Posted in 21st century skills, civics, constitution, democracy, election, government, history, lesson plans, middle school, politics, social studies, tagged civics, government, history tech, lesson plans, politics, social studies, supreme court, wiebe on September 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, together with iCivics, Arizona State University an Georgetown University, have put together a handy site for teachers of government and civics. Called Our Courts, the site hosts a couple of online sims, links to lessons and videos and fictional situations that help kids understand their own constitutional rights.
Our Courts is web-based [...]
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Posted in assessment, civics, democracy, government, history, politics, primary sources, social studies, tagged civics, government, history, history tech, immigration, test, wiebe on September 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Do you have what it takes to be a US citizen?
Part of the process of becoming a naturalized American citizen involves taking a multiple choice test administered by an Immigration Services officer.
Can you pass?
Press photograph from the Library of Congress George Grantham Bain collection
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Posted in civics, constitution, current events, democracy, election, government, history, lesson plans, politics, social studies, tip of the week, tagged civics, constitution, constitution day, current events, government, history, history tech, lesson plans, politics, social studies, wiebe on September 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Constitution Day is an American federal holiday that recognizes the ratification of the United States Constitution and also recognizes all who have become citizens due to either coming of age or naturalization. It is always observed on September 17, the day the U.S. Constitutional Convention signed the Constitution in 1787. The law establishing the holiday [...]
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Posted in civics, constitution, current events, democracy, lesson plans, news, politics, tagged civics, cspan, government, history, history tech, lesson plans, politics, wiebe on June 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s free. Totally free.
The C-SPAN bus has pulled into the Dakota Wesleyan University here in Mitchell, SD for the Laptop Leaders Academy and I’m learning tons. (And, of course, we had to take the bu tour!)
C-SPAN, the non-partisan cable channel, has hundreds of useful government and civic resources available for free. But what you may [...]
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Posted in Video, democracy, government, politics, social studies, technology integration, youtube, tagged civics, democracy, government, history tech, politics, social studies, Video, wiebe, youtube on May 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It was about seven years ago when the US government made an early attempt to consolidate its online resources in one place. Other than its clunky name – firstgov.gov – it was a pretty useful tool.
That site has moved on to usa.gov and has become even more helpful. But the government folks have stepped it [...]
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