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"For progressive educators who want to actively engage their students in learning about government, law, economics, or citizenship, the Civic Mirror brings these subjects to life both in class and online. Unlike traditional textbook and lecture learning, the Civic Mirror actively involves students as citizens of their own nation, making learning exciting and meaningful and providing an experience they will never forget."

This looks VERY interesting! Teaching civics or government you might want to check this out!

Teacher showing The Civic Mirror http://bit.ly/hwZ8Vg Kids can create their own nations. Cool. #plpnetwork

"iCivics is a non-profit organization dedicated to reinvigorating civic learning through interactive and engaging learning resources. Our educational resources empower teachers and prepare the next generation of students to become knowledgeable and engaged citizens. Founded and led by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, iCivics provides students with the tools they need for active participation and democratic action, and teachers with the materials and support to achieve this. Our free resources include print-and-go lesson plans, award-winning games, and digital interactives. The iCivics games place students in different civic roles and give them agency to address real-world problems and issues. They are rooted in clear learning objectives and integrated with lesson plans and support materials. iCivics curriculum is grouped into topical units that align to state and Common Core standards. "

"iCivics prepares young Americans to become knowledgeable, engaged 21st century citizens by creating free and innovative educational materials. In 2009, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor founded iCivics to reverse Americans' declining civic knowledge and participation. Securing our democracy, she realized, requires teaching the next generation to understand and respect our system of governance. Today iCivics comprises not just our board and staff, but also a national leadership team of state supreme court justices, secretaries of state, and educational leaders and a network of committed volunteers. Together, we are committed to passing along our legacy of democracy to the next generation."

Great list- also check out cybraryman's list of government sites- http://www.cybraryman.com/government.html and his site for the constitution http://www.cybraryman.com/constitution.html

lots of civics games

games for citizenship

"The State Bar of Texas' Law-Related Education Department has created Oyez, Oyez, Oh Yay!, an engaging and interactive site geared toward helping students (and their teachers) explore the court decisions that have helped shape our country and the state of Texas - and, most important, how these decisions have affected our everyday lives."

Although this is for texas students there are lots of good resources for everyone.

Links to many different history websites from presidential libraries to games to social studies blogs and so much more!

"Scholastic's Election 2012 is a nice set of resources through which elementary and middle school students can learn about various aspects of the 2012 Presidential Election. Election 2012 prominently features student-friendly artcles about the Republican primaries and caucuses. ."

Site has special sections for teachers and students. Includes lesson plans, ideas for integrating current events, and other resources.

Game that helps kids learn about their rights. A little juvenile, but could have some applications.

The Kean University Library online database that houses the publications of non-profit organizations which focus on New Jersey public policy issues. This collection allows users to access these documents from one centralized, easy to use location. The texts of the documents are fully searchable and are catalogued with subject headings similarly to a book in a library. This collection allows users to access a variety of publications pertaining to economic growth, education, social justice, health care, and criminal justice. This fully searchable database is compiled of files derived from a variety of non-profit organizations from across the state of New Jersey in an effort to provide information on policy reform and solutions for researchers and the public as a whole to make use of.

lesson plans on many different topics and subjects

lots of resources here

list of sites for study of history

"A New Nation Votes is a searchable collection of election returns from the earliest years of American democracy. The data were compiled by Philip Lampi. The American Antiquarian Society and Tufts University Digital Collections and Archives have mounted it online for you with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities."

check out election returns from 1787 to 1825. Searchable by year, candidate, office or state

organized by subject