The author traveled to the area of South Sudan just months before that country’s independence from the North. In this article, he outlines crisis points that continue to threaten the region’s stability.

This article outlines a project-based learning approach developed by one of the authors, a veteran Seattle teacher, for a high school government course.

The authors outline the basic ideas behind the stock market along with its ties to consumer economics and how world events impact us all. They argue that this approach is an engaging way to teach elementary students (in grades 4–6) economic responsibility, and they detail some basic steps needed to get started.

Social Education launches a new discussion column with a conversation about formative assessment.

From maps, graphs, and tables to photographs and political cartoons, social studies is replete with potentially rich visual images for students to analyze. Yet, elementary students often struggle to understand the information within such graphics. In this article, we first provide an overview of some commonly used graphics, and then suggest a way to approach an upper elementary lesson that incorporates the use of a graphical analysis strategy aligned with the C3 Framework to help prepare students to be effective, critical consumers and producers of such visuals.

Immersive virtual reality experiences offer an innovative approach to oral history and can foster students’ emotional connection with distant historical events.

An examination of inherent racial and social inequities in professional sports may give students deeper insight into the systemic inequities that plague our society as a whole.

A teacher at an International Baccalaureate school in Brazil describes how a human rights unit exploring U.S. or UN decisions from multiple viewpoints helped reinvigorate his social studies courses.

A study abroad program in Ghana helps preservice teachers gain new perspectives and develop culturally relevant educational practices.

Students will sharpen their critical thinking skills when they take a close look at the complex issue of the relationship between security and constitutional rights.