The featured websites provide a glimpse of the countless resourcessuch as textbooks, trade books, maps, supplementary materials, and audio-visual materialsavailable in the NCSS conference exhibit hall.

Primary Source of the Day:A Warm Up Activity Amy Trenkle Highlights in History: Teaching with Differentiated Instruction Kay A. Chick Racing Around the World: A Geography Contest to Remember C. Steven Page Racing Around the World Questions      

Pull-out from Social Studies and the Young Learner. Includes list of children's books about elections.   

In this article, the author describes three inquiry activities based on a children’s book set in the Philippines during World War II. In many U.S. history and modern world history curricula and textbooks, events in the Philippines (and more generally in the Pacific theater) during World War II are not covered well.

Slavery After the Civil War The Convict-Lease System, 1866-1928 It Makes a Long-Time Man Feel Bad Christine Adrian The Convict-Lease System, 1866-1928  (Three Lessons) with four readings and two worksheets  

In “Teaching about the Vietnam War: Centering Southeast Asian Refugee Voices through Children’s Literature,” Sohyun An provides content and pedagogic knowledge for teaching about the Vietnam War through Southeast Asian refugee children’s books. The author provides a brief overview of the war from Southeast Asian perspectives and describes two elementary schoolteachers’ instructional approaches to center Southeast Asian refugee experiences to the Vietnam War lessons. Along with this article, An also created the pullout for this issue, “Handouts and Resources for Teaching about the Vietnam War…

A textbook author reflects on the ethical and ideological choices she made in her quest to create a history book that would be relevant to demographically diverse high school students.

An examination of three recent Supreme Court cases and two that are upcoming can generate stimulating classroom debate on issues ranging from Native American interests to Fourth Amendment rights.

Shipwreck: Using Literature and Student Imagination toTeach Geography Donna Kay Mau What Is a Hero? Students Explore Their Conceptions of the Heroic Joseph O’Brien and Steven H.White My Brother and I: Brickyard Laborers in an Ohio Town Martha I. Pallante and Christian Shively Fostering a Critical and Caring Classroom Culture Pamela B. Joseph and Mark A. Windschitl

The Lower East Side Tenement Museum: A Window on Immigrant Life Adam Steinberg and Michael J. Berson The Assignment Journal: A Student-Created Resource and Organizing System David W. Denton The Centennial of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: Teaching Resources