KidCitizen is part of the Congress, Civic Participation, and Primary Sources Project, supported by a grant from the Library of Congress.
28 days of ideas for exploring Black history through stories from more than 400 National Parks and communities. And introduce our National parks to K-5 students with the KidCitizen National Parks episode.
Join us for 3 webinars where you’ll create your own episode while learning the key skills to build interactive episodes with the KidCitizen Editor.
Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month celebrates generations of Asian and Pacific Islanders who have enriched America's history and are instrumental in its future success. Learn about resources from KidCitizen, the Library of Congress, National Archives, National Gallery, and others.
KidCitizen provides a growing set of interactive episodes where K-5 students work with primary source photographs to explore Congress and Civic Engagement.
National parks are incredible places full of natural beauty and wonders. In this primary source inquiry, children embark on a journey to explore how these parks have become symbols of our national heritage and how they offer us opportunities to explore, learn, and connect with the natural world.
Explore how voluntarism and civic action of children has been important to their community in the past and present.
Every family has a story to tell about who they are and their unique journey in the world. Through close observation, children get a view into daily life of a Japanese American family incarcerated at Manzanar.
In this brief introductory episode, we find out what a primary source is and explore a few examples.
Analyze a greeting card to learn about a family, who they are, and what feelings they were expressing.
Long ago Congress decided that it was important to pass labor laws to protect children. Why did they think that child labor was a problem?
We are working with the University of Puerto Rico on Spanish language versions of three more episodes. Enter your email, and we’ll tell you when they are ready!
With the KidCitizen Editor you can customize episodes or create your own, then easily share them with students.
The app’s episodes capitalize on the active and social nature of young children's learning, using primary sources for rich demonstrations, interactions, and models of literacy.
The KidCitizen team is gathering resources to help all TPS Consortium partners work on Usability and Accessibility of digital and online resources.
