The purpose of this article is to review four educational issues introduced by this author in previous articles (Beyer 2004, 2015) that faced the Kingdom of Hawai'i in order to investigate the educational policies taken to address these issues by the White Architects of Hawaiian education. The American Protestant missionaries, who arrived in…

State history can connect to the lives of immigrant children. By discovering history's humanizing narratives, students can become more engaged with the curriculum and more appreciative of their roles as state, national, and global citizens. In Texas, students study state history in the fourth and seventh grades. Considering the continual increase…

Reviews the legal history of including religion in the curriculum and maintains that religion may have been the most important determinant of human behavior throughout history. Outlines an instructional model based on California and Illinois state histories and includes four themes that structure the model. (CFR)

The document contains the narrative portion of a multimedia project tracing the history of Jews in Michigan from the mid 17th to the mid 20th century. The developers intended that the materials be used as the basis of a one-month course of study. Overall objectives of the project were to increase understanding among students from junior high…

Documents history of Lowell, Massachusetts, from the careful planning of town, the recruitment of farm family daughters into the labor force, the demise of the town, and Lowell's subsequent regeneration as a high technology center in the 1970s and 1980s. Suggests that the study of this town's history can illuminate the study of current U.S. urban…

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…

This book is an in depth study of Ukrainian Americans in Maryland. The book was published now lest educators, governmental officials, curriculum planners, and librarians continue certain stances of "selected inattention" about Ukrainians and other East Europeans in American studies. Chapter 1 examines the European background of the…

This workbook provides elementary and junior high school students with an opportunity to trace the social, cultural, and historical contributions of the American Indian, African-American, and Jewish American population groups living in the middle Georgia area. The workbook coincides with the information sections given in the instructional guide,…

The ethnic heritage of the state of Iowa is explored in this theme issue of Iowa's children's history magazine, "The Goldfinch." Through the numerous activities, photographs, games, and articles, answers to such questions as: Why did people from different ethnic groups come to Iowa? and What challenges have ethnic groups faced? begin to…

Designed to help Iowa teachers implement the multicultural, nonsexist education mandated by state law, this resource book contains over 100 social studies activities for use in primary, intermediate, and junior high level classes. Exercises for each grade level focus on self, family, neighborhood, community, state, and nation. Primary grade group…

This document, intended for elementary students, contains articles and activities designed to acquaint young people with the history of Des Moines, Iowa. The articles are short, and new or difficult words are highlighted and defined for young readers. "The Raccoon River Indian Agency" discusses the archeological exploration of the indian…

Presents a lesson in which students learn about the settlement of the colonial borderlands. Analyzes (1) the immigrant experience of the Canary Islanders in Texas and (2) their interactions with people on the colonial Texas frontier. Offers a handout and rubric. (CMK)

Explains that the marginal position of Chinese in Mississippi, neither white nor black, played a vital role in the development of their identity. Discusses the social, economic, and cultural influences that produced a Chinese American community in the south markedly different from the one in California. (MJP)

This paper presents an overview of the history of Japanese in Colorado. Japanese immigrants first came to Colorado between 1900 and 1910 as railroad laborers. Some became coal miners in southern Colorado; most others became farm laborers. Although the Japanese population during this period was small, communities developed in several locales. The…

In this article, the author details how she and another teacher developed a multicultural Wisconsin history curriculum for a fourth-grade classroom. Their focus in this article is a description of the main ideas students learned and the instructional strategies that supported their learning from the three-week unit on Wisconsin government. They…