Lookout Point: Achievement for Every Student Hayes Mizell Archaeology in the Seventh Grade:An Interdisciplinary Unit of Study Marilyn J. Eisenwine Sharing Space: Urban Wildlife and Human Society Jane Manaster The Caracara: Working with Birds and People Joan L. Morrison Life on the Wild Side Jane Manaster

Teaching About the Nanking Massacre to Middle School Students Justin Villet The First War Hawks: The Invasion of Canada in 1812 Steven Sellers Lapham

How to Be an American This article contains two video resources. (also linked below) Judge Lucy Koh: “Be Fully Engaged in Democracy”Karen Korematsu: “You Can Make a Difference” Conflict, Service, and Civic InvolvementSarah K. Anderson

A Treasured Island: Human and Geographic Interaction on Cumberland Robert L. Stevens and Julia A. Celebi Teaching History as Perspective Taking: The Colonial Convention Mac Duis and Sandra S. Duis The Community as a Laboratory for Student Learning Joseph Ciaccio Coming of Age Ceremonies: A Mask Project Alan Singer, Laura Gurton, Aimee Horowitz, Stephanie Hunte, Paula Broomfield, and Joanne Thomas

Researching Our School’s History Amy Trenkle Our School as Living History Candyce Sweda A Trash-Free Lunch Experiment Alison Davis-Holland, Sue Annis, and Steven S. Lapham Bears in the Air Facing the Future

Philip Reid and the Statue of Freedom Eugene Walton Casting Freedom, 1860-1862 Restoring Freedom, 1993 An Abolitionist Cartoon, 1830

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

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

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.

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.