High School Lesson A free article, PDF, from Social Education "Borderlands of the Southwest: An Exercise in Geographical History,"www.socialstudies.org/teacherslibrary/borderlands-southwest-exercise-geographical-history Middle Level Lesson A free article, PDF, from Middle Level Learning “Making Maps” (Theme Issue) MLLwww.socialstudies.org/publications/mll/September2009 Elementary Lesson A free article, PDF, from Social Studies and the Young Learner “The Public Park: A Sense of Place in a Civic Space”www.socialstudies.org/system/files…

High School Lesson A free article, PDF, from Social Education "Listen Up: Studying the American Labor Movement through Oral History"   A free article, PDF, from Social EducationSocialism in United States: Hidden in Plain Sight   Middle Level Lesson A Free article, PDF, from Middle Level Learning "Workin' on the Railroad: African American Labor History"   Elementary Lesson  A free article, PDF, from Pages 11–16 of Middle Level LearningKing Coal: A Piece of Eastern Pennsylvania History  

These three chapters are from the NCSS book, The Human Impact of Natural Disasters—Issues for the Inquiry-based Classroom edited by Valerie Ooka Pang, William R. Fernekes, and Jack L. Nelson. Bill Pisarra presents a geographic perspective on natural disasters, while Marc Norman reviews the psychological impact of natural disasters in school. Margaret Smith Crocco and Thomas Chandler look back at Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans in 2005.   NCSS Members can access the full text of the book online here . The book (which is NCSS Bulletin 110) can also be ordered in print from…

Offer your skills, talents, and expertise this summer and fall -- and help chart the direction of your profession. Consider these opportunities (from NCSS and colleagues) for social studies educators of all stripes (below). Submit your Call for Participation to this newsletter at tssp@ncss.org. ** ***************************************** ** SOCIAL STUDIES AND THE YOUNG LEARNER, the peer-reviewed NCSS journal especially for grade K-6 teachers, is seeking manuscripts. We are seeking any sort of social studies lesson activity: "The theme of any issue is open," says Editor Scott Waring. Read…

Issued by National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and its following Associated Groups: College and University Faculty Assembly (CUFA) International Assembly (IA) Social Science Educational Consortium (SSEC) approved August 17, 2017 As members of the National Council for the Social Studies, we express deep concern for the events taking place in Charlottesville, Virginia, and their aftermath during the past week. Acknowledging the long term and divisive history of racial hatred and religious intolerance in the United States, we deplore acts of reckless violence and declarations of…

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