Creating classroom book clubs with e-readers helps connect adolescent interests, digital literacies, and content area academic goals.

M. Gail Hickey, ed. Reflecting on Service‐Learning in Higher Education. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. 230 pages. $80.0 cloth; 79.77 eBook.This book examines forms of pedagogy such as service‐learning, experiential learning, and problem‐based learning in order to determine how students make connections between and among abstract academic concepts and real‐life issues. This edited collection is divided into three sections—“Reflecting on Community Partnerships,” “Reflecting on Classroom Practice,” and “Reflecting on Diversity”—so as to represent interdisciplinary…

The featured photographs, in conjunction with a New Deal-era report about Puerto Rico, can inspire a provocative classroom debate about the use of terminology, historical vocabulary, and the meaning of “progress.”

In order to promote inclusive social studies, this article describes how upper-level elementary students can learn about the Women’s Suffrage Movement and how it intersects with the experiences of other marginalized Americans persevering to obtain the right to vote.

Lookout Point: Who Influences Social Studies? Tedd Levy Wandering Behind: Talking About Pearl Harbor Daniel J. Ferri Oral History Research: Internet Resources and Report Margaret Hill A World War II Oral History Project for Eighth Grader Thomas E. Gray Book Review: Faithful Elephants Barbara J. Holt The Great Irish Famine: Life and Work in America Notable Irish Americans of the 1800s The “Name It” Game Lou Paliani

Investigating the iconic photograph of the flag raising at Iwo Jima in light of recent corrections to the roster of Marines pictured can spotlight for students the dynamic nature of historical interpretation.

Historical and contemporary issues and events do not happen in isolation. Often, students miss the connections among historical and contemporary issues and events, and through this process, they struggle to see the relevance between the past and present. Helping students make thematic connections with civil rights issues during the century after the U.S. Civil War was the focus for the project at the I3 Academy in Birmingham, Alabama. We started with the sixth grade teacher’s first unit, Reconstruction, creating a one-week instructional sequence focusing on Jim Crow segregation laws designed…

With all the expectations placed upon them, elementary educators often struggle with fitting in social studies instruction. In this webinar, we will share the pedagogical approach of teaching social studies through language arts, and combining historical thinking strategies with literacy strategies. This will be accomplished through the teacher reading trade books to engage the learners and then revealing corroborating primary sources; followed by modeling how to analyze text, as well as modeling how to think aloud. Join us to explore the benefits of integrating historical literacy and using…