Colleen Swain, Rachael Sharpe, and Kara DawsonThe authors promote video as a powerful classroom tool that helps learners convey meaning while making their messages more easily interpreted by others. 158

Students become deeply immersed in stories and their related social studies content with Lit Trips, which enable the hands-on explorations of text, by incorporating digital mapping tools, videos, and photographs.

Rather than battle Wikipedia's stronghold in students' lives, teachers should seize the opportunity to teach students how to read Wikipedia through a critical lens.

In this article, the author examines how the New York State Social Studies Resource Toolkit  supports argument discourse in social studies and then explores a primary teacher’s curricular and instructional decisions regarding the development of children’s argumentation skills. The study provides insights into how teachers can involve some of our youngest students in authentic, inquiry-based social studies learning that fosters argument discourse.

In this article, we offer resources and activities that highlight Patsy Mink's congressional achieve- ments and experiences, and push young students to think about the institution of Congress with a gendered lens.

Aiming to correct myths about the Viet Nam War, this author regularly leads groups of students to learn about the country firsthand.

A close look at the information highlighting Black social and cultural achievements in W.E.B. Du Bois’s 1900 Paris Exposition can springboard into an enriching lesson on African American history.