Berkeley Compendium of Suggestions for Teaching with Excellence 

This compendium was contributed by members of the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley.  Most of the suggestions were gathered from recipients of the Distinguished Teaching Award given annually by the Academic Senate Committee on Teaching.

Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (Iowa State University) 

Provides online teaching resources that help instructors and academic units develop, implement, and assess instructional approaches and methods.

C-SPAN in the Classroom 

This is a service that offers information and resources to assist educators in their use of primary sources and public affairs videos from C-SPAN television.

Case Program (Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government) 

This is a large repository of case studies designed for teaching about how government works, how public policy is made, and how nonprofit organizations operate.

Choices Education Program: Curriculum Resources (Brown University) 

Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University provides curricular resources, professional development workshops and special projects, CHOICES engages secondary level students in international issues and contributes to a renewal of civic engagement among young people in the United States.

The Chronicle of Higher Education: The Faculty

Links to The Chronicle website's teaching pages.

Congress in the Classroom Online 

Do you teach social studies, American government, American history, or civics? Are your lessons about the U.S. Congress out of date? Is it hard to engage your students in learning about the House and Senate?  Congress in the Classroom® Online will help you understand today's Congress and suggest ways to teach about it. The self-paced online course is organized around the twin responsibilities of Congress members: representation and lawmaking. There are more than a dozen individual units on such topics as "What Makes for Effective Members of Congress?" "How Representative is the Membership of Congress?" and "Lawmaking: Understanding the Basics."   (From the Dirksen Center.)

Digital Classroom

This site features the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration teaching resources, including documents, images, teaching-focused lesson resources, and a wide variety of resources of interest to  teaching professionals. 

Dirksen Congressional Leadership Research Center 

A non-partisan, not-for-profit organization seeks to "improve civic engagement by promoting a better understanding of Congress and its leaders through archival, research, and educational programs." Includes sections on Congress in the Classroom Online, Congress for students, and a newsletter for educators.

Electronic Hallway Teaching Network 

An online repository of teaching cases and other curriculum materials for faculty who teach public administration, public policy, and related subjects includes cases in several policy areas; economic development, education, environment and land use, human services, international affairs, nonprofit, state and local government issues, utility and transit issues, and urban and regional issues.  Hallway cases include teaching notes, and several have video of cases being taught by experienced teachers.

Frontline Teacher's Center (PBS) 

Site offers lesson plans and teaching materials for middle and high school teachers of government, civics, and current events.

Globalization101.org 

Globalization101.org is a website for teaching college students about the policy aspects of globalization related to civics, economics and geography. A project of the non-partisan and non-profit Center for Strategic & International Studies, Globalization101.org provides unbiased, easily understandable information and related lesson plans to teach about cross-disciplinary subjects such as international trade, global health and environmental issues, and international institutions and global technological changes. The site includes: issue briefs, news analyses, teachers' resource section, video interviews with experts in the field and useful links. 

Go Wayback (PBS)

This is a kid-friendly U.S. history site, produced by PBS, as part of the American Experience programming. It includes teaching resources on the history of U.S. Presidents.

History Matters

Designed for high school and college teachers of U.S. History courses, this site "serves as a gateway to Web resources and offers useful materials for teaching U.S. history."

ICONS Project (University of Maryland) 

The ICONS Project is a high school and university-level experiential learning program that uses customized Web-based tools to support educational simulations and simulation-based training to put students in the role of decision-makers - resolving current policy issues.

Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance 

This site presents resources for exploring world democracy issues and facts.  This links to their section on global participation statistics (voter turnout).

Legislative Simulation  

Legislative Simulation, or LEGSIM, features a non-scripted environment for college-level students to experience the personalized politics of legislative activities.

Model General Assembly of the Organization of American States

A simulation of the real OAS General Assembly in which the students "represent" the OAS Member States, and advocate the interests and policies of their assigned countries.

Model United Nations Headquarters     
Model United Nations  (partial list of groups affiliated with MUN)

A simulation of the United Nations General Assembly and related multilateral bodies for high school- and university-level students worldwide.

 NY Times Learning Network 

A resource for teachers of grades 3 through 12 that includes lesson plans, daily quizzes, education news, etc.

Public Agenda 

This site provides online resources including research studies and issue guides produced by an unbiased, objective quarter-century old organization of the same name.

Teaching Democracy

Sponsored by the Pennsylvania Center for Civic Life, this website is "an online meeting place and resource center for people interested in sharing what they know about deliberative democracy in a creative setting that promotes and values experimentation."

Teaching Tips and Help (Nebraska-Lincoln)

Contains helpful information for new teachers on a Graduate Student Development website.

Toolkit: The Course Assessment Cycle (George Washington University)

The website assists in providing a framework for setting course goals and objectives, developing strategies for course assessment, implementing a course assessment plan and using course assessment data. 

The Professor's Tookit - Assists educators teaching about voting systems.