- American Government Links
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- CURRENT EVENT LINKS
- ABC News On-Line
- CNN
- CNN Video Select
- MSNBC
- My News Home:America Online
- Yahoo! News
- BBC World News
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- RESEARCH ON THE INTERNET
- Webster's MLA Guide for Writing Research Papers
- Academic Libraries
- Conducting Research on the Internet
- Documents in the News has an extensive list of links to a plethora of publications. Topics range from affirmative action to the Arab-Israeli conflict to the death penalty to Indian/Pakistani nuclear tests to Whitewater. The emphasis of this site is on current events topics from 1995 to the present. This site is great for research purposes for both the teacher and students. A tremendous resource!
- Evaluation of Online Resources
- AMERICAN GOVERNMENT LINKS
- A Clear and Present Danger provides background information on freedom of speech, including the landmark Schenck v. US decision which established the clear and present danger test. This site provides activities for discussion and writing. A good, concise explanation of the parameter of the 1st Amendment.
Academy Curricular Exchange offers a long list of activities designed for the 7-12 classroom. Many Civics-related activities are available, includiing lessons on search and seizure law, voting, presidential campaigns and elections, and more. Check it out!
- American Presidents: Life Portraits provides a thumbnail of facts about our elected leaders. Select any president from Washington through Bush. Included are life facts, a letter from the president, and different facts in a Did You Know? column. A good source for the basics and some interesting tidbits on the presidents.
Anatomy of a Murder: A Trip Through Our Nation's Legal Justice System takes students through a fictonal murder trial. Students learn about grand juries, indictments and plea bargains. This was a 1996 entry for the ThinkQuest Internet Challenge.
http://library.thinkque
- Civnet is a webiste designed for civic education practitioners. The website contains links for news and events, resources for teachers (including lessons), journal articles and papers, and on online directory of civic education programs and organizations worldwide. A great resource for teachers to improve your instruction and knowledge.
- Chronology of the Federalist Anti Federalist Papers
- Congressional Website Links
- Cooperative Economics Article
- Excerpts from The Federalist Papers Excerpts from The Federalist Papers helps students understand the major themes of Federalist 10, 51 and 78. AB3086 specifies students will become acquainted with these major papers. This site provides excerpts from the papers along with a summary statement as to its meaning. Each page concludes with a discussion prompt to facilitate understanding and allow students to apply the principles to their own lives.
- Teach-nology is a website of various activities for grades K-12. Choose from a menu of activities for elections and voting, government, and general K-3, 3-6 or 7-12 social science lessons. Lessons contain objectives and step-by-step instructions. A great resource for the entire semester or year.
- Teaching Undergrads WEB Evaluation
- MacTuner:Global Media Receiver
- The History Guide
- Britannica Encyclopædia
- Encarta Encyclopædia
- Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism
- History Departments Around the World
- University Kansas Index of Resources for History Research
- Welcome to Founding.com
- Official Exective Branch Web Sites
- LSU Lbraries Federal Agency Directory
- USA Jobs.gov
- Welcome to the White House
- The Great American Web Site
- The Information Revolution: A Hypothetical Case gives students information on a Bureau of Information Control Act to use as the basis of a simulated congressional hearing. Supreme Court decisions on censorship as well as activities for disucssion and writing are provided.
- American History Portraits
- The American Historical Association
- Committee on Ways and Means
- House of Representatives Official Website
- United Staes House of Representatives
- Library of Congress: Country Studies
- National Archives and Records Administration Exhibit Hall -The National Archives and Records Administration Exhibit Hall has some tremendous exhibit and photos to use throughout the semester. The Charters of Freedom exhibit has photos and commentaries on the US Constitution and Bill of Rights. The Designs for Democracy has architectural and patent drawings on everything from the sewing machine to suspension bridges. The Powers of Persuasion--Posters from World War II includes 33 posters used during the war to rally the troops and illustrate Nazi brutality. An excellent site you will mine for months to come.
- Policy Options: The Aftermath of the September 11 Attacks provides students with a discussion of four different options the United States could follow following the World Trade Center bombings. Also included at the bottom of the page are links to a suggested lesson plan and responses from noted scholars. This lesson is a bit higher level and requires some advanced critical thinking.
US Politics: Current Events
- American Memory from the Library of Congress
- US Congress Page
- Shared Capitalist Institute: Demcoracy at Risk
- Thomas: US Congress on the Internet
- USA Index to Source Material
- Library of Congress Home Page
- Continental Congress & Constitutional Convention Broadsides Home Page
- Government (The Senate)-Making Government Friendly
- Library of Congress Official US Executive Branch Web Sites
- Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room
- Congress.org
- Library of Congress
- History rock- I'm Just a Bill
- I'm Just a Bill Lyrics
- 1689: English Bill of Rights
- Magna Carta
- ACLU: History of the Bill of Rights
- The US Bill of Rights
- The Legal Information Institute provides Supreme Court decisions in their entirety. While this activity takes a little work, teachers can reprint the summaries of Court decisions and have students discuss how they would rule. The teacher can then explain the Court's actual ruling and rationale. The page linked here is a topical guide to find decisions relevant to the topics being studied or to pair up to events in the news. A site you can mine time and time again.
- The Oklahoma Bar Association provides many lessons on law-related education. Select from over 40 topics including amendments, civil law, discrimination, First Amendment, human rights, juvenile law, search and seizure, student rights, and women's issues. Lessons are provided as PDF files. Another site you can use over and over again.
Federalist Papers, Declaration of Independence, and other Early Writings of the Republic
- Federalist Papers: Yale University
- Declaration of Independence
- The Flag of the United States of America
- Magna Carta
- The English Bill of Rights
- 1996-2001.
- TestingExcerpts from The Federalist Papers
- To Form a More Perfect Union-To Form a More Perfect Union is a special presentation that provides a summary of the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention along with art and active links to other sources within the Library of Congress. A great interactive site for students to explore and report on.
- California Courts:Reference:Resources
- California Legislature
- California Secretary of State - Elections Division
- Alexis de Tocqueville (Democracy Discussion)
- Alexis de Tocqueville
- The Republican National Committee
- The Democratic National Committee
- The National Civil Rights Museum
- Rememberin 9-11 Orange County Department of Education
- Supreme Court Collection Cornell University
- America Responds to Terrorism-Constitutional Rights Foundation
- Department of Justice for Kids and Youth
- Congressional Committees and the Legislative Process is a series of lessons in which students review the legislative process, research the committees and subcommittees of their elected officials, and present group reports on the jurisdictions of these committees and their representatives responsibilties.
- The US Constitution Power Grab Game is a fun game to play with your students who are separated into the three branches of government. The teacher calls out an unconstitutional power grab situation for one of the branches of government. The other two branches then have two minutes to find in the Constitution how it is unconstitutional, yell "check" and site the article, section and paragraph prohibiting that action. A great way for students to learn the US Constitution and the powers of the three federal branches of government.
- Constitutional Issues: Separation of Powers examines FDR's attempt to increase the number of justices on the US Supreme Court in 1937. This reading selection includes vocabulary terms used, questions to understand the main idea, discussion questions on the contitutional issues, prompts to think metaphorically about the issue and persuasion techniques used. In short, some back-to-basics as well as higher level critical reading.
- Who's the First Lady this site allows for students to conduct research and learn more about the First lady behing the president.
- Women and Social Movements in the United States Teacher's Corner provide seven lessons on various civil rights movements from woman's rights to birth control. Lesson plans contain further links on the civil rights movement studied.