Magruder's American Government Interactive High School Government Curriculum

Magruder’s American Government Interactive for grades 9-12 is a print and digital student-centered program.

The program includes the following components:

• Student Edition: (digital or print) features a magazine-style layout to increase readability, with a 50/50 text-to-visual balance. The digital student edition has embedded leveled lesson summaries to meet the needs of all students.
• Teacher’s Edition (digital or print): includes wrap-around pages that provide direct instruction and teaching suggestions to engage students. Planning pages for each topic and lesson make implementation and pacing easy for teachers. Also includes Active Classroom Strategies and ELL/SEL support.
• Interactive Digital Course: hosted on Savvas Realize®, include 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.
• Primary Source and Reading Guide Workbook: Available in digital and print, this workbook contains multiple primary sources and Supreme Court cases per topic for additional analysis, as well as worksheets for each lesson designed to help students’ reading of the student text.

Magruder’s American Government Interactive is built on the C3 Framework for inquiry in social studies. Each topic and lesson follows the Connect-Investigate-Synthesize-Demonstrate learning model. Quest Topic Inquiry features project-based assessment such as civic discussion, document-based writing, or a team project. The teacher’s edition also includes active classroom strategies, which are low-prep, high-impact ways to add inquiry into your classroom.

Yes! Magruder’s American Government Interactive is designed to constantly provide you with the latest information about American government. The Realize Digital Course contains resources like Current Connections digital activities, which use real-world headlines in the classroom and inspire students to deepen their understanding of the world’s current issues and events.Your student edition is designed to be a foundational resource, so it will never be out of date.

This program contains lesson summaries in English and Spanish, at two different reading levels. The Realize Reader eText contains a leveled lesson summary with audio at point of use within each lesson. Topic Tests are also delivered at three different levels. In addition, teachers can assign short lesson-flipped video summaries to visual and auditory learners.