KidCitizen Access and Overview
The KidCitizen Editor is part of the KidCitizen online app project, which introduces a new way for young students to engage with history through primary resources. In KidCitizen's online episodes, children interactively explore Congress and civic engagement through historical primary sources and connect what they find with their daily lives.
Screen from the KidCitizen Episode "Community Helpers"
KidCitizen draws on primary source analysis strategies from the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program, as well as game-based learning best practices.
This KidCitizen Episodes are available at www.KidCitizen.net. Go there to play the episodes, and sign up for access to the KidCitizen Editor, which gives teachers the power to create their own episodes and easily share them with students. The KidCitizen Editor runs on the Muzzy Lane Author cloud service.
Access to the KidCitizen Episodes and Editor are solely available at KidCitizen.net. Access is free to teachers thanks to support from the Library of Congress.