Explore these pre-made civics challenges geared for 6th through 8th grade classrooms. Once you select a challenge, share its code with your students so they can make their case.
This view is intended to be used by teachers to select a challenge. (Don’t understand what a Challenge is? Take a look at our page on The Basics.) If you haven’t created an account and logged in, you’ll only get to pick from our 20 pre-made Challenges. Register for a free account if you’d like to customize Challenges to meet your classroom’s needs.
Browse the Challenges on this page to find one that works for your classroom needs. Each of the blocks on this page represents a Challenge, and you can choose any to read the full Challenge scenario.
Each Challenge puts your students in a scenario and includes a tab of related Primary Sources. Your students will review the scenario and sources, then choose to make their own case, with their own custom annotations on the available Primary Sources.
When you find a Challenge you’d like to share with your students, click on the blue Challenge Code button.
This will display a unique code for the Challenge you’ve selected. Share that code with your students, telling them to go to the homepage of this website where they can enter the code on the homepage.
Once your students enter the code, they will be able to review the Challenge you have selected. From there, they may choose to make a case about the Challenge, which opens up organizational, note-taking, and presentation tools they can use.
Glad you asked! You are welcome to create your own custom versions of any available Challenge. All you need to do is create an account and login. We do require an email address to make an account, but we will never share your personal information with any third party.
Once you are logged in, go to All Challenges, pick the pre-made Challenge you wish to customize, and then click the Customize tab at the top of the page.
Once you save your customizations, your new Challenge will have its own unique Challenge Code for you to share with your students, just the same as with pre-made Challenges.