Fred Korematsu Speaks Up: Using Nonfiction with the Inquiry Arc of the C3 Framework Kristy Brugar and Jeremiah Clabough

Whose Responsibility is it to Protect the Amazon? Misty Galloway Tucker also in this issue:Creating Anti-Bullying PSAs in the ClassroomAndrea Saltzman Martin, Valerie Ooka Pang, Eric J. Ginsberg, Jennifer M. Pang, Luke Duesbery, and Edward R. Dial Surviving Eighth GradeAndrea S. Libresco

Harriet Tubman: Emancipate Yourself! Steven S. Lapham and Peter Hanes An Urgent Brief: Social Studies and Writing Skills Thomas N. Turner, Jeremiah C. Clabough, and William Cole

The one-page blueprint known as the Inquiry Design Model helps teachers outline essential elements of inquiry-based instruction and enables them to plan inquiry experiences for students.

Dramatic Narratives: Capturing the Human Side of World War II Anita Perna Bohn and Penny Britton Kolloff Ernie Pyle:The Foot Soldier’s Reporter Sandra B. Oldendorf Teenage Witnesses to the Holocaust (Book Review) Tom Kolbe The Back Page: Censorship in Times of War

Using Cartograms to Explore the Electoral College: Comparing 1908 with 2008 Peter William Moran, Kimberly Dawn Miller and Kurk Aegerter Maps, Representations of the Earth, and Biases Peter C. Cormas How Politicians Gerrymander Steven S. Lapham

The following articles have been selected from our three main journals for K-12 teachers: Social Education, Middle Level Learning, and Social Studies and the Young Learner. These articles are grouped by topic for easy reference. Also included are recent current event responses that address racism and call for human rights education. NCSS Current Events Responses (2020)Teaching about Race and Racism in the ClassroomThe African American Struggle for Civil RightsSlavery and Its LegacyRacism and Discrimination against Black, Indigenous, and People of ColorHuman Rights EducationMiddle Level…

Learning the early history of U.S. government is often confusing for middle school students. In this article, the author describes the use of the book We the People and the President to give seventh-grade students a deeper understanding of government

In this article, the author offers teaching resources and insights from a two-week unit taught with in an eighth grade U.S. history class that deconstructed the boundaries between public and private by investigating the evolution of American household labor and tools.