Enrich your students’ views and understanding of historical events, cultural diversity, and global issues through the use of web-based strategies that utilize current non-fiction resources (e.g., memoirs, newspaper articles, etc.) to improve reading comprehension, content knowledge, and interdisciplinary writing skills.

Join this session and be inspired to integrate social studies and the language arts of reading, writing, listening and speaking through a wide range of strategies and resources that will make 5th grade U.S. History come alive for your students.

The paper will address the current status of social studies teaching and research. Dr. Field will share some of her own work and include other bodies of work significant to the directions of profession. The presentation will also offer an imperative and challenge for the future of the social studies field.

Flipping classrooms? Economics lessons and resources are now available for teachers and students in a rich blended learning environment. Assign lectures and videos as homework and use class time to achieve economics learning.

Explore heroes and villains through the analysis of primary source documents from history's greatest "villain" Fidel Castro and unsung young heroes of the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War.

How do you construct a curriculum that includes positive representations of LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) people, history and events? This session will provide guidance on content development as well as examples of available resources and instructional strategies.

This new documentary tells the story of the 41st Infantry Division during World War II. Veterans recount their experiences, from guarding the Oregon and Washington coastline, through battles in the Pacific, to occupation duty in the Hiroshima district of Japan.

This online and face-to-face education program utilizes the best of tech-ed and constructivist learning methods to transform classrooms into countries and students into citizens. Students don't just learn about law, government, and economics, they get to participate in their own mini-versions of them.

This online and face-to-face education program utilizes the best of tech-ed and constructivist learning methods to transform classrooms into countries and students into citizens. Students don't just learn about law, government, and economics, they get to participate in their own mini-versions of them.

Students are ill-prepared for the social crisis of our times: our democracy has been hijacked. Lessons explore constitutional history, human values at the core of democracy, and action plans.