Successful inquiries using the C3 Framework depend on compelling questions that structure an inquiry and supporting questions that allow the inquiry to unfold coherently.
Learning about freedom of information laws, and how to request and examine public records, can provide students with a deeper understanding of how government works.
Examining the featured letter from Thomas Jefferson about a solar eclipse can spark an engaging classroom lesson on the role of science in the early nineteenth century.
A 9/11 Memorial Museum exhibit of New Yorker magazine covers offers a framework for teaching about September 11th to a generation of students with no memory of that day.
The selected websites provide lesson plans and student activities for teaching about this year’s 100th anniversary of the U.S. entry into World War I. The Surfing the Net column also appears as a blog at connected.socialstudies.org/blogs
The selected primary sources can inspire a lesson on the historical connection between community building, citizenship education, and school athletic programs.
An interactive website offers rich teaching materials for a lesson on Negro League ball players and their experiences free of segregation in Latin American winter leagues.
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.
Integrating sports into the classroom offers an engaging opportunity to explore issues of culture, race, gender, religion, and sexual orientation with K-12 students.
Babe Didrikson pushed gender limits, fought social stigma, and broke records. Suggested teaching activities will engage students in research and critical thinking about Didrikson and why her vast achievements are largely unknown.