The following list of websites contain materials to help teachers as they incorporate civics into their teaching practice. If you are looking for how these resources hit certain civic content and inquiry skills, check out our pages organized by content and skill!
Check out our Kentucky-specific civics inquiries below.
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What symbol best represents Kentucky?
This inquiry asks students to examine the power of symbols in relation to Kentucky values. The compelling question—What symbol best represents Kentucky?—asks students to consider different Kentucky values and how people communicate those values to others. |
How should statues represent Kentucky?
The compelling question—How should statues represent Kentucky?—asks students to consider the message and impact that statues can have on the public as powerful cultural symbols that represent (and reinforce) the values of specific Kentuckians throughout U.S. History. |
C3Teachers
Provides a searchable database of inquiries that focuses curriculum around Questions, Tasks, and Sources in the Inquiry Design Model (IDM).
Discovering Justice
Provides free lesson plan resources that have students examine the workings of the justice system, and explore ways to promote social justice.
Kid Citizen
Provides interactive lesson resources that focus on exploring civics concepts through primary sources that contextualizes civics to students’ daily lives.
iCivics
Provides a wide range of fully-packaged lesson plans, and civics-based games, for educators to access/supplement their civics curriculum.
PBS LearningMedia
Provides interactive lessons and classroom-friendly video clips aligned with specific civics topics.
Facing History and Ourselves
Provides resources address to help teachers unpack racism, antisemitism, and prejudice at pivotal moments in history; focuses on students connecting choices made in the past to those they will confront in their own lives.
Generation Citizen
Provides resources (and opportunities) for students’ to directly engage with civic institutions in their community to exercise their civic power/voice.
Town Hall Project
Provides a resource for easily seeing opportunities for students to engage in civics-based community events.
Constitutional Rights Foundation
Provides classroom-ready lessons that focus on constitutional principles and the bill of rights.
Kids Voting
Provides easily implemented, interactive lessons (and mock elections) to encourage students to be a lifelong voter.
Democratic Knowledge Project
Provides inquiry-aligned student projects that scaffolds students towards taking civic action in their community.
New American History
Provides free, primary-sourced based resources to teach about the construction, structure, and meaning of the US constitution.
Kentucky Humanities - Think History
Provides free instruction-friendly videos documenting the experiences of Kentuckians (from “every walk of life”) to bolster community relationships.
Kentucky Humanities - Vote Worthy
Provides a collection of classroom resources to help teachers instruct students about the importance, and structure, of voting in our nation.
Be a Citizen
Provides instructor resources (from lesson plans to project ideas) to implement a C3-aligned civics curriculum.
The Right Question Institute
Provides instructional resources and strategies to help bolster students interest, and ability to communicate and engage in meaningful civic inquiry.
CNN 10
Provides classroom-friendly news summaries (10 minutes) for students.
Learning for Justice
Provides classroom resources to encourage a justice-oriented civics curriculum with the focus of resources to advance the human rights of all people.
Read Inquire Write
Provides middle school resources to help students’ inquiry skills and argument writing (including multiple supports for English learners).
Stanford History Education Group
Provides research-backed teaching strategies and classroom resources that are all aligned to inquiry principles.
Mikva Challenge
Provides instructional resources to teachers so that they can encourage students to use their political voice for positive, meaningful changes in their communities.
Teaching for Democracy Alliance
Provides classroom-ready resources to teach about elections, and specifically, the importance of voting from an informed position.
Provides a searchable database of inquiries that focuses curriculum around Questions, Tasks, and Sources in the Inquiry Design Model (IDM).
Discovering Justice
Provides free lesson plan resources that have students examine the workings of the justice system, and explore ways to promote social justice.
Kid Citizen
Provides interactive lesson resources that focus on exploring civics concepts through primary sources that contextualizes civics to students’ daily lives.
iCivics
Provides a wide range of fully-packaged lesson plans, and civics-based games, for educators to access/supplement their civics curriculum.
PBS LearningMedia
Provides interactive lessons and classroom-friendly video clips aligned with specific civics topics.
Facing History and Ourselves
Provides resources address to help teachers unpack racism, antisemitism, and prejudice at pivotal moments in history; focuses on students connecting choices made in the past to those they will confront in their own lives.
Generation Citizen
Provides resources (and opportunities) for students’ to directly engage with civic institutions in their community to exercise their civic power/voice.
Town Hall Project
Provides a resource for easily seeing opportunities for students to engage in civics-based community events.
Constitutional Rights Foundation
Provides classroom-ready lessons that focus on constitutional principles and the bill of rights.
Kids Voting
Provides easily implemented, interactive lessons (and mock elections) to encourage students to be a lifelong voter.
Democratic Knowledge Project
Provides inquiry-aligned student projects that scaffolds students towards taking civic action in their community.
New American History
Provides free, primary-sourced based resources to teach about the construction, structure, and meaning of the US constitution.
Kentucky Humanities - Think History
Provides free instruction-friendly videos documenting the experiences of Kentuckians (from “every walk of life”) to bolster community relationships.
Kentucky Humanities - Vote Worthy
Provides a collection of classroom resources to help teachers instruct students about the importance, and structure, of voting in our nation.
Be a Citizen
Provides instructor resources (from lesson plans to project ideas) to implement a C3-aligned civics curriculum.
The Right Question Institute
Provides instructional resources and strategies to help bolster students interest, and ability to communicate and engage in meaningful civic inquiry.
CNN 10
Provides classroom-friendly news summaries (10 minutes) for students.
Learning for Justice
Provides classroom resources to encourage a justice-oriented civics curriculum with the focus of resources to advance the human rights of all people.
Read Inquire Write
Provides middle school resources to help students’ inquiry skills and argument writing (including multiple supports for English learners).
Stanford History Education Group
Provides research-backed teaching strategies and classroom resources that are all aligned to inquiry principles.
Mikva Challenge
Provides instructional resources to teachers so that they can encourage students to use their political voice for positive, meaningful changes in their communities.
Teaching for Democracy Alliance
Provides classroom-ready resources to teach about elections, and specifically, the importance of voting from an informed position.