iCivics

This website is a online game where students are playing characters that apply our American civics to everyday life. There are several topics to play, such as news (fake news, hidden ads, etc.), immigration, the rights of the people, how countries work, and how the president works. There is another aspect of this website, and that is helping the teachers with resources on teaching the students these lessons. There are curriculum units of the foundations of government, the constitution, civil rights, the legislative branch, the judicial and executive branch, state and local governments, and many more. This resource is really cool in using for both the teachers and students. For the students, it gives them the virtual life of living these things out. Also, the students learn what their rights are and how to defend them.This resource is getting the students engage by playing these games like video games and earn points. My generation is addicted to games, especially video game. So for people to incorporate these lessons into games, it does a duel objective. For the teachers, there are so many resources on this site to help them teach their lesson. They can spend all day using all the different topics the site has to teach the students. This is heaven for social studies teachers.