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.

It is a common adage that students don’t learn to read, but read to learn. Civics and history education can come alive across multiple disciplines.Come learn best practices to accomplish this goal using the Educating for American Democracy Roadmap.

Do you know what your free speech rights are, in and out of the classroom? Teachers are increasingly facing discipline for voicing unpopular views both inside and outside the classroom. Many states have introduced legislation that seeks to control what perspectives on controversial issues may be presented to students in Social Studies courses.  The program will introduce The National Coalition Against Censorship’s (NCAC) work in support of teachers’ right to free speech. The Coalition is committed to working closely with social studies educators to help them handle challenges to their…

“The Fresh Market: Connecting Content, Children, Families, and the Community,” outlines the “fresh market project” and lays out an argument for a cross-curricular approach to teach social studies in a preschool classroom. The authors outline a process in which teachers met weekly to think of ways to embed content in science, technology, reading, engineering, art, math, and social studies in an effective and engaging manner. Their narrative highlights the power of interdisciplinary work with young children, with an emphasis on social studies as the connecting thread.