Exploring the diversity of backgrounds among victims of 9/11 offers students the opportunity to connect more personally to that historic event. 

The Cold War-era American film Salt of the Earth, which features a Latinx community, centers on a labor strike, interrogates unjust economic systems, and provides an excellent entry point for exploring difficult histories in the classroom.

The author provides a collection of noteworthy sites that can stimulate useful activities and projects for teachers and students.

Classroom projects that explore culture and globalization enhance the curriculum and help students see how geography directly connects to their lives.

By encouraging deliberation, collaboration, and production in the classroom, teachers can build a culture of trust that leads to successful social studies inquiries.

—Marsha Alibrandi and Herschel M. SarnoffRather than simply reading passages from a text, students in one Los Angeles classroom used geographic information systems to study the resources available to the North and South in the Civil War.144

When teachers create lessons that include historical sources, it’s important to pay attention to source choice and source attribution.