Students will gain important insight and foster critical skills when they analyze how

Mock excavations, or dig boxes, offer students a hands-on opportunity to explore artifacts and to learn the principles of context and soil stratigraphy.

Students' natural fascination with buried treasures and lost civilizations means that the study of archaeology can be an excellent manner of developing skills of historical investigation.

As an elementary school prepared to move to a larger building, the entire community joined together to create a time capsule for their counterparts of the future.

The selected websites provide information and lesson plans for educating students about the looming food crisis, soil degradation, and other natural forces threatening humankind.

In this multi-day investigation of teenage homelessness during the Great Depression, students use a range of technologiessearch engines, blogs, and podcasting toolsto investigate the political, economic, and social history of the time.

New technological tools that imitate real life phenomena, such as agent-based modeling and simulations, help students explore how individual actions can contribute to the emergence of social patterns.

A detailed curricular loop that enables students to regularly engage in an inquiry presents a meaningful way of teaching hard history. 

This article outlines a project-based learning approach developed by one of the authors, a veteran Seattle teacher, for a high school government course.

Three key discussion options offer social studies teachers a choice of approaches for navigating controversial issues in the classroom.