Social Education October 2007
Social Education October 2007
Volume:71
Num:6
How to Teach about Aligning Elections Using the Internet
The author investigates the re-aligning elections theory that certain elections transform the political landscape. Will this happen in 2008? These websites will engage students and challenge them to call the election.
Supreme Court Preview
Teaching Activity by James Landman
Guardians of the Past: Using Drama to Assess Learning in American History
Students learn how to analyze legal cases and gain a deeper understanding of judicial reasoning when they write and perform classroom plays based on historical cases.
Learning Early Twentieth-Century History through First-Person Interviews
Carrying out face-to-face interviews with American seniors can make U.S. history more relevant to students, and especially those who are first- and second-generation citizens.
Promoting Historic Preservation in the Classroom
High school students learn that there is much more to history than the textbook when they interview World War II veterans and transcribe the stories for the Library of Congress's Veterans History Project.
Denmark 1943: Using Music to Teach Holocaust Rescue
Though Holocaust rescue efforts were limited, they are certainly noteworthy; this lesson offers a creative approach to teaching about the unique Danish rescue of 7,000 Jews.
Learning History through the Universal
Hilary Landorf and Martha Fernanda Pineda
Reading in the Social Studies: Using Subtitled Films
Foreign films not only engage students with other countries and other cultures, but can also promote reading through their subtitles.
October 1957 Memorandum Related to Sputnik
This month marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Soviet launch of Sputnik, which fueled American panic that the Soviet Union could fire intercontinental ballistic missiles. The featured document highlights President Eisenhower's reaction and the government's response.