As it becomes increasingly essential to include China in the social studies curriculum, teachers are faced with the challenges of finding appropriate, high-quality resources, and, more fundamentally, of engaging students with a culture and a place far removed from their own. Film and video can address both issues, and there is a wealth of…

The author identifies some guidelines for teachers to use in selecting and evaluating media. A criteria checklist in question format is included in an attempt to clarify potentially useful media for teachers. (SM)

A selected list of audiovisual materials useful for teaching the Bicentennial are annotated including a review of Bicentennial biographies. (JR)

An annotated guide to reference materials for social studies multimedia programs is provided. (DE)

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)

Specific learning activities to increase the visual literacy of elementary students by involving them in the production of their own materials are described. (DE)

Reviews a series of films entitled "Equal Justice Under Law" and suggests how the films might be used in secondary and college classes. The major objective of the films is to help students understand the role of the early Court in establishing the American system of government. (Author/RM)

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)

Trends in the production of social studies instructional media are described. (DE)

Fourteen films, filmstrips, and film series on the Middle East are reviewed for K-12 educators. Both the purchasing and rental costs are included in each review. (JR)

A sample of supplementary materials, grouped according to media format into real materials, multimedia materials, paperbacks, games, and simulations to enrich the new social studies curriculum, are identified in the resource guide. The article concludes with a list of sources of supplementary materials, and an abbreviated games and simulations…

The author describes some of the past and current trends in the field of educational film production and identifies many films useful in social studies classes. (Author/DE)

The author discusses the special potential of nonnarrated films over traditional films and cites many film titles for possible classroom use. (Author/DE)

Presents six social studies teaching materials comprised of filmstrips with accompanying cassettes and teacher's guides. Content and activities focus on life in the universe, ocean rights, the environment, foreign cultures, social problems, and listening and research skills. (AV)