—Cynthia A. Tyson and KaaVonia Hinton-JohnsonLiterature about women such as African American voting rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer or political activist Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar provides prime materials for teaching about women's success in fighting social ills.58

While Hollywood has finally caught up with the times in regards to portraying the histories of LGBTQ individuals, the social studies curriculum is still lagging.

Students can learn a great deal about the economic, social, or strategic importance of a place when they examine maps, such as the featured 1910 Sanborn map of South San Francisco.

Examining newspaper articles such as the featured one from 1913 about parents intentionally exposing children to measles can highlight for students the critical connection between science literacy and citizen behavior.

Walt Whitman’s featured letter on the conditions at a Union army camp when he went in search of his wounded brother can serve as an engaging launch point for a classroom lesson on the Battle of Fredericksburg and the Civil War.

A classroom study of the gender-neutral statute known as Title IX can spark an engaging discussion on the law’s impact.

The educators’ blog space of the C3 Teachers website offers teachers a valuable opportunity to share their experiences on inquiry-based teaching and reflect on their own practices.

This probing discussion of the Electoral College offers new approaches to teaching about this often-perplexing political system. 

—Merry m. Merryfield and Binaya SubediThis article offers a range of practices to help social studies teachers increase student knowledge of the world in general and of women in particular.17

A design experiment illustrates that one way to transform civic learning is to engage young people with civic questions that are timely and relevant to their lives.