Creating biography webs helps young learners recognize how people, economic conditions, and significant events shaped the personal development of historic individuals.

Students learn how local history has coincided with national events and trends when they create scrapbooks to document the history of their high school.

Every year, Americans spend billions of dollars on bottled water. Students can learn about the costs and consequences of this choice.

This background essay and accompanying handout can help students learn how global citizens can conserve tropical forests and reduce global warming.

In this lesson, students consider the principal alternatives facing U.S. policymakers dealing with Iran, before formulating their own points of view.

Educators will find the websites highlighted in this column useful for teaching about the history of government and government systems around the world.

Adapting sources for classroom use allows teachers to steer students toward authentic historical inquiry and away from a version of history determined exclusively by the textbook.

A class reenactment of the Chicago 8 trial offers students a close look at the rights and restrictions of free speech and dissent in America.

The featured document on federal aid for school lunches and the accompanying essay on the School Lunch Act provide students with a unique chance to study the role of government.