Lookout Point: Preparing Young People for Longer Lives in an Aging Society Donna P. Couper and Fran Pratt Visiting and Interviewing Older Adults: Service-Learning in the Sixth Grade Alison Parker Using Political Cartoons: An Activity for Students of Every Ability Dwight C. Holliday and Janice A. Grskovic Critical Thinking and Logical Argument James A. Duplass and Dana L. Ziedler Book Review: The Thanksgiving Visitor by Truman Capote Lisa L. Owens Aging in America Donna P. Couper and Steven S. Lapham

Lookout Point: Achievement for Every Student Hayes Mizell Archaeology in the Seventh Grade:An Interdisciplinary Unit of Study Marilyn J. Eisenwine Sharing Space: Urban Wildlife and Human Society Jane Manaster The Caracara: Working with Birds and People Joan L. Morrison Life on the Wild Side Jane Manaster

Lookout Point: Let’s Talk about Sexual Harassment in Middle School Kimberly S. Palmer Service Learning and Social Studies: A Natural Fit Elizabeth A. Bloom A Zen Garden at Tecumseh: From Mocking to Honoring Leila Meyerratken A Model Rivers Project: Relating Geography and Culture Andrea Port Jacobs Book Review: We Were There Too! by Phillip Hoose Melinda Karnes Book Review: Learning on Their Feet by Carol Glynn Ronald V. Morris Musical Shares

Teaching About a Controversial Issue Steven S. Lapham State v. Tribe: How the Indian Gaming Controversy Began William L. Hewitt and Barbara Beaucar From Furs and Wampum to Slot Machines and Megadollars William L. Hewitt The Streets are Paved with Silver Barbara Beaucar and William L. Hewitt Deception and Games of Chance Steven S. Lapham Does Gaming Hurt or Help? William L. Hewitt Can You Find Me? An American Indian Guessing Game

“Did They Actually, Really Believe This?” Authentic Medical Documents as a Window on the Past Julie Riley Taking Student Government Seriously J.R. Bolen Acting Out History: From the Ice Age to the Modern Age Denee J. Mattioli and Frederick Drake Modern Times: The Industrial Revolution and the Concept of Time Frans H. Doppen

Shipwreck: Using Literature and Student Imagination toTeach Geography Donna Kay Mau What Is a Hero? Students Explore Their Conceptions of the Heroic Joseph O’Brien and Steven H.White My Brother and I: Brickyard Laborers in an Ohio Town Martha I. Pallante and Christian Shively Fostering a Critical and Caring Classroom Culture Pamela B. Joseph and Mark A. Windschitl

Serious Fun in Social Studies for Middle Schoolers Guest Editors: Dan Rea and Robert L. Stevens “The War that Never Ended:” Special Education Students Write History Diane Zigo Freedom Train: Building an Underground Railroad Wayne Hickman Using Computers to Design Historical Communities April Mock A Walk Through Time: A Living History Project Alice Aud, Gini Bland, Barbara Brown, and Bruce Law

Let Me Explain: Students as Colonial History Docents Linda L. Gesek Take a Break: A Token Economy in the Fifth Grade John M. Hail The Real World: Community Speakers in the Classroom Lindy G. Poling Whales in Depth: An Interdisciplinary Study Cynthia Szymanski Sunal, Gail Pritchard, and Dennis W. Sunal

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Memorials, and Americans with Disabilities Eric Waples The Erie Canal: An Early Public Works Project S. Kay Gandy