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Laney, James D. – Social Studies, 2007
Because art is a reflection of cultural heritage, a natural affinity exists between art and social studies. In Jacob Lawrence's "The Migration Series," art serves as narrative history, with visual images telling the story of the Great Migration, a movement of African American people from the South to the North around World War I. Social studies…
Descriptors: Migration, Cultural Background, War, Social Studies
Pahl, Ronald H. – Social Studies, 2007
The author presents five classroom activities that involve students in the settlement at Jamestown. Activity 1 simulates the problems encountered on the "Godspeed," a fifty-two-foot foot boat with fifty-two passengers traveling across the Atlantic in 1607 for three slow months. In Activity 2, students plot their route, ocean currents,…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Class Activities, American Indians, Females
Christensen, Lois McFadyen; Kirkland, Lynn Doty; Noblitt, Laurie Drennen – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2007
In this article, the authors describe a lesson that helps elementary students build a sense of citizenship and moral consciousness about justice. Children participated in the struggle for civil and voting rights in Selma and in other places in the South during the 1960s. Initially, it was children's literature that sparked these third grade…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Social Change, Childrens Literature, Social Studies
America's Changing Attitudes toward Homosexuality, Civil Unions, and Same-Gender Marriage: 1977-2004
Avery, Alison; Chase, Justin; Johansson, Linda; Litvak, Samantha; Montero, Darrel; Wydra, Michael – Social Work, 2007
On May 17, 2004, Massachusetts became the first state to legalize same-gender marriage. From California to Missouri, nearly all states now face legislative challenges to the once firmly entrenched notion that marriage can only exist between a man and a woman. Public opinion polls conducted from 1977 to 2004 found that Americans' attitudes toward…
Descriptors: Marriage, Social Work, Public Opinion, Homosexuality
Mitchell, William I. – 1995
This study describes the patriotic public rituals, the propaganda materials, and the censorship activities that were part of the school experience in Missouri during World War I. It also examines the apparent responses of two rural Benton County communities to those rituals, materials and activities. Benton County is a rural area of central…
Descriptors: Censorship, Citizenship Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Local History
Crabtree, Charlotte; Nash, Gary B. – 1994
Developed through a broad-based national consensus building process, the national history standards project has involved working toward agreement both on the larger purposes of history in the school curriculum and on the more specific history understandings and thinking processes all students should have equal opportunity to acquire over 12 years…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Decision Making, Elementary Education, Historical Interpretation
Donley, Susan K. – 1988
This curriculum guide is designed to prepare teachers to introduce basic ethnic and multicultural concepts into the classroom, and to help students, through the presented readings and activities, to understand and appreciate the role ethnicity plays in family, local, national, and global life. Four units invite students to apply creative,…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Elementary Education, Ethnic Groups, Ethnicity
Donley, Susan K. – 1988
This curriculum guide is designed to prepare teachers to introduce basic ethnic and multicultural concepts into the classroom, and to help students, through the presented readings and activities, to understand and appreciate the role ethnicity plays in family, local, national, and global life. Four units invite students to apply creative,…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Ethnic Groups, Ethnicity, Learning Activities
Holmes, Edward, Jr. – 1984
Designed to aid K-12 teachers in preparing a unit on the West, this paper summarizes the role of black cowboys in the Arizona territory and provides strategies and resources on teaching the subject. Section 1, an introduction, contains a list of unit objectives and discussion of instructional methods and techniques. Sections 2 through 8 contain…
Descriptors: Black Achievement, Black History, Black Studies, Curriculum Development
New York Document Conservation Advisory Council, Albany. – 1988
This report, the culmination of the 3-year "New York Document Conservation Administration Training and Planning Project," represents a distillation of the best thinking about preservation issues in New York after an exhaustive process of consultation and review. Its thesis is that preservation of New York State's historical records, rare…
Descriptors: Community Cooperation, Federal Aid, Guidelines, Preservation
Wead, Margaret – 1981
Histories of Blacks, Czechs, Germans, Jews, Mexicans, and Poles are provided in this resource guide. The histories are intended as a major background resource to help instructional staff members of the 45 school systems in Education Service Center, Region II, Corpus Christi, Texas, integrate ethnic heritage studies materials into classroom…
Descriptors: Black History, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnic Studies, History
Dixon, Ford – 1979
This guide will help teachers of grades 6-12 integrate economics concepts into history courses. The developers believe that the language and theories of economics are more understandable, germane, and pertinent in the context of a history curriculum. The seven basic economic concepts taught are: the law of demand, the law of supply, private…
Descriptors: Concept Teaching, Economics Education, European History, History Instruction
Cooper, Karen Coody – New England Social Studies Bulletin, 1986
Discussed are the American Indians who settled in the state of Connecticut long before the Europeans discovered North America. Also provided is a listing of resources dealing with Native Americans of the Northeast for use by secondary and college U.S. history or state history teachers. (RM)
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Studies, American Indians, American Studies

West, Leo R., Ed. – Social Studies Journal, 2003
This theme issue of the "Social Studies Journal" focuses on the worldwide conflict known in the United States as the French and Indian War (1754-1763). The volume is dedicated to examining the conflict in Pennsylvania. Western Pennsylvania became a battle-scarred landscape as the British and French, with their Native American allies,…
Descriptors: American Indians, Elementary Education, Geography, Higher Education
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn. Office of Multicultural Education. – 1994
This curriculum resource guide allows students to interpret key historical events and trends from the perspectives of a variety of cultural, linguistic, and ethnic groups. The 35 learning activities represent suggested approaches for teaching Units 7 and 8 of the New York State Grades 7 and 8 syllabus. Each unit is comprehensive, divided into…
Descriptors: Family History, Grade 8, Immigration, Instructional Materials