Presents a lesson plan for teaching about the role of African-American religious leaders in the U.S. civil rights movement. Provides scripts with which students play the roles of various members of a community. Explains that students decide which speakers would be most likely to lead the local civil rights movement. (SG)

Discusses the changes in journalism occurring during the growth of private enterprise in the United States. Focuses on newspapers in Chicago and other midwestern cities. Describes Joseph Pulitzer's "New York World" as the culmination of the urbanization of U.S. journalism, recognizing the development of public interdependence in a…

Reports on a role-playing activity concerning the U.S. Constitutional Convention. Explains how the program evolved through discussion, planning, organization, research, rehearsal, dress rehearsal, and performance. Identifies ensuring that people read and understand the Constitution's contents and origins as the major reason for the activity.…

Discusses the development of the modern U.S. Thanksgiving celebration from the earlier traditions of ancient English harvest festivals, solemn religious observances, and the commemoration of the Pilgrims' landing known as Forefathers' Day. Presents primary source material including excerpts from journals by William Bradford and Abraham Lincoln's…

Presents an annotated bibliography of nine ERIC documents on the history of U.S. foreign policy. Includes teacher resource materials and instructional guides. (CFR)

Introduces a journal issue devoted to the New York Stock Exchange. Describes the formation and development of the stock exchange and Wall Street. Discusses the connection between politics and finance and the economic changes in formerly socialist nations. Suggests that the New York Stock Exchange may have to convert to a computer trading system.…

Disagrees with the tone and conclusions of the special section on United States-Japan relations in the November-December, 1991 issue. Contends that the national interests of the United States were ignored to avoid "Japan Bashing" over trade and other economic issues. Calls for a more realistic view of Japan's trade policies toward the…

This K-8 activity helps students visually highlight the lives of notable women using 3-D biography boxes. Students read a biography, create the boxes, fill in all six sides with pictures and information, place one item in the box that their subjects would treasure, and make class presentations. A sample box is provided. (SM)

Providing options in perspective helps children understand that history and the social sciences are made up of many different sources and points of view. By incorporating multiple perspectives, teachers provide rich opportunities for children to think like historians, and to use their critical thinking skills in solving the puzzle of how history…

Recent remarks by Maryland's governor Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr. referring to multiculturalism as "bunk" have rekindled the debate on multicultural studies as "soft" history and social science. Richard Vatz of Towson University, as reported in The Washington Times (23 May 2004), noted that "People support it (multiculturalism) without knowing what it…

Eleanor Roosevelt could be called a Superstar First Lady. In the era when women's suffrage was first being exercised, she was "pushing the envelope" of what the President's wife, and women in general, might be expected to do in civic life. She wrote syndicated columns for magazines and newspapers, the most famous of which was entitled "My Day," a…

A scope and sequence for teaching elementary and secondary social studies is provided in a subject-by-subject format. Designed to meet the requirements of North Carolina's competency-based curriculum, materials may also be useful to other states and localities. Following a foreword and acknowledgments, material is divided into three main sections.…

Designed for elementary and junior high school teachers, this instructional guide provides background information on the social, cultural, and historical contributions of American Indians, African-Americans, and Jewish Americans of the middle Georgia area to the life and development of the community and state and to national heritage. A staff…

Encapsulates a complete lesson plan suitable for secondary, U.S. history, social studies, or African American history courses. Begins with a concise overview of the development of a residential and business community among the African Americans in post-Civil War Cairo, Illinois. Includes teaching suggestions, learning activities, and handouts.…

"Differentiating Instruction With Menus Grades 3-5" offers teachers everything they need to create a student-centered learning environment based on choice. Addressing the four main subject areas (language arts, math, science, and social studies) and the major concepts taught within these areas, these books provide a number of different types of…