MINI MEET A RESOURCE: Carrie Ray-Hill of iCivics

Your lesson, should you choose to accept it, is to consider a new resource: iCivics, a collection of online games and lesson plans to help students engage with American civics. The resource specialist assigned to help you with this task is Carrie Ray-Hill, Senior Director of Digital Learning.

 

In this episode we discuss:

1️⃣ How iCivics defines civics, its civic education mission and maintaining political neutrality

2️⃣ Helping teachers prepare for the 2020 election with games, lessons, info-graphics, webquests,  and a Facebook group

3️⃣ The future of iCivics, including adapting materials to distance learning

 

Click here for a more detailed description of our conversation, links mentioned in the episode, and more information about Lesson: Impossible.