The highlighted websites offer lesson plans, book lists, or other resources that can help teachers integrate literature and the arts into their social studies instruction.

High school students in New Jersey practice artifact analysis and learn about soldier life in World War II when they interact with wartime relics, including medals, gas masks, ration coupons, and letters home.

When students study the issue of reporter's privilege they will understand why the courts and legislatures still struggle to define this protection, more than 150 years after the first American reporter was jailed for refusing to reveal a source.

The featured artwork highlights the 52 words of the Preamble to the Constitution. The accompanying document shows, however, that these well known words underwent many changes before reaching their final form.

The Dutch contribution to America's economic system and cultural fabric was highly significant, yet history textbooks barely mention their early seventeenth-century influence on America.

Creating biography webs helps young learners recognize how people, economic conditions, and significant events shaped the personal development of historic individuals.

Students learn how local history has coincided with national events and trends when they create scrapbooks to document the history of their high school.

Every year, Americans spend billions of dollars on bottled water. Students can learn about the costs and consequences of this choice.

This background essay and accompanying handout can help students learn how global citizens can conserve tropical forests and reduce global warming.