Citizenship Toolkit Resource Directory II: Curriculum and Lessons
II. Other Citizenship Lessons
- Citizenship Curriculum for National Service Programs
- Civic Library
- Lesson Plans Related to
Historic American Documents
Citizenship Curriculum for National Service Programs
A Facilitator's Guide for "By the People"
The lessons within this guide draw on projects and programs implemented by AmeriCorps members. Classroom activities will introduce citizenship skills and concepts that AmeriCorps members can apply to their own projects in the field. Follow-up sessions will provide opportunity for reflection and evaluation as members report on how they applied citizenship concepts and skills they learned in the classroom. Developed by CHP International for the Corporation for National and Community Service.
A Guide to Effective Citizenship through AmeriCorps
This handbook is divided into ten two-hour modules based on four elements essential to active citizenship: knowledge, skills, attitudes, and action. Each module has two sessions: a content session provides activities to help members delve into the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of effective citizenship; an action session that guides members through a service project in their community. Developed by Constitutional Rights Foundation for the Corporation for National and Community Service.
Civic Library: Resources on Citizenship, Civics, Civic Education, Civic Engagement, and Law-Related Education available to borrow from the Resource Center lending library
- 250 Ways to Make America Better
- Active Citizenship Today Field Guide
- Active Citizenship Today: Handbook for High School Teachers
- Active Citizenship Today: Handbook for Middle School Teachers
- American Civil Rights: Primary Sources
- American Promise Teaching Guide
- Be a Global Force of One!
- Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
- By the People: Citizenship and National Service
- Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination
- Care and Community in Modern Society: Passing on the Tradition of Service to Future Generations
- Character Education in America's Schools
- Citizen Diplomacy: Responding to Questions About America
- Citizen Politics: Civic Storytelling
- Citizen Stories: Democracy and Responsibility in American Life
- Citizens in Service: The Challenge of Delivering Civic Engagement Training to National Service Programs
- Civic Engagement Survey
- Communities in Trouble: Reaching for Solutions (Spanish Version)
- Congress: How a Bill Becomes a Law
- Contemporary's Look at the U.S.: Book 1
- Contemporary's Look at the U.S.: Book 2
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Education for Civic Engagement in Democracy: Service Learning and Other Promising Practices
- Educational Principles for AmeriCorps Training
- Expanding Boundaries: Building Civic Responsibility within Higher Education
- Facilitator's Guide for By the People
- A Guide to Effective Citizenship through AmeriCorps
- Family-Friendly Volunteering
- Guide for the Powerless: A Primer on the American Political Process
- Hearts and Minds Engaged: Teaching Law-Related Education through Service Learning
- Journal of Public Service and Outreach Volume 2, Number 1: Service Learning
- Light One Candle
- Making a Difference Colleges: Distinctive Colleges to Make a Better World
- Net Activism: How Citizens Use the Internet
- Power Surge Leadership
- Prime Time: How Baby-Boomers Will Revolutionize Retirement and Transform America
- Protegiendo Nuestras Cuencas Hidrologicas
- Reinventing Citizenship: The Practice of Public Work
- Resolving Conflict: Activities for Grades K-3
- Route to Reform: Service-Learning and School Improvement Video and Curriculum Book
- Service to Citizenship: Engaging AmeriCorps Members as Active Citizens
- Service-Learning as ‘Citizenship’ Education: The Promise and the Puzzles
- Service Learning: Curriculum, Standards and the Community
- Sharing and Learning: Partners' Service Across the Curriculum
- Snapshot of Internet Innovation: Using e-Philanthropy to Expand Volunteering, Giving and Community Building
- Spanish Materials Gathered for AmeriCorps' Members Training Seminars
- Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice
- Teen Power Politics: Make Yourself Heard
- Toward a Civil Society: Civic Literacy and Service Learning
- We the People...Project Citizen
- Writing the Ties that Bind: Service-Learning in the Writing Classroom
- You Got to Move
Online Documents Related to Civics
- A Facilitator's Guide for "By the People" CHP International
- A Guide to Effective Citizenship through AmeriCorps Constitutional Rights Foundation
- The Challenge of Delivering Civic Engagement Training to National Service Programs (PDF)
- Resource Guide to Civic Engagement (PDF) City Cares Atlanta
Lesson Plans Related to Historic American Documents
Bill of Rights in Action
Many lessons on U.S. history, world history, and government from Bill of Rights in Action, Constitutional Rights Foundation's quarterly curricular newsletter. We have published this extensive resource since 1967, and we continually add to the archive.
Civitas Resources
A compilation of constitution and democracy-related information from organizations including Streetlaw and the Center for Civic Education.
Dirksen Congressional Center
Unit and lesson plans prepared by teachers using CongressLink resources and features. This section also includes simulations. The plans are organized by subject
Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)
Civic lesson plans by topic.
Institute for Civic Values
This organization offers lesson plans, discussion guides, and resources for improving adult civic literacy.
Library of Congress Lesson Plans
Lessons organized by theme, discipline, and era. Includes the following lessons on civics and government:
- All History Is Local
- Conservation at a Crossroads
- The Constitution: Counter Revolution or National Salvation?
- Explorations
- In Congress Assembled
- Indian Boarding Schools: Civilizing the Native Spirit
- Our Changing Voices
- Reservation Controversies
National Archives
A variety of resources including online documents, instructional support, and "teaching with documents" lesson plans.
New York Times Learning Network Daily Lesson Plan Archive
The archive contains hundreds of free lesson plans. You may perform a keyword search to retrieve a lesson, browse the archive by subject, or scroll down the page to view the most recently published lessons.
- New York Times Learning Network: Civics Lessons
- New York Times Learning Network: American History Lessons
- New York Times Learning Network: Social Studies Lessons
PBS Teachers
Over 3,500 lesson plans and activities from the Public Broadcasting System, including lessons on:
