Ohio students will be the first in the country to test out a web-based, interactive curriculum focused on politics, civics and government. Statehouse correspondent Karen Kasler has more.
iCivics.org was launched by retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. It features games about the Constitution and the branches of government for kids and lesson plans for teachers. Ohio kids will soon be the first in the nation to have access to a curriculum through the iCivics website, says former U.S. Senator John Glenn of Ohio.
"We have what we are proud of to say is the most wonderful form of government in the world, but it is the most complicated, too," Glenn said. "And unless you study that, you just don't keep up with all the possibilities that we have for the future."
Ohio State's John Glenn College of Public Affairs and the Capitol Square Foundation helped with iCivicsOhio, which will feature five lesson plans targeted toward eighth graders.