Social Education May/June 2024
Social Education May/June 2024
Volume:88
Num:3
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Point of View
The South Dakota Social Studies Standards Debate
Benjamin F. Jones and Stephen Jackson present distinct perspectives on inquiry-based learning and content-rich pedagogy in the context of South Dakota’s new social studies standards.
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Elementary Education
Leveraging Economic and Linguistic Funds of Knowledge through Biliteracy Strategies
Incorporating the familial economic knowledge and experiences of students in dual language pro-grams can promote social studies learning that is student-centered, relevant, and engaging.
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Teaching for Environmental Justice: Learning From the Film Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Be-comes Dust
The spotlighted documentary about an alliance of farmers, Native Americans, and Japanese Americans defending water rights can be an excellent entry point into a study of the legacy of colonization and an exploration of environmental justice.
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Social Justice, Inclusion, and Diversity in Asian American Literature for High School
These recommended books and teaching activities highlight the diversity of Asian American experi-ences and offer a valuable counter narrative to traditional American textbooks.
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Carter G. Woodson Book Awards, 2024
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The Septima P. Clark Women in Literature Book Award, 2024
The selected Septima Clark Award books cover a range of topics from an animal rescuer in India, a renowned chef of Southern cooking, and the 1975 Icelandic women’s strike.
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Sources and Strategies
Canned Childhood”: Encouraging Student Understanding of Progressive Era Issues and Reform Strategies Through a Poem Related to Child Labor
Examining the featured poem about child labor through a range of disciplinary lenses can spring-board into an engaging lesson on the Progressive Era and social reform movements.
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Intersectionality in the 1950s: Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Reading the highlighted novel about immigrant and LGBTQ+ experiences during a unit on the Cold War can provide a deeper understanding of this period in U.S. history.
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Teaching with Documents
The Movement to Boycott the 1936 Berlin Olympics
A close look at the featured documents about the Olympics in Nazi Germany can launch an interest-ing lesson about World War II and prompt a student debate about the pros and cons of boycotts as civic action.
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Teaching the C3 Framework
Don’t Forget the Tasks: Why Formative Tasks Are Key to Deliberation
If teachers want their students to engage in meaningful deliberation around a compelling question, they should focus on explicitly connecting questions and sources with formative and summative per-formance tasks.
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Member Spotlight
Member Spotlight: Walter Parker
Walter Parker is Professor of Education and Political Science Emeritus in Seattle. He has been an educator
for 42 years, and his expertise is in K-12 social studies.
Notable Social Studies Trade Books
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2024
National Council for the Social Studies and the Children's Book Council have cooperated on this annual bibliography since 1972.The books that appear in this annotated list were evaluated and selected by a Book Review Committee appointed by the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and assembled in cooperation with the Children’s Book Council (CBC).
