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Digital Civics Toolkit
For teachers looking to make civics relevant to students, there's nothing else out there as extensive or relevant.
Social Studies
Creation Tool
DocsTeach
This text-rich app encourages students to conduct their own analysis of history, but the formats and graphics may prevent them from making a thorough analysis.
Social Studies
Google Arts & Culture
A beautifully presented one-stop shop for compellingly curated and contextualized art, history, and culture resources, but it's lacking educator supports.
Social Studies
Presentation
Teaching Resources
OER Project
A stellar program for exploring foundational concepts in history, humanities, critical thinking, and science with tons of support for teachers.
Science
Social Studies
Project-Based
Geoguessr
Game-based platform can get kids interested in world geography and expose them to different cultures on a surface level.
Social Studies
Interactive Learning
When Rivers Were Trails
Offers a valuable alternative perspective to the colonial history found in U.S. classrooms, through a familiar, Oregon Trail-style format.
Social Studies
AI Tool
Little Alchemy 2
This amusing puzzle game encourages creativity, perseverance, and systems thinking, and with creative integration it can build interest in math, science, history, and literature.
Mathematics
Science
Social Studies
Barefoot World Atlas
Dive right in to world geography with a beautiful, interactive globe full of narratives and photos of different cultures and traditions.
Social Studies
Interactive Learning
Stack the States 2
This is a clear go-to if you're looking to help students memorize state locations, shapes, capitals, history, and more.
Social Studies
Facing History and Ourselves
These valuable materials empower students to understand and address difficult ethical choices -- past and present.
Social Studies
Presentation
Teaching Resources
National Museum of African American History and Culture
While there aren't ready-to-go curricular materials, this modern, well-curated, and well-contextualized digital collection is sure to inspire compelling lessons.
Social Studies
Teaching Resources
EDSITEment
The National Endowment for the Humanities has put together an outstanding place for art, history, language, and literature.
Language Arts
Social Studies
Collaboration
Ford's Theatre
This site can support meaningful, primary source-driven examination of some of the most important events in U.S. history, but educators will need to dig a little.
Social Studies
A History of Ideas
These philosophy podcasts and videos offer entertaining introductions to key concepts and thinkers, but require some smart lesson planning for deeper learning.
Social Studies
AI Tool
Planning
Smithsonian's History Explorer
This is a handy resource that, with some effort, will uncover resources for kick-starting curious learning.
Social Studies
Teaching Resources
Inquiry-Based
National Archives
NARA's website wasn't designed for kids, but they can definitely use it to research and learn about history, genealogy, and the U.S. population and government.
Social Studies
Creation Tool
Inquiry-Based
Annenberg Classroom
Go for the videos, stay for the lessons: Annenberg Classroom saves teachers' prep time when teaching the Constitution, current events, or other civics lessons.
Social Studies
Multimedia
iCivics
This game-based curriculum would be an excellent addition to any secondary social studies.
Social Studies
Interactive Learning
Teaching Resources
Zinn Education Project
Free downloadable resources encourage critical thinking and active learning in search of a more accurate picture of American history.
Social Studies
Teaching Resources
Project-Based