• Center for Politics - Youth Leadership Initiative - "YLI involves public and private schools from across the country in technology-based civics education projects and resources located on the YLI website at www.youthleadership.net."  At the University of Virginia.

• Center on Congress - "The central goal of the Center is to improve public understanding of Congress."  From Indiana University, Bloomington.
  
  
• CongressLink - "a 'classroom' friendly service for teachers and students of history, politics, civics, and related subjects in upper elementary schools through college who want to pursue the study of Congress as a springboard for learning activities related broadly to civic education." From the Dirksen Congressional Center
  
  
• Congress in the Classroom - "dedicated to the exchange of ideas and information on teaching about Congress, designed for secondary school teachers and junior and community college faculty who teach U.S. history, government civics, political science, or social studies." From the Dirksen Congressional Center

• Congressional Page Program - for high school juniors

• National Student/Parent Mock Election

• Presidential Classroom - for juniors and seniors in high school

• General Educational Sites

  • The U.S. House Of Representatives Educational Resources
    www.house.gov/house/Educate.html

  • Legislative Archives at NARA educational program
    www.archives.gov/records_of_congress/index.html

  • A Century of Lawmaking 1774-1873
    http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html

  • American Memory collection from the Library of Congress
    http://memory.loc.gov/ammem

  • Thomas Historical Documents
    http://lcweb2.loc.gov/const/mdbquery.html

  • Political graveyard
    http://politicalgraveyard.com/index.html#pe

Congressional Deskbook," by Michael Koempel and Judy Schneider. The complete guide to Congress.

Quick DC Links - Washington Essentials

URL: www.TheCapitol.Net/Recommended/teachresources.htm   Last updated: August 31, 2010