Social Education January/February 2011
Social Education January/February 2011
Volume:75
Num:1
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NCSS Notebook
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Redefining the Vistas of Social Studies
By enhancing our professional organization and stepping up our advocacy, we can place social studies firmly in the foreground.
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Draft of the U.S. Constitution (August 1787) and Schedule of the Compensation of the Senate of the United States (March 1791)
The two featured documents can serve as a starting point for a lesson on public service while students debate the amount of pay that public servants should receive.
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Perspectives: Should Mandatory Voting Laws be Implemented in the United States?
In two distinct essays, voting and elections experts Norman Ornstein and Vassia Stoilov consider whether compulsory voting laws in the United States are the solution to low voter turnout.
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An Approach to Integrating Writing Skills into the Social Studies Classroom
When teachers incorporate writing regularly in the social studies classroom, students not only become better prepared for reading and writing assessments, but gain a deeper comprehension of social studies content.
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Teaching about Racial Segregation in Postwar America using Black Like Me
The memoir of a white journalist who disguised himself as an African American in the pre-civil rights South provides students with greater insight into the evolution of segregation in American society.
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Free Markets, Government Intervention, and Homework Passes: An Economics Simulation for the History Classroom
Students gain a greater understanding of both free market and government-controlled economics when they are forced to consider the distribution of a scarce classroom resource.
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Using Community Cookbooks as Primary Sources
A close study of community cookbooks illustrates economic, cultural, and technological trends over time, such as shifts in food production, preparation, and consumption.
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Effective Strategies for Teaching Social Studies
This list of recommended websites includes websites on teaching methods and student achievement as well as sites that offer lesson plans and instructional strategies that exemplify these methods.
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Keeping, Making, and Building Peace in School
The approaches to conflict management that our schools select can either encourage the deepening of democracy or reproduce social inequality.
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Political Civility in the Age of Reagan
The centennial of Ronald Reagan's birth offers an opportunity to engage students in lessons about the importance of political civility.