The Interactive Constitution (created by the Constitution Center) is now available free from the App Store and Google Play, so teachers and students can carry the Constitution with them at all times. Visit the website (constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution). Then get the app on Google Play or download it in the App Store. On this interactive site, constitutional experts explore the Constitution’s history and what it means today. For each provision of the Constitution, scholars of different perspectives discuss what they agree upon, and what they disagree about. These experts were…

PBSEnjoy a series that profiles key figures in history by using their most memorable quotes to frame their life stories. The films follow Queen Elizabeth II, Muhammad Ali and Jim Henson. * Follow Queen Elizabeth II’s remarkable life, from her youth to her uncle’s abdication, her father’s coronation as King George VI, her experience during World War II, her sudden ascension to the throne and her eventful reign of more than 60 years. * Muhammad Ali’s path led from a Louisville gym to boxing successes, conversion to Islam, opposition to the draft, exile from the ring, comeback fights,…

Madaya Mom: The story of One Mother's Unimaginable Struggle for Survival is the story of a Syrian family in an online, comic-book format. Since journalists and cameras weren't able to gain access to the besieged town Madaya, ABC News began relying on dispatches from a Syrian mother for insider information. The news network decided to team up with Marvel Comics to create a free digital comic of her stories. The graphic rendering of one family's experiences of being trapped inside the town of Madaya for more than a year includes their struggles against starvation, unsanitary living conditions…

What does the C3 Framework look like in a fifth grade classroom? This five-minute video produced by Social Studies School Service provides a snapshot of high quality C3 social studies instruction designed to prepare students for active and engaged citizenship. The accompanying lesson plan, handouts, and summative assessment rubric developed by Rebecca Valbuena, Board Member of California Council for the Social Studies and Michelle Herczog, President of National Council for the Social Studies provides step-by-step directions and tools to transform a traditional lesson about the fundamental…

"Hamilton’s America," the documentary about the making of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s pop culture Broadway phenomenon "Hamilton" – winner of 11 Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize — will show on Great Performances, Friday, October 21 at 9 p.m. on PBS as the season premiere of the PBS Arts Fall Festival. (Check local listings.) "The story of Alexander Hamilton is most remembered for its dramatic conclusion, which saw Hamilton killed in a duel by Vice President Aaron Burr. But the full story of this political genius – a poor immigrant who built himself up from nothing to become one of the nation’s most…

Books by NCSS Members James A. Banks, Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, and Miriam Ben-Peretz. Global Migration, Diversity, and Civic Education: Improving Policy and Practice (Multicultural Education Series). New York: Teachers College Press, 2016. Paperback, $44.95, 256 pages. Description: Mass migration and globalization are creating new and deep challenges to education systems the world over. In this volume (part of the series Multicultural Education), some of the world's leading researchers in multicultural education and immigration discuss critical issues related to cultural sustainability,…

(Posted September, 2016) = NCSS Members-only resource For Secondary/High School from Social Education Teaching in the Time of Trump Socialism in the United States: Hidden in Plain Sight (Not so) Unprecedented: Media Analysis of the 2016 Presidential Race and Its Historical Precedents Memorandum about the First Nixon-Kennedy Debate  Media Construction of Presidential Campaigns Political Polling Past and Present   For Middle Level from Middle Level Learning Making Choices: An Explanation of Political Preferences Using…

PBS/POV Documentary"From This Day Forward" portrays an American family coping with one of life’s most intimate transformations. Years ago, when director Sharon Shattuck’s father came out as transgender and began living as Trisha, Sharon was in the awkward throes of middle school. Her father’s transition to female was difficult for her straight-identified mother, Marcia, to accept, but her parents stayed together. As the Shattucks reunite to plan Sharon’s wedding, she seeks a deeper understanding of how her parents’ marriage, and their family, survived intact. From This Day Forward is shown…

More than four million Central Americans reside in the United States today, yet a lack of resources on Central American heritage in many schools makes the rich history and literature of the region "invisible." A Teaching for Change website hosts a collection of lessons, book lists, biographies of noted historical figures, and readings-- free for K-12 classroom teachers.

PBS presents a whole collection of programs during October. To begin, on Monday October 3, viewers can be inspired by "Willie Velasquez: Your Vote is Your Voice," a documentary about the charismatic pioneering activist whose rallying cry -- “su voto es su voz” (your vote is your voice) -- started a grassroots movement that transformed the nation’s political landscape and paved the way for the growing power of the Latino vote. Visit the FULL LISTING of October Hispanic Heritage Month TV programming at http://www.pbs.org/about/blogs/news/pbs-honors-hispanic-heritage-month-…. PBS.org features…