Bill of Rights Institute - lessons, activities and videos for civics, history and government

Center for Civic Education - resources for teaching the Constitution, voting  and elections

iCivics - this site has a section with games and videos as well as a resources for teaching civics

Maine League of Women Voters  - Resources on voting, youth voting, elections tailored to Maine

Ford's Theatre  - Resources from Ford's Theatre to engage students in founding documents and from the Civil War era.

National Council for the Social Studies - lessons, essays, videos and primary sources resources for grades K-12 can be accessed by members

PBS Learning Media - provides various types of learning resources by grade level and type

Smithsonian Institution - resources and learning labs for K-12

BillBoard - BillBoard is a nonprofit, free, nonpartisan tool that helps students track U.S. Congress bills with plain-English summaries, live bill status, vote tallies, topic filters, saved bills, and representative contact workflows. Teachers can use it for current-events assignments, legislative research, issue tracking, debates, and lessons on how federal policy moves through Congress.

Kids in the House - provides activities and lessons about the legislative branch for young learners

Generation Citizen - Empowering youth in our democracy through community-based civics.  Ideas, resources, and lesson plans for the learning of “civic responsibility” and skills through “action civics”. 

Educating for American Democracy - Well-planned learning units for all grade levels with lesson plans, materials, videos; designed to make civics instruction more hands-on and immediately relevant. 

Teaching Civics: A Civic Education Project from Learning Law and Democracy - A variety of activities emphasizing civic skills and how they work in our democratic decision-making system; some are teacher-made materials.

EDC [Education Development Corporation] - Access to a broad range of resources and methods with worldwide application. See “Our Work” – “Learn” – “Vital Civic Empowerment”

Active Civics and Why It’s Important, Graham and Weingarten (AFT) - See resources embedded here.