Facilitator’s Guide
- The Constitutional Rights Foundation’s Civic Action Project
- Student Slide Deck Example
- Wesberry v. Sanders Case Summary
- Oyez
Chapter 8
- Kahoot!
- Quizizz
- Socrative
- News Literacy Project
- Facing History and Ourselves
- Newsela
- News in Levels
- Literacy Ideas
- PolitiFact
- Jonathan Edwards's "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" Sermon
- American Rhetoric’s List of the 100 Greatest American Speeches
- USA.gov Elected Officials
- The History Place: Great Speeches Collection
Chapter 9
- Google Forms
- Nearpod
- Jamboard
- Padlet
- Pear Deck
- Kahoot!
- Mentimeter
- Google Sheets
- Adobe Express (formerly Adobe Spark)
- Canva for Education
Chapter 10

