The findings of the authors’ research study demonstrate ways that social studies teachers can address the classroom needs of multilingual students with digital primary sources.

A few key strategies related to the selection and framing of issues, pedagogical choices, and classroom atmosphere can pave the way for successfully teaching controversial issues in fraught times.

The authors recommend important steps and strategies to help schools and educators reduce or prevent bullying.

By encouraging deliberation, collaboration, and production in the classroom, teachers can build a culture of trust that leads to successful social studies inquiries.

When teachers create lessons that include historical sources, it’s important to pay attention to source choice and source attribution. 

The specific scaffolds and strategy instructions outlined in this article will help students engage in the complex task of historical inquiry. 

By merging disciplinary inquiry and critical inquiry, the C3 Framework has helped teachers engage students in developing deep content knowledge about issues relevant to their lives.

The use of extended reality opens the way for rich, focused student inquiry into topics like the Holocaust, the civil rights movement, or Greek Art. 

Reading and analyzing poetry by World War I American soldiers can reveal a great deal about the life and observations of servicemen.