Each week throughout the school year, the C-SPAN Classroom team and our Classroom Community members develop new resources highlighting current events, popular issues, and public policy discussions alongside new instructional materials that cover history, government, economics, and other topical areas. Below is a sampling of the newest resources available at C-SPAN Classroom. For the latest resources and updates, make sure to follow us on Facebook and Twitter/X.
Newest Instructional Resources from C-SPAN’s “America’s Book Club”
C‑SPAN’s America’s Book Club is a weekly primetime series hosted by acclaimed author, civic leader, and interviewer David M. Rubenstein. Recorded at some of the nation’s most iconic libraries and cultural landmarks — including the Library of Congress, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the National Archives — America’s Book Club brings viewers into lively, thought-provoking conversations with leading authors, policymakers, business innovators, and cultural figures. Each week, the program explores the ideas that have shaped our nation’s past, challenge its present, and inspire its future.
Check out the following brand-new instructional resources from the series! For all of the video clips, bell ringers, and lesson plans from America’s Book Club, visit our America’s Book Club Featured Resources site.
Review Series: U.S. Government and AP U.S. Government & Politics
This week, we continue our review series with our resources covering all things U.S. government, both for traditional courses and for the AP course. Explore each resource using the links below, and don’t forget to bookmark your favorites!
Legislative Branch: Resources categorized by legislative structure, process and current/historical examples.
Executive Branch: Resources organized into categories such as presidential powers, roles, current/historical examples and the federal bureaucracy.
Judicial Branch and Supreme Court Cases: Featuring resources organized by judicial structure, process and history. This section also includes resources on landmark Supreme Court cases.
Linkage Institutions: Featuring resources relating to political ideology and political parties, interest groups and campaign finance, campaigns and elections, and the media and the press.
Individual Rights and Liberties: Classroom resources organized in categories including the First Amendment, voting rights, due process, privacy and equal rights.
Foreign Policy: Resources organized by foreign policy philosophies, tools and current/historical examples.
Save the Date: C-SPAN will be hosting our annual “Cram for the Exam” AP U.S. Government & Politics exam call-in review at 9:00am ET on Saturday, May 2nd! Former C-SPAN Teacher Fellow and Troy, Michigan, teacher Ryan Werenka and Petaluma, California, teacher Kevin Jackson will join us LIVE for the program. Students can call in with their questions (and shoutouts), and post @CSPANWJ on X/Twitter with the hashtag #Cram4TheExam. View past “Cram for the Exam” programs and all of our AP Gov. review resources here.
AP U.S. Government & Politics
AP U.S. Government Resource Crosswalks: Find C-SPAN Classroom resources that directly align to College Board's Course and Exam Description (CED) for AP U.S. Government and Politics with these following unit-by-unit crosswalks!
Practice Free Response Prompts: Sharpen your students’ FRQ skills with an assortment of practice activities spanning all three branches of government.
Other Review Resources: Find review Google Docs, lessons, online games and activities, and archival editions of our annual Cram for the Exam call-in show.
April On This Day in History Collection
Finally, with April just around the corner, recognize important events throughout the month in your classroom with these specifically selected resources from our On This Day in History Collection, sorted by date.
