Using Music to Teach about the Great Depression

By Robert L. Stevens, Jared A. Fogel

Students will gain new perspectives on the socio-economic circumstances of the Great Depression through an analysis of song lyrics of the time.

Teaching about Genocide in a New Millennium

By James G. Brown

Should digital simulations be used to teach about such tragedies as the genocide in Darfur?

Congo: Elections and the Battle for Mineral Resources

By Social Education Staff

Teaching about current events in the Democratic Republic of the Congo can illustrate for students the connection between technologies we enjoy in the Westcell phones, laptops and play stationsand fighting in a mineral-rich nation.

Search and Seizure in the Schools

By Kari Staros, Charles F. Williams

Students will learn about key Fourth Amendment concepts and the extent to which the amendment's protections apply to their lives in and out of school.

Website Potpourri

By C. Frederick Risinger

The author provides a collection of noteworthy sites that can stimulate useful activities and projects for teachers and students.

Comparing International Textbooks to Develop Historical Thinking

By John J. DeRose

This lesson plan offers students the opportunity to compare how American and Vietnamese textbooks portray specific events of the Vietnam War.

Building the Relationships That Matter

By Peggy Altoff

By nurturing our professional relationships, we can increase public recognition of the vital role of social studies.

The Saffron Scourge: Society, Politics and Disease

By Diane Luke, Ann Winkler

By taking a closer look at various Yellow Fever outbreaks, the authors demonstrate for students the social, governmental, and economic impact of epidemics upon cities.

How Robert Scheer's Playing President Might Help Remediate the Problem of Shallow Textbooks and Political Apathy

By Reviewed by James Michael

Mamer Books such as Playing President: My Close Encounters with Nixon, Carter, Bush I, Reagan, and Clintonand How They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush can help raise awareness of contemporary politics and history.

Protective Custody: Prisoner 34042

By Reviewed by Sanford Gutman

This memoir of a Holocaust survivor offers a unique perspective on the experience of women in concentration camps.

Editor's Notebook

Leters to the Editor

Nobel Peace Laureate Muhammad Yunus: A Banker Who Believes Credit is a Human Right

By Michelle Yvonne Szpara, Iftikhar Ahmad, Patricia Velde Pederson

The Nobel Committee's 2006 peace prize selectiona microfinance organization and its founderoffers teachers an opportunity to explore links between poverty and peace.

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Life Behind the Wall: Palestinian Students Online

By Doug Hart

English classes seemed boring to the author's tenth-grade Ramallah students, until they decided to launch the first Palestinian online youth magazine.