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Kids' Guides to How Government Works and Getting Involved as a Citizen

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Ben's Guide - A government printing office project that explains how the U.S. government works by grade level.

Center for Civic Education - "We the People-Citizen and Constitution" Curriculum includes simulations of congressional hearing for K-12 and a competition. "We the People-Project Citizen" is a civic education program for middle school students that promotes competent and responsible participation in state and local government and also leads to a competition. Several other projects are described on this page.

Civics Online Project - This is a Michigan State University project whose aim is to improve the teaching of civics. This site includes resources for teachers and students by grade level.

Congress for Kids - Uncle Sam guides students on a tour where they will learn about the 13 colonies, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution, the three branches of government, the Bill of Rights, and more.

History and Politics Out Loud - This is a searchable archive of politically significant audio files that have been engineered for use online.

Project Vote - The project's objectives are to make the voting procedures easy to understand and to encourage students to make informed decisions.

Texas Senate Kids - Capital tour, "Senator Madlibs." Texas Trivia with a teacher's guide.

Tolerance Web Site - A Web project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Tolerance.org encourages people form all walks of life to "fight have and promote tolerance."

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