Hello educators!
Civics 101 is excited to announce that our team of teachers (known as The Cabinet) has created lesson plans aligned to state standards to pair with our episodes.
FEATURED LESSON OF THE WEEK
David Olson has written a wonderful lesson plan on How a Bill (really) Becomes a Law. Students will examine a House Resolution from the 116th Congress and follow its path through legislation to learn about committees, lobbying, filibuster, and presidential actions.
The single greatest compliment Civics 101 can receive is that you use it in some way with your students. Whether it’s assigning episodes as a primer before class, listening to the show in class, entering our student contest, or (my personal favorite) having students put in headphones and take a walk; we want to do whatever we can to support you and your teaching.
We have created Graphic Organizers on which students can take notes while listening, offer timestamped transcripts for all episodes, and cut our more recent episodes into 3-7 minute segments for easier use in class. All of these are available on the page for each episode.
If you’ve had any success using the show in your classroom, we’d love to hear what you did so we can share it with others. Drop me an email anytime, nick@civics101podcast.org, and I promise we’ll get back to you. Furthermore, if any of you would be interested in contributing lesson plans paired with our episodes, please send us a message, we’d love to collaborate.
All the best, and thank you for all your work,
Nick