Social Studies Research and Practice: Volume 1 Issue 1

Differences in Gender and Civic Education in Ukraine

Alden Craddock

Evaluating the effectiveness of an internationally-developed civic education curriculum, this study randomly sampled 1,015 students to assess student learning about democracy in…

Narrating Democratic Education

Ellen Durrigan Santora

This action research uses grounded theory and constant comparative analysis of electronic portfolios to explore how prospective secondary social studies teachers connect theories…

Social Studies Teachers’ Views on Committed Impartiality and Discussion

Jonathan Miller-Lane, Elissa Denton, Andrew May

Nearly twenty years ago, Kelly (1986) forcefully argued that teachers had a responsibility to disclose their positions on controversial issues during discussion. Yet, while…

Learning to Question in Kindergarten

Lynn Kelley

Even though young children ask many questions, the request for a question usually receives a story in response. The purpose of this action research was to determine if the…

Let’s Collaborate and Infuse Citizenship Education: Kids Voting in Primary Classrooms

Susan Catapano, Kim H. Song

Teachers comment that there is no time in the day to cover social studies as they struggle to implement new programs designed to increase the reading levels of the students in…

Huns, Nuns, & Guns: A WebQuest

Chad Michael Dorn, Carlos Espinosa

The cost of war is extremely high. Human, monetary, and physical resources are all used in abundance during war. World War I was no exception. This war of attrition forced…

Revolution: In the Hearts and Minds of People

Amy Lynn Roedding

This is a lesson set, or mini-unit, for students in grades 7 – 9 focused on the concept of revolutions. It follows a learning cycle format. This lesson set takes approximately…

Developing Social Studies WebQuests with Teacher Candidates

Mary E. Haas, Jessica Channell, Michael T. Linder, Holly Vandevander, Angela VanSickle

WebQuests are discussed in terms of how pre-service teachers have worked to construct useful and appropriate Internet activities for students. A set of WebQuests that meet high…

Working with Museums and Parks for Teacher Education

Susan F. Waite, Judy A. Leavell

This article explores the use of local and regional museums and parks as possible sites for pre-service teacher education. The authors describe collaborative projects involving an…

Hierarchical Models and Interdisciplinary Studies: Construct, Compose, and Communicate

Tammy Crawford Cook, Juan Walker, Elizabeth K. Wilson

With more students and less time, teachers from different subject areas are encouraged to work collaboratively with each other. Implementing the hierarchical design model at the…

Ready to Teach Feature

Paulette Patterson Dilworth

Provoking Introspections about Freedom and Justice

Lois McFadyen Christensen

Too often, aesthetic education is neglected in the school curriculum. When school system budget monies are short, the arts seemingly are shortchanged. Nevertheless, aesthetic…

Standards, Firewalls, and General Classroom Mayhem: Implementing Student-Centered Technology Projects in the Elementary Classroom

Mark Hofer, Kathleen Owings Swan

If integrating technology means nothing more than enhancing the traditional delivery system of social studies content, where laptops replace notebooks, where PowerPoint slides…