About Cicero: History Beyond the Textbook

The exciting interactive format of CICERO lets you bring history to life in your classroom while correlating with your state standards.

CICERO: History Beyond The Textbook™ is an award winning, online K-12 digital resource consisting of lesson plans, primary sources, standards, rubrics, assessments, activities, videos, games, interactive maps, and more. CICERO is the quintessential teacher's assistant. The multimedia tools in CICERO are designed to enhance, engage, and expand the overall classroom experience.

Develop by historians, professors, academics, and teachers, and including hundreds of primary sources, CICERO covers U.S. history ranging from 600 B.C. to the present day. Providing teachers with hundreds of lessons at the high school, middle school, and elementary school levels, CICERO provides teachers with a "Digital Schoolbox™" of substantive historical content, methods and formulas proven to enhance the teaching experience and improve student achievement.

ABOUT CICERO
CICERO: History Beyond the Textbook™

CICERO was designed for high school, middle school and elementary school social studies and history teachers to serve as an online digital toolbox to use in their classrooms. Created by teachers for teachers, CICERO helps teachers prepare more thoroughly and effectively for their classes.

CICERO’s educational resources include lectures from top historians, scholars and university professors, national experts in history and social studies.

This interactive web site offers abundant educational resources, teaching methodology and professional development tools, and consists of two sections: classroom tools, and professional development.

Classroom Tools

An Educational Toolbox Right at Your Fingertips CICERO is the ultimate online educational resource with practically every type of historical or educational material you can think of using in your classroom. It delivers a variety of tools such as:

classroom activities
complete downloadable lesson plans
assessment methods and formulas,
period-related audio clips, art, lyrics and music,
historical event maps and interactive battle maps,
history challenge games,
classroom PowerPoint presentations,
history interactive timelines and more.

CICERO is divided into 15 historical units with more than 325 history lessons at the high school, middle school and elementary school levels and its topics include:

Greek and Roman philosophies and their influence on America’s founding documents
The First Globalization
North American Colonies
The Birth of Liberty
American Government
The Early Republic
Antebellum America
Civil War
Industrialization
U.S.A. and the World
Progressive Era
World War I Era
World War II Era
Cold War Era, and
The New Globalization

Professional Development

In addition to rich historical content, CICERO offers an extensive professional development program that allows teachers to increase their own knowledge of the subject, as well as, significantly increase their students’ academic success.

As part of professional development, CICERO provides teachers with:

lesson design tools
information on their state's social studies standards
teaching and evaluation methods
subject-related primary source documents
videos of lectures conducted by historians and scholars
assessing performance criteria rubrics
binary paideia, links and more

Helping Children Learn American History

CICERO has been used by many school districts and individual schools throughout the country for the past four years and it has produced outstanding results. CICERO’s philosophy and methodology revolutionize teaching American History not only by helping teachers become better teachers, but most important, by helping students learn history.

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