Prelude Fall is the most beautiful season of all in New York City. Spring gives merely a fleeting taste of mild weather before the city bakes in too much heat; rare is the New Yorker who endures the long winter without complaint. Having lived in New York City all my life, first as a student and then as a teacher, the fall had always meant “back to school.” Only on a sabbatical year off did I finally learn to appreciate the joys of autumn when New York City is in all its glory—day after day you can move from inside to outside in whatever you are wearing while savoring the deep blue skies…

Teaching World Religions in Middle School Also: Change-oriented Citizenship

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On a blustery day in March 2021, a line of bundled-up, masked first graders walked from school to a house on the National Register of Historic Places in their south Minneapolis neighborhood. For these 23 young learners, it wasn’t just a walk. This Covid-era field trip was a culminating activity in a series of lessons, “Unearthing Histories,” that empowered the students to be historians, dig into their complex local history, and then take action to help create a more just future.

In this article, the authors discuss the possibilities and benefits of inquiry-based learning at NPS parks, historic sites, and their companion websites. They also stress that you can extend the guidance and resources that may be provided by any historic monument or park close to your school, whether it’s a part of the NPS system or not. Next, they provide steps to help you locate a monument or site that you want to study in your classroom, as well as a selection of NPS parks and monuments that they feel provide excellent, inquiry-based K-6 social studies curricula, including virtual tours…

Even before the first U.S. death from the mysterious, new coronavirus, Dr. Kizzmekia S. Corbett and Dr. Barney Graham were in a race against the clock. In 2020, they were research team members at the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH’s) Vaccine Research Center in Bethesda, Maryland.

This article features highlights from an integrated curricular unit designed to challenge how the gender gap influences young learners’ gender stereotypes of STEM professions by allowing students to question their own biases about these occupations while learning herstory. 

A Position Statement of National Council for the Social StudiesApproved and published 2021   Introduction There are approximately 90,000 government units in the United States (Motel, 2014), and most governing occurs at the local level. These governmental authorities include county, municipal, township, school district, and special district governments (US Census Bureau, 2019), not to mention a myriad of quasi-governmental and nonprofit advisory and governance boards. As Education for American Democracy (2021) reminds us, After years of polarization, the United States is…