Wireless Fever! Gay Parents Do Exist:Letting the Rabbit Out of the Hat Debra Chasnoff Radio Days in the Classroom Dan Schuchat Design a Book: A Quest in Ancient Egypt David Cooper Bandwidth Problems ca. 1912: The Need for Federal Regulation

Dramatic Narratives: Capturing the Human Side of World War II Anita Perna Bohn and Penny Britton Kolloff Ernie Pyle:The Foot Soldier’s Reporter Sandra B. Oldendorf Teenage Witnesses to the Holocaust (Book Review) Tom Kolbe The Back Page: Censorship in Times of War

This article offers examples of classroom texts as vehicles for teaching each BHC principle as encouragement for teaching Black histories long beyond Black History Month. For summaries of the texts suggested in this article, see the Pullout in this issue, which pairs each Black Historical Consciousness principle with children’s books and ideas for further investigation.

Creating photoblogs in the social studies classroom builds on students’ interest in using images to convey messages while teaching important media literacy skills.

The Haitian Revolution was the largest and most successful slave revolt in the world. Why is it rarely discussed or taught in U.S. classrooms?   

Teaching Ancient and Medieval Africa with the History Bento Box ProjectAnna Mariah Mills Racial Literacy Book Clubs in Middle School: Five Things to ConsiderJoanna Batt  

Teaching about the civil rights movement in the elementary grades has, in many schools, focused exclusively on the lives of Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks. Many students are well versed in the content of King’s “I Have A Dream” speech, and they know well that Rosa did not give up her seat on the bus. While these moments and heroes of the movement are essential in the study of this era in history, the study of more obscure and lesser known people and events is a great way to deepen our students’ understanding of the sacrifices that so many thousands of ordinary people made in the…

Each year, NCSS seeks approximately five new members to serve on our Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People Book Committee. The book committee consists of 15 members who review, evaluate, and select social studies trade books for our annual bibliography: "Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People." The "Notables" contain 100-200 titles selected from as many as 900 books submitted by publishers each year. The list is published annually in the May/June issue of Social Education. See previous Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People Lists. Requirements…

Enabling students to pose and answer their own questions helps them evolve from passive learners to students who are actively engaged in their coursework.

The C3 Framework by NCSS has caused a great deal of change over the last decade. The lead authors of the C3 Framework stress that K-12 social studies teachers need to develop their students’ disciplinary literacy, thinking, and argumentation skills in the four core disciplines of the field: history, civics, geography, and economics (Lee & Swan, 2013; NCSS, 2013). To accomplish these goals, social studies teachers need to meaningfully integrate primary and secondary sources for their students to analyze and use evidence from their research to take civic action (Levinson & Levine, 2013…