Social Studies Research and Practice: Volume 12 Issue 1

Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation: written by Duncan Tonatiuh

Elizabeth Sturm

The purpose of this paper is to use Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation, by Duncan Tonatiuh, along with other materials on school…

Can We Help?: Kids Volunteering to Help Their Communities

Holly Hilboldt Swain, Meagan Roberts Chapman

The purpose of this paper is to allow students to explore the role of volunteerism in their communities as they become community helpers through a service learning project to…

Red: NCSS notable trade book lesson plan

Cynthia Sunal, Oluseyi Matthew Odebiyi

This early grades lesson for ages 4-7 explores the concept of bullying, focusing on its occurrence among students in day-to-day school experiences. The purpose of this paper is to…

“Women know how to get things done”: narrative of an intersectional movement

Amanda Elizabeth Vickery

The purpose of this paper is to explore how African-American women, both individually and collectively, were subjected to both racism and sexism when participating within civil…

The three R’s: reading, (W)Riting, and researching through multi-genre project

Kathryn Roberts, Kristy Brugar

The purpose of this paper is to examine how the authors, two teacher educators, planned for and guided 23 students (teacher candidates) through a multi-genre historical inquiry…

Doing democracy through simulation, deliberation, and inquiry with elementary students

Katherina Ann Payne, James V. Hoffman, Samuel DeJulio

Democracy is learned through doing, not telling. The purpose of this paper is to report the findings from an action research project where a group of fourth-grade students…

Social justice through citizenship education: a collective responsibility

Sara Winstead Fry, Jason O’Brien

Existing research suggests that preservice elementary teachers tend to believe “good” citizens are people who follow laws and help others rather than people who embrace a more…

Classroom convention: teaching comparative constitutional design through simulation

Sarah Fisher, Florian Justwan

The purpose of this paper is to detail a simulation exploring the academic and real-world debates surrounding constitutional design.

Scaffolded lesson study: Promoting professional teaching knowledge for problem-based historical inquiry

John W. Saye, Jada Kohlmeier, James B. Howell, Theresa M. McCormick, Robert C. Jones, Thomas A. Brush

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of scaffolded lesson study on the content knowledge, conceptions of curriculum, and classroom practice of 22 elementary and…