Communicating in an online forum advances student reasoning and decision making while enabling teachers to interact more effectively with students and the curriculum.

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.

This simulation on OPEC can help students adapt complicated economic concepts to real-life situations in an effective and engaging way.

In this installment of our newest column, a classroom teacher asks how to engage students in informed action when studying the distant past or ancient history.

Studying the Weimar Republic can help students make connections between the past and present and understand how history can inform our choices today.

Exploring digitized archives, such as the featured exhibit about a young Holocaust survivor, can spark important classroom discussions about prejudice and the responsibilities of ordinary citizens.

Using a modified ethnographic approach, this presentation takes social studies inquiry to another level of engagement by creating opportunities for students to connect the past directly to their lives. This next level of student engagement is created by introducing the participant to the methods for using anthropological concepts within a unit of study that explores connections in culture and social changes as they occurred in the past and how these same concepts are being affected in the present. The presentation is based on the Inquiry Design Model framework by creating a subset of…

When teachers create lessons that include historical sources, it’s important to pay attention to source choice and source attribution.