The featured document from a parade to celebrate the Constitution can serve as an engaging entry point into a lesson about the founding document and the campaign for ratification in 1788.

Classroom-ready tasks that foster historical thinking provide quick feedback about student understanding when it is most useful—during the course of a unit.

Two experts on youth and civic participation present very different views on the controversial proposal to require high school students to pass the INS test.

Two recent films present powerful portrayals of the struggle for voting rights in America.

In this elementary level inquiry, students explore diverse political systems and consider the implications of how government leaders are chosen.

This high school inquiry explores the major population shifts and the social and economic transformations fueled by the Industrial Revolution.

A collection of turnkey professional learning materials and a collaborative network of hundreds of teachers aims to empower teachers as they wrestle with the big ideas and instructional implications of the C3 Framework and the Inquiry Arc.

A teacher who reviewed and piloted the New York State Toolkit inquiries describes her experience teaching the Uncle Tom's Cabin inquiry.

The Uncle Tom's Cabin inquiry illustrates the Inquiry Design Model structure as students examine Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel to explore how words can affect public opinion.