Social Studies Research and Practice: Volume 10 Issue 1

“Schools Need to Wake Up!” Student Participants’ Calls for Human Rights Education

Jill M. Gradwell, Misty Rodeheaver, Robert L. Dahlgren

From labor conditions to public health and environmental justice, globalization has created an increasingly complex web of issues surrounding human rights. Research in social…

Scrutinizing and Supplementing Children’s Trade Books about Child Labor

John H. Bickford III, Cynthia W. Rich

State and national initiatives place an increased emphasis on both students’ exposure to diverse texts and teachers’ integration of English/language arts and history/social…

Teaching Newcomers Inclusively: Social Studies in a New Gateway State

Jeremy Hilburn, Xue Lan Rong, Hillary Parkhouse, Alison Turner

We explored social studies teachers’ dispositions towards working with immigrant students in an Atlantic new gateway state. We surveyed 99 middle and high school social studies…

Primary Sources in the Social Studies Classroom: Historical Inquiry with Book Backdrops

Daniel A. Cowgill II

One of the main Common Core Requirements focuses on student use of authentic subject area skills. These skills are those used by professionals in the academic field of study. It…

New Curricular Approaches to Teaching About the Middle East and North Africa

Maria Hantzopoulos, Zeena Zakharia, Roozbeh Shirazi, Monisha Bajaj, Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher

This paper explores the possibilities of engaging in cross-disciplinary research to generate social studies curricula that disrupt singular historical constructions about the…

Using Evernote® as an Interactive Notebook with Pre-Service Social Studies Teachers

Stacey Kerr, Mardi Schmeichel, Sonia Janis

Teacher educators are expected to create experiences for pre-service teachers to prepare them for the world of teaching and the ever-changing contexts of schools and teaching. In…

NCSS Notable Trade Book Lesson Plan One Green Apple Written by Eve Bunting

Sarah Hartman

One Green Apple, by Eve Bunting, challenges students to compare and contrast their feelings about fitting in and peer pressure, against those of Farah’s, the book’s main…

Notable Trade Book The First Drawing Written and Illustrated by Caldecott Medalist Mordicai Gerstein

Minnie Eichelkraut, Cynthia Szymanski Sunal

As author and illustrator, Caldecott Medalist Mordicai Gerstein takes readers on a journey to the age of the woolly mammoth in The First Drawing. In this lesson, students explore…