Florida Magruder's American Government Interactive High School Government Curriculum

For over 100 years, Florida Magruder’s American Government Interactive has been the premier high school textbook for its discipline. It is the first high school program that is continuously updated and designed to reflect current political events.

In addition, Florida’s Magruder’s American Government brings a modern lens to social studies content based on the Florida Next Generation Sunshine State Standards (NGSSS) and prepares students with valuable critical thinking and inquiry skills that will help them succeed on Florida assessments.
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Build Citizenship Skills with the New U.S. Government Program

Florida’s Magruder’s American Government Interactive stays up to date and features connections between foundational principles and present-day events.

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A continually updated American Government curriculum

Florida Magruder’s American Government Interactive will be updated online every year. Current Connections digital activities keep students informed about the latest policy debates, history, and civics.

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Student Edition builds foundational skills.

Students will experience the story of government and develop citizenship skills in different ways, from different sources. Digital activities are updated annually to keep students informed about the latest political developments.

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Case Studies and daily current events podcasts help students focus on current issues

Relevant case studies help students explore current issues and investigate their connection to government topics through primary sources. Current events podcasts give teachers new conversation starters for class discussions. 

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Magruder's New High School Government Program

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  • Built for Florida
  • Current Connections
  • Differentiated Content
  • College, Career, and Civic Life Framework
  • Updated Digital Content and Activities
Based on tested best practices, Florida standards-based content, and cutting-edge technology that prepare students to be college and career ready.
  • Built for Today
    Built-in Florida NGSSS instruction prepares all students for success.
  • Realize Results
    Easy-to-use digital resources spark meaningful learning.
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Current Connections digital activities keep students informed about the latest policy debates, history, and civics.
  • Help facilitate a meaningful dialogue
    Help facilitate a meaningful dialogue with synthesis activities rooted in current content.
  • Spark inquiry for students
    Spark inquiry for students with an Essential Question for each topic.
  • Make history personal
    Make history personal with exclusive NBC Learn™ My Story Videos for students.
  • Access premium content Listenwise® current events
    Access premium Listenwise® current events for every topic and get new podcasts every day.
  • Cultivate civic responsibility
    Cultivate civic responsibility: At the end of every topic, students Take Action on what they’ve learned.
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Differentiated content, leveled readings, and active-classroom resources help you reach all your students.
  • Magazine-style print Student Edition
    Magazine-style print Student Edition won’t overwhelm students. Realize Reader™ eText includes digital translation to over 100 languages, highlighting, annotation tools, and more.
  • Engaging new virtual experiences
    Engaging new virtual experiences make government come alive from the pages of a textbook.
  • Lesson summaries
    The lesson summaries with audio are easy-to-read highlights for students to review or preview content.
  • Leveled lesson summaries
    For struggling readers, the leveled lesson summary
  • Remediated Lesson Quizzes
    Remediated Lesson Quizzes help test students’ knowledge of the content.
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Rich primary sources, inquiry-based lessons, and immersive activities connect to the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework and animate American Government for students.
  • Quest Inquiry Center
    Quest Inquiry Center activities align to the C3 Framework and help students to become active and informed citizens.
  • Close reading strategies
    A Primary Source and Reading Guide workbook includes close reading strategies for both the textbook and primary sources.
  • Review guide at the end of each topic
    A review guide at the end of each topic engages students with infographics, recap key information, complete critical thinking questions, and practice answering document-based questions (DBQs).
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  • Current Connections
    Current Connections digital activities keep students informed about the latest policy debates, history, and civics–and help them synthesize newly learned ideas.
  • Case Study Connections
    Headlines connect to the past, and to students’ daily lives through Case Study Connections.  Annually updated!
  • Updated digital activities
    Never miss an election update or important political milestone again! The program’s digital activities are routinely updated to reflect changing political policies, legislation, and attitudes over time.
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Develop Social and Civic Competencies

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Essential Questions

Essential Questions introduce new ideas and challenge students to better understand how enduring American government issues are still relevant today.

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Overview

Magruder’s American Government Interactive engages students by connecting key foundational concepts of American government with students’ lives and modern politics.

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Engaging content and time-saving classroom management tools come together in the teacher-friendly Savvas Realize® LMS, included with your program.

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Savvas Realize® brings our award-winning content to life in an exciting digital experience that students love. For teachers and admins, it includes valuable classroom-management tools like auto-rostering, single-sign-on, and available integrations with many top K-12 LMSs.
Preview your week ahead, adjust your daily lesson plans, review student and class progress, build and share lessons with your own content, or easily search for differentiated resources to inspire more “lightbulb” moments for your students. The single-sign-on platform makes it all easy and manageable.
Make logging into your Realize dashboard an essential daily activity–just like checking your school email and Google Classroom accounts–to get a clear, organized path to your learning goals.

Florida Magruder’s American Government Interactive Program Frequently Asked Questions

  • What is Florida Magruder’s American Government Interactive?
    Florida Macgruder’s American Government Interactive for grades 9-12 is a print and digital student-centered program with robust teacher support. Florida Magruder’s American Government Interactive focuses on engaging students by connecting headlines to students’ lives today, a foundation of inquiry-based learning, engaging digital activities, and more.
  • What components are part of Florida Magruder’s American Government Interactive?

    The program includes the following components:

    • Florida 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.
    • Florida 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.
    • Florida 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.
  • Is Florida Magruder’s American Government Interactive inquiry-based?
    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.
  • Does Florida Magruder’s American Government Interactive update after an election?
    Yes! Florida Magruder’s American Government Interactive is designed to continually provide you with the latest information about American government. The Savvas 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.
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