Florida Civics Interactive Print and Digital Curriculum
Florida Civics Interactive is designed to actively promote civic engagement for young adults in grades 6–12. Based on the Florida Next Generation Sunshine State Standards (NGSSS), it prepares students with valuable critical thinking and inquiry skills that will help them succeed on Florida assessments.
- Helps to inspire the next generation to be active and productive Floridians.
- Daily podcasts make content relevant to students.
- Builds civic knowledge and life skills through hands-on approach.
- Engages students in critical thinking and writing, which reinforces 21st-century skills.
Develop Social and Civic Competencies
Florida Civics Interactive develops important civic competencies and life skills to make students informed and responsible citizens.
Make civics active and relevant for your students
Personalize civics instruction by connecting history and daily events to students’ lives with thought-provoking content, activities, and media.
Skills-focused civic learning
Focus on building civic knowledge and life skills, such as problem-solving, teamwork, or evaluating media. Florida Civics Interactive helps you develop community-minded citizens through a hands-on, life-skill approach.
Inspire students to take civic action
Encourage students to get involved, participate, and engage in civic life at all times throughout the course. Student-centered inquiry projects foster critical thinking skills while guiding students to take action to create solutions.
Teacher support to develop important civic competencies
Florida Civics Interactive helps you reduce lesson planning and classroom-management time, so you can focus on teaching instead. Its Topic Planner and Lesson At-a-Glance features will save you countless preparation hours.
Develop Social and Civic Competencies
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Built for Florida
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Relevant to Students’ Lives
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Flexible Resources
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Innovative Lesson Support
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Built for TodayBuilt-in Florida NGSSS instruction prepares all students for success.
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Inspire TomorrowBoost inquiry and active participation for every Florida student.
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Realize ResultsEasy-to-use digital resources spark meaningful learning.
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Connect your lessonsConnect your lessons to current news events with daily Listenwise® podcasts.
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Short topic kick-off videosShort topic kick-off videos introduce skills by engaging students in personal stories of people and events.
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Topic focusEach topic focuses on an important life skill, which is broken down into sub skills that are the focus of each lesson.
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Online Inquiry CenterThe digital program includes an online Inquiry Center with searchable student civics inquiry projects and activities, plus teacher support at the ready.
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Easy access to resourcesThe Florida Civics Interactive program dashboard makes it easy to access resources for the most effective and efficient civics instruction.
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Modular digital contentModular digital content provides short, flexible, interchangeable lessons.
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Differentiated lesson supportInteractive primary sources and vetted open educational resources provide flexible, differentiated lesson support at point of use.
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Performance-based activities
Performance-based activities in every lesson emphasize doing and thinking rather than just memorizing facts.
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Lesson At-a-GlanceThe Lesson At-a-Glance feature details objectives, vocabulary, resources, extension activities, pacing, and more. It will save you hours each week.
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Topic PlannerThe Topic Planner gives you a clear picture of upcoming lessons. Topic skills, resources, routines, and pacing suggestions help you achieve your goals.
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Lesson skillsSkills video, photo, or test prompts help you introduce lesson skills and prompt discussion in a visual way.
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Maximize your classroom teaching timeEach lesson includes recommendations in periods and minutes to maximize your classroom teaching time.
Take a Closer Look at Civics Florida Interactive
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Florida Civics Interactive leverages videos to connect history to the skills that students need to acquire as they're becoming active citizens in their communities.
Savvas Realize® moves learning forward to better serve each student, teacher, and school district in Florida.
Engaging content and time-saving classroom-management tools come together in the teacher-friendly Savvas Realize LMS, included with your program.
Savvas Realize® brings our award-winning content to life in an exciting digital experience that students love. For teachers and admins, it includes valuable classroom-management tools like auto-rostering, single-sign-on, and available integrations with many top K-12 LMSs. Access to teacher and student editions of Realize® is free with the cost of the program.
Preview your week ahead, adjust your daily lesson plans, review student and class progress, build and share lessons with your own content, or easily search for differentiated resources to inspire more “lightbulb” moments for your students. The Savvas Realize single-sign-on platform makes it all easy and manageable.
Make logging into your Realize dashboard an essential daily activity to get a clear, organized path to your learning goals.
Florida Civics Interactive Program Frequently Asked Questions
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What is Florida Civics Interactive and what are the components?
Florida Civics Interactive is a brand new digital program designed to actively promote civic engagement for Florida middle schools. The curriculum develops important civic competencies and life skills needed to become informed and responsible citizens.
The program consists of the following components:
- Teacher Guide: Print and Digital Teacher Edition with full lesson support and integrated ELD Support.
- Online Teacher Resources: Digital course with Interactives and links to the eText for narrative content. Includes Teacher Resources and blackline masters for additional support with EL strategies, close reading, and skills instruction.
- Student Edition Hardcover Text: Includes all core content lessons, civics skill lessons, numerous primary sources, and more.
- End-of-Course Test Prep Workbook: Provides practice and preparation for the high-stakes Florida exam.
- Student Online Digital Course: Full Digital Course for each grade with Interactives and links to the Student eText for narrative content.
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What are the key features in Florida Civics Interactive?
- Daily Current Events news stories to make learning relevant
- Mini Lessons that allow teachers to teach their way with modular digital content that provides short, flexible, and interchangeable lessons
- Topic Slide Decks to kick off concepts and walk through lesson activities
- Topic Kickoff Videos to engage students in personal stories of people and events
- Inquiry Center projects that foster collaboration and communication skills
- Extension Activities at point of use—composed of open educational resources, like iCivics, Crash Course, Bill of Rights Institute, and more.
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How do I sign up for a Florida Civics Interactive digital demo?
Florida Civics Interactive digital courseware on Savvas Realize® includes robust digital tools that give teachers flexibility to use a digital, print, or blended format in their classrooms. Teachers can customize the program to rearrange content, upload their own content, add links to online media, and edit resources and assessments. Program-specific resources, flexible agnostic resources, and assessments are available in one location for easy lesson planning and presentation. Contact your Account Manager for demo access.
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