Organizing a mock constitutional convention in the classroom allows students to probe our govern-ment structures and to consider whether modifications are needed.

Local walking field trips enable young people to learn financial literacy concepts and practices that reflect their own community’s history, economics, and conceptions of wealth.

By integrating the process of critical questioning of media messages into the everyday classroom curriculum, we can help produce a citizenry with the skills needed to negotiate future threats to truth.

A Position Statement of National Council for the Social Studies Approved and published June 2022

This panel discussion encourages educators and community members to speak/push back against unjust policies and practices that target LGBTQ+ and other marginalized communities across Tennessee and the nation at large. Queer panelists representing K-12 schools, higher education, the business community, and the entertainment industry reveal how they have experienced injustice; they highlight on-the-ground realities centered on queer life in Tennessee; and they share how they have actively resisted targeted oppression. They will also suggest ways NCSS members might participate in this active…

An overview of teaching materials provided by the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission for the Nineteenth Amendment, including an online version of a giant mural created by British visual artist Helen Marshall and exhibited in Washington, DC, in 2020. 

Students will gain a profound understanding of concepts such as freedom of speech, fair elections, and responsive representative leadership with this lesson on the proposed amendment to regulate election spending.

Teachers can impact young people's involvement in elections by not only teaching about elections, but also about how to register to vote and how to go about voting.

How do we preserve our civil society and dynamic political system and prepare students to be active citizens in a democratic society? The need for civic education is more essential now than ever before, and students deserve access to powerful civic lessons that actively engage them in learning about our democracy. The ultimate goal would be for students to be able to study and solve problems arising in everyday life just as adults in a democracy should do. For example, students could participate in the developing story of a presidential election, as this article will describe.