Even without in-person field trips, photographs stored online can stimulate enriching investigations of historic places.

Strategically designed word walls can help students build the vocabulary needed to ask and explore important questions in the social studies.

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.

A “Dinner with Democracy” event encourages civil discourse, promotes deliberation, and exposes students to different perspectives. 

By confronting our inaccurate beliefs about youth apathy, we can engage and expand youth voter participation.

This probing discussion of the Electoral College offers new approaches to teaching about this often-perplexing political system. 

Teaching students about the history and patterns of authoritarianism can help bolster our own collective awareness of the vulnerability of democracy.

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