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Levy, Tedd – Social Education, 1995
Presents a role-playing activity based on political and legal issues surrounding a mutiny on a Spanish slave ship that landed on U.S. soil in 1839. Includes learning objectives, background information, and role descriptions. Suggests student writing assignments and further research projects. (CFR)
Descriptors: Black History, Blacks, Court Litigation, Court Role
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Gorn, Cathy – OAH Magazine of History, 1995
Discusses the 1996 National History Day program and theme: "Taking a Stand in History: Individuals, Groups, Movements." Presents a list of possible student projects. Includes a bibliography of recommended books. (CFR)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Democratic Values, Dissent, Educational Strategies
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Levy, Martha K. – Journal of American History, 1994
Describes the personal development of a private-school teacher involved in course restructuring in U.S. history. Lists and discusses the use of seven themes as the basis for the course. Concludes that history, more than any other subject, is linked to personal identity. (CFR)
Descriptors: Course Content, Cultural Pluralism, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
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Avery, Beth; And Others – Social Education, 1994
Describes a cooperative-learning program jointly developed by computer education and world history teachers in which secondary students create mock newspapers. Asserts that the project fulfilled cross-disciplinary objectives and encouraged critical thinking skills. Includes examples from the student-created newspapers. (CFR)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Cooperative Learning, Critical Thinking, Educational Strategies
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Marek, Rosanne; Wires, Richard – OAH Magazine of History, 1990
Describes a reading series to personalize classroom study of immigration. Includes two readings about Ellis Island and German immigrants in Colonial America. Appropriate questions accompany each reading with a list of classroom activities and additional resources, including films, for secondary level classroom use. (NL)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Colonial History (United States), Cultural Pluralism, Ethnic Studies
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Laughlin, Margaret – Social Education, 1994
Describes the origins and work of the Women's Land Army, a World War I British volunteer agricultural production unit. Details similar program in the United States. Identifies the impact of the Women's Land Army including enhanced political, economic, and physical freedom for the participants and future generations of women. (CFR)
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Elementary Secondary Education, European History, Females
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Bigelow, Bill, Ed. – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 1996
Assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the interactive CD-ROM "The Oregon Trail." Maintains that, although the program offers a sympathetic portrayal of Native Americans, it is still rife with cultural bias. The simulation's structure accentuates the white male experience at the expense of others. (MJP)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation, Computer Software Evaluation, Computer Uses in Education
Sass, Charles R. – 1996
Designed to help students better understand the controversial issue of affirmative action, this teacher's guide supplements the thirty-minute instructional videotape of the same name. The videotape explores the history of affirmative action in the United States, including its successes, failures, and future. The videotape and the teacher's guide…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Citizenship Education, Civics, Civil Liberties
Stewart, James; Giese, James R. – 1989
This booklet is part of a series of units designed to help students take and defend a position on public issues. The booklet is premised on the idea that the study of how various labor-related conflicts were resolved in the past can throw light on the problem of how they ought to be resolved here and now. That is why this particular unit looks at…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Employer Employee Relationship, Employers, History Instruction
California State Univ., Los Angeles. National Dissemination and Assessment Center. – 1982
The booklet is part of a grade 10-12 social studies series produced for bilingual education. The series consists of six major thematic modules, with four to five booklets in each. The interdisciplinary modules are based on major ideas and are designed to help students understand some major human problems and make sound, responsive decisions to…
Descriptors: Bilingual Instructional Materials, Economics, Education, Family Role
Isaac, Katherine – 1992
Intended to help students learn that citizenship involves more than freedom and liberties, this book encourages students to participate in their schools and communities, to study the long tradition of citizen action in the United States, and to practice citizenship skills. Section 1 provides seven profiles of students who have worked to make…
Descriptors: Activism, Citizen Participation, Citizen Role, Citizenship
Scott, John A., Ed.; Seidman, Laurence I., Ed. – Folksong in the Classroom, 1982
The second volume of a newsletter for integrating folk music into elementary and secondary social studies, literature, and humanities courses, this publication contains three issues of the newsletter which together offer a compilation of folksongs from various historical periods and cultures. The first issue of this volume contains miscellaneous…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Civil War (United States), Elementary Secondary Education, Folk Culture
Suter, Coral; Croddy, Marshall – 1985
This teacher's guide is part of a curriculum designed for infusion into secondary U.S. history courses to help students explore purposes of American law. In the curriculum students study about legal decision making during the American colonial period, explore methods our legal system uses to establish facts, learn that individual liberty is a…
Descriptors: American Indians, Child Labor, Citizenship Education, Civil Liberties
Lo Guidice, Tom, Comp. – 1997
This publication consists of six units for middle and high school grades that incorporate school-to-work (STW). The six units were developed by six practicing teachers. The first unit, "Wellness: An Integrated Unit with STW Emphasis for Seventh Grade" (Sara Hellenbrand), provides STW objectives and a list of activities. The second unit,…
Descriptors: Advertising, Climate, Distributive Education, Earth Science
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Nelson, Murry R. – Social Studies, 1997
Explores the production, distribution, and content of the, "Horrors of War," a series of trading cards produced between 1938 and 1942. Created by a Baptist advertising executive the cards used graphic images to communicate an antiwar message to young adolescents. Discusses possible learning activities used in conjunction with the cards.…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Conflict, Cultural Images, Foreign Countries
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