Suggests how to incorporate conventional textbooks into innovational teaching in high school social studies courses. Suggestions include: ask students to alter time lines in textbooks according to their own interests, examine bias of textbook author, react to author's language, and focus on daily life during a particular historical period. (DB)

Explains how the pictures in history textbooks are potentially useful as teaching aids in social studies courses. Illustrations (reproductions of paintings, historical photographs, woodcuts, lithographs, and engravings, etc.) are important because they may be the only primary source materials to which students will be exposed. (Author/DB)