As an elementary school prepared to move to a larger building, the entire community joined together to create a time capsule for their counterparts of the future.

Students' natural fascination with buried treasures and lost civilizations means that the study of archaeology can be an excellent manner of developing skills of historical investigation.

Recent Disney movies spotlighting intelligent female characters who work hard and do not define themselves in terms of men illustrate a major change from the formulaic fairy tales portraying female inferiority and dependency.

“The Fresh Market: Connecting Content, Children, Families, and the Community,” outlines the “fresh market project” and lays out an argument for a cross-curricular approach to teach social studies in a preschool classroom. The authors outline a process in which teachers met weekly to think of ways to embed content in science, technology, reading, engineering, art, math, and social studies in an effective and engaging manner. Their narrative highlights the power of interdisciplinary work with young children, with an emphasis on social studies as the connecting thread.

Mock excavations, or dig boxes, offer students a hands-on opportunity to explore artifacts and to learn the principles of context and soil stratigraphy.

The selected websites provide information and lesson plans for educating students about the looming food crisis, soil degradation, and other natural forces threatening humankind.

A curriculum developed in The Netherlands offers exciting opportunities for students to consider domestic water use, its impact on other countries, and the global need for water conservation.

In this multi-day investigation of teenage homelessness during the Great Depression, students use a range of technologiessearch engines, blogs, and podcasting toolsto investigate the political, economic, and social history of the time.