Civics
- A New Generation of Fighters: People who have made a difference in civil rights and on how students can make a difference with ideas for a unit on the subject
- American Bar Association Division for Public Education: Religion, law, and the First Amendment
- Ben's Guide to Government for kids
- Center for Civic Education
- Chan Nobles Virtual Law Library: Find the current constitutions of many nations
- Closeup Foundation, hosts trips to Washington, D.C., has many other programs, and produces quality publications for citizenship education
- CongressLink: Has lesson plans and authentic problem-solving student activities and other activities related to lawmaking, checks and balances, and more.
- Constitutional Rights Foundation
- Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago has a number of activities social studies teachers might want to consider.
- Copurnicus Education Gateway: Elections
- Courts to Classes designed by the Federal judiciary as a resource for teachers and students.
- Education World: Lessons dealing with documents of freedom
- Federal Government: Resources of relevance to teachers of all subjects
- FindLaw: Navigate to all sorts of law-related topics, including the law in the states (see Missouri), the United States, other nations; proposed legislation; Supreme Court decisions; a variety of topics, such as family law, business law, immigration law; etc.
- First Amendment website
- Gov Spot
- Kids Voting
- League of Women Voters
- The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA): Results of a cross-national study that examined the civic knowledge, engagement, and attitudes of 14 year-old students in 28 democratic countries
- The National Assessment of Educational Progress
- Triune Arts: Conflict resolution
- United States Institute of Peace: Sponsors an annual essay contest dealing with some issue exploring a peace-related issue. From a social studies assessment perspective, the peace essay is a nice model for an authentic assessment accompanied by a scoring guide.
- United States Supreme Court
- World Flag Database: The flags of the world