Author Rebecca G. W. Mueller posits that local history is an effective approach to powerful social studies when it builds from children’s prior knowledge in personal and tangible ways. In this article, Mueller describes an inquiry approach that uses experiences of children who lived in Beaumont Mill Village to answer the question, “Did children in the past live like me?”

Brianne Pitts

While some racial and ethnic groups share similarities, it’s important to disaggregate our teaching so that overlooked communities such as Southeast Asians can be properly represented.

These recommended websites will help teachers find excellent resources and lesson plans for teaching about women in history during Women's History Month and the entire year.

The websites highlighted in this column offer resources and lesson plans for exploring the concept of freedom in the classroom.

Interactive Web 2.0 tools are changing the way crises—from earthquakes to blizzards—are being tracked and managed, and everyday citizens are playing a new and important role.

The recommended websites feature ideas and lesson plans that will help teachers and curriculum specialists integrate social studies and the arts.

Tina M. Ellsworth, Northwest Missouri State University