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Digital Course

Introduction

Content Organization

Teacher Orientation

American Government Program Resources

This tutorial explores how the digital course helps students connect, experience, and understand Prentice Hall Magruder’s American Government.

Resources to assign content and monitor and track student progress are found online. The digital course matches the content of the print resources. The content is divided by unit, chapter, and section. Each of these segments is broken down into teacher and student resources. Click the plus sign to see the contents of any folder. Italicized items are hidden from students in their view, but some are assignable to students.

Teacher Orientation contains two PDF documents—the Quick Start Guide and the Content Overview.

The Quick Start Guide provides information to help you get started adding your product, creating your classes, and more. The Content Overview explains how the Magruder’s American Government content is organized online.

The American Government Program Resources folder contains Current Events, answer keys, and other resources.

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Current Events

iCivics

Answer Keys

Essential Questions Journal

Current Events links you to CNN Student News. This resource provides a wealth of teacher materials, including a daily news program, discussion questions, and in-depth learning activities.

iCivics is a link to an interactive Web site created by Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Students can read articles, play games, and complete activities that help prepare them to become knowledgeable, engaged 21st century citizens.

You have access to Answer Keys for all of your materials.

The Essential Questions Journal, available online or in print, helps students develop the framework for responses to the Essential Questions. Students build their understanding and answer journal questions, which shape their responses to the overarching unit Essential Question.

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AYP Monitoring Assessments

Other Resources

Magruder’s American Government Lesson Plans

Government on the Go

Adequate Yearly Progress Monitoring Assessments provide resources that you can use to systematically test students to monitor their skills and comprehension.

Other program resources online include Accelerating the Progress of English Language Learners, which offers current research about best practices and provides teaching strategies for teaching ELL students. There are Blank Graphic Organizers, Rubrics, a WebQuest Teacher Guide, and lessons to teach 21st century skills.

Magruder’s American Government Lesson Plans allow you to customize online lesson plans for each unit, chapter, and section.

Government on the Go allows students to access audio and video files of each chapter’s interactivities. It includes the Audio Review and Political Dictionary—in both English and Spanish—and Audio Tour Animations.

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Units

Online Student Edition

Essential Questions Videos

Experience It!

Each unit has a unit folder that contains all unit-level content.

Each unit, chapter, and section contains immediate links to the Online Student Edition or eText. Students can click on interactive links in the student eText to gain access to 2012 updates of content, charts, and graphs.

Each unit in the program provides an Essential Questions Video that helps students gain a deeper understanding of the Essential Questions in American Government. Students watch a combination of historical and contemporary footage that helps them begin to think about the Essential Question in the unit.

Experience It! is an online interactive decision-making activity centered on the Essential Questions. In this activity, students become the president of a country and must solve a specific problem.

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Chapters

Connect

Lecture Notes

Teacher Resources

Experience

Citizenship Activity Pack: Agents of Change

Each chapter is organized by activities that help students to connect, experience, and understand Magruder’s American Government.

Connect—the first subfolder in the chapter folder—contains material that helps students relate to the chapter content. There is also content contained in subfolders.

Lecture Notes are PowerPoint presentations that you can download directly to your computer desktop. You can find them in each section subfolder in the chapter as well as in the Connect and Understand subfolders.

Teacher Resources contains various teaching support materials in PDF and editable format. You can also find additional teacher resources in each section subfolder.

Each section in the chapter has its own subfolder found underneath the Connect subfolder. The “Experience” label helps students identify these sections as the core content in the chapter. We’ll look at some additional resources found in a section subfolder.

The Citizenship Activity Pack: Agents of Change interactivity covers twelve citizenship skills. These lessons help engage students in the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. In this example, students evaluate leadership.

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Audio Reviews

Understand

Quick Study Guide

WebQuest

Online Assessments/Tests

Reference Section

Review

Audio Reviews of each section are available in both English and Spanish.

Understand is the last subfolder in every chapter folder. Here, you’ll find activities and assignments that wrap up and review the chapter’s content.

The Quick Study Guide enables students to check their understanding of the chapter’s contents and prepare for test-taking success.

The WebQuest folder includes research projects that use online resources to explore issues related to American Government.

The digital course provides many opportunities for assessment. Some of these assessments include the Document-Based Assessments, Know It? Show It! Self-Tests, and Chapter Tests. Know It? Show It! Self-Tests are also found in the Experience section. In the Understand folder, additional opportunities for assessment include Chapter Tests and access to Assessment Banks. The Chapter Tests are leveled and editable.

The Reference Section folder provides quick access to key primary sources and reference material such as the Skills Handbook, Historical Documents, and a Supreme Court Glossary.

This guide explored how the digital course helps students connect, experience, and understand Prentice Hall Magruder’s American Government.