Social Education October 2021
Social Education October 2021
Volume:85
Num:5
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Editor's Notebook
Editor's Notebook October 2021
This issue of Social Education offers a rich set of articles on important topics for social studies teachers that range from engaging students in historical inquiry to promoting equity in the classroom and celebrating the mission of social studies education to prepare students for active democratic citizenship.
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Getting Serious About Sourcing Information:Considerations for Teachers and Teacherpreneurs
When teachers create lessons that include historical sources, it’s important to pay attention to source choice and source attribution.
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Teaching the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals: Ideas for Social Studies Educators
Investigating the UN Sustainable Development Goals in the social studies classroom offers rich opportunities to explore global citizenship themes such as human rights, poverty, justice, and protecting the planet.
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Cooperative Learning in the Time of C3
Cooperative learning stimulates student engagement and spurs deep thinking and classroom discussion.
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Disrupting Inequity by Building Classroom Instruction from the Assumption of Each Student’s Brilliance
We can disrupt inequity in the classroom by generating a more expansive understanding of what and who counts as worthy.
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Op-Eds: Illuminating the Present with the Past through Student Inquiry
The exercise of writing opinion pieces allows students to explore real-world issues while challenging their understanding of the past.
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Lessons on the Law
Supreme Court Ends an Unprecedented Term and Readies for Another
Reviewing recent or upcoming Supreme Court cases with students can spark a range of stimulating constitutional lessons.
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Sources and Strategies
Motivating Student Research about the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 with a WPA Life History
Examining life stories recorded through the Depression-era Federal Writers’ Project can launch classroom lessons on specific events like the 1871 Chicago fire or broader lessons on the Works Progress Administration and New Deal programs.
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Teaching the C3 Framework
Scaffolding Historical Source Work Using the Inquiry Design Model (IDM)
The specific scaffolds and strategy instructions outlined in this article will help students engage in the complex task of historical inquiry.
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NCSS Centennial
Civic Education: The Mission of NCSS
From its inception, NCSS has focused on preparing a democratic citizenry and providing social studies educators with a civic education roadmap.
