Laura H. Darolia

The Home Front during the Civil War: Embattled Lives and Endurance in Ohio Stephen M. Charter Using Graphic Novels to Promote Social Studies Literacy Jeremiah Clabough and Kenneth T. Carano

Using Children’s Diaries to Teach the Oregon Trail Richard M. Wyman, Jr. Living the Geography of Joseph and Temperance Bown Katherine A. Young The ABCs of Small Grant Acquisition for Social Studies Teachers Bruce Sliger Isomo Loruko: The Yoruba Naming Ceremony Patricia Kafi and Alan Singer Child Laborers in Children’s Literature Linda Leonard Lamme

Fred Korematsu Speaks Up: Using Nonfiction with the Inquiry Arc of the C3 Framework Kristy Brugar and Jeremiah Clabough

Teaching controversial issues is both pressing and difficult in today’s world. Many teachers fear that these issues will spark classroom conflict, backlash, or harm to students. This two-part webinar is for novice and experienced teachers, teacher educators, and school leaders who want to develop the practice of teaching controversial issues. Dr. Judy Pace of the University of San Francisco, Dr. Eric Soto-Shed of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Dr. Elizabeth Washington of the University of Florida will lead these interactive sessions and facilitate discussion among participants…

By Peggy Jackson, NCSS President (2016–2017), shown at right. Democracy is alive and well at NCSS. Members’ votes for the 2017–2018 Board of Directors and Officers were tallied, and the results are as follows: Our new Vice President is Tina Heafner, and she is in line to become NCSS President in 2019.  NCSS members also elected four members to three-year terms on the Board of Directors. Joseph Karb, a teacher at Springville Middle School, Springville, New York, and Shannon Pugh, a Secondary Social Studies Teacher Specialist for Anne Arundel County Public Schools in Annapolis, Maryland,…

These key prompts can help social studies teachers and students gauge a compelling question’s rigor, relevance, and functionality.

The featured primary documents related to white violence against African Americans in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1921, and Red Cross relief efforts, can springboard into an important classroom discussion about who gets to tell history.

Stephanie Schroeder

TSSP: It’s a pleasure to have you with us today to discuss a very important and hot topic in social studies and communications. Fake news! But first, congratulations on receiving the 2018 National Council for the Social Studies Exemplary Research in Social Studies Award. Please give us a brief summary of your award-winning research titled “Grabbing the Third Rail: Teaching Politics in Secondary Education.” Journell: That presentation was a general overview of a decade’s worth of research on teaching politics, political processes, and…