Primary Source of the Day:A Warm Up Activity Amy Trenkle Highlights in History: Teaching with Differentiated Instruction Kay A. Chick Racing Around the World: A Geography Contest to Remember C. Steven Page Racing Around the World Questions      

Slavery After the Civil War The Convict-Lease System, 1866-1928 It Makes a Long-Time Man Feel Bad Christine Adrian The Convict-Lease System, 1866-1928  (Three Lessons) with four readings and two worksheets  

Shipwreck: Using Literature and Student Imagination toTeach Geography Donna Kay Mau What Is a Hero? Students Explore Their Conceptions of the Heroic Joseph O’Brien and Steven H.White My Brother and I: Brickyard Laborers in an Ohio Town Martha I. Pallante and Christian Shively Fostering a Critical and Caring Classroom Culture Pamela B. Joseph and Mark A. Windschitl

The Lower East Side Tenement Museum: A Window on Immigrant Life Adam Steinberg and Michael J. Berson The Assignment Journal: A Student-Created Resource and Organizing System David W. Denton The Centennial of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: Teaching Resources  

Serious Fun in Social Studies for Middle Schoolers Guest Editors: Dan Rea and Robert L. Stevens “The War that Never Ended:” Special Education Students Write History Diane Zigo Freedom Train: Building an Underground Railroad Wayne Hickman Using Computers to Design Historical Communities April Mock A Walk Through Time: A Living History Project Alice Aud, Gini Bland, Barbara Brown, and Bruce Law

Comparing FSA Photographs by Ben Shahn: A Lesson in Media Literacy Robert J. Stevens and Jared A. Fogel Drummer Boys: Creating Historical Fiction and Studying Historical Documents

Hard Times in the USA The Great Depression “Maybe You Could Help?” Letters to Eleanor Roosevelt Mary Mason Royal Will the Senate Confirm “Karl B. Fennin”? William E. Amburn Ben Franklin’s Evolving View on Race and Ethnicity Steven S. Lapham and Drew Saunders The Game of History: A Creative Review Activity Christine Bell Your Move! History Board Games

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Memorials, and Americans with Disabilities Eric Waples The Erie Canal: An Early Public Works Project S. Kay Gandy  

Lookout Point: Abolitionists Among the Founding Fathers Kevin Brady Runaway Slave Advertisements: Teaching from Primary Documents Tom Costa and Brooks Doyle Teaching About Immigration, Past and Present Susan Pass Facts about Our Immigrants

Civil War Drummer Boys: Integrating Music into Social StudiesJing A. Williams, Deborah Check Reeves, and Paige M. Wright Mission Impossible: Turning Essays on Enduring Issues into Respectful Ethical Debates Jennifer Ingold