Presents a planning strategy which a busy social studies teacher may use to create rich resource units that go beyond the single textbook. (SJL)

This volume contains 36 lessons designed to be used in secondary social studies classes to introduce the science/technology/society (STS) themes and issues. While the first 11 lessons focus on general STS themes, the other 25 lessons cover specific STS issues that fall under such categories as population growth, water resources, world hunger, food…

Law 20, in the Alberta (Canada) educational system, is an introductory course with three core modules: (1) "Nature of Law and Civil Law System," (2) "Contract Law," and (3) "Family Law." Law 30 consists of (1) "Basic Rights and Responsibilities," (2) "Labour Law," and (3) "Property Law."…

Ways in which mathematics and global education can be combined are described. Following a discussion of the need for having a citizenry capable of analyzing global issues, methods of infusing global education into the mathematics curriculum and math into the social studies curriculum are offered. Half of the document consists of eight sample…

Three valuable approaches to utilize in improving the social studies curriculum may be to develop resource units, teaching units, and lesson plans. Resource units contain a collection of more objectives, learning activities, evaluation techniques, and bibliographical entries than can possibly be used by a given teacher for a particular classroom…

This high school unit of study on India's Mahatma Gandhi is designed to be used in courses of contemporary problems, government, and 20th century history. The unit contains a listing of the course objectives, needed resource materials, teaching strategies, and evaluation procedures. The course is taught over a 9-day period, and brief lesson plans…

This document, which primarily contains statistical tables of data, is designed to help teach secondary school students how to compare the power levels of 186 countries. The three indicators or measures of economic strength include a country's total population, total area, and per capita income, and they are used to determine power levels. A…

This document contains a collection of eight selected secondary level units of study about Japan. Individual units were planned and written by teachers who participated in the first Southwest Program for Teaching about Japan (SPTAJ) study tour to that country during 1987. Unit topics include: (1) "An Introduction To Japanese Medicine"…

This updated New York social studies curriculum guide for third grade has 10 key concepts that include change, citizenship, culture, empathy, environment, identity, interdependence, nation-state, scarcity, and technology. These concepts are taught in 23 lessons through social, political, economic, geographic, and historic perspectives. Each lesson…

This kit, designed for high school classes, considers advertising from both consumers' and manufacturers' perspectives. The role of advertising in relation to free enterprise principles is discussed in chapter 1, while chapter 2 provides a history of U.S. advertising processes and development. Chapter 3 describes advertising's role in bringing a…

This semester unit on change was designed for use in a pull-out program (meeting approximately 90 minutes per week) for gifted students in grades 1 through 3. The unit focuses on how change affects people's daily lives and impacts on the family, community, culture, government, and world. The basic goals of the unit are for the students to…

This document outlines the rationale of the grade 2 social studies curriculum of the Lebanon School District, Lebanon, New Hampshire. The content sequence is given. The children are asked to compare their families with a family of the Hopi Indian tribe and to learn the geography of the area where the Hopi families live. Skills to be gained are…

This document outlines the rationale of the grade 3 social studies curriculum of the Lebanon School District, Lebanon, New Hampshire. A suggested content sequence is given. The focus is on a larger social group, the village, or settlement. The farming villages selected as case studies include the Algonkin Indians of New England during the 17th…

This teaching outline for studying the significance of the Middle East to religious history and world history provides lesson suggestions for the study of geography, political science, philosophy, religion, anthropology, economics, archaeology, and history. Twenty-seven learning objectives focus on the students' acquisition of critical thinking,…

Developed for senior high school social studies classes, this Alberta (Canada) curriculum guide provides: (1) a social studies program rationale and philosophy; (2) social studies education's goals and objectives; (3) a general statement of the content and time allotment of required and elective social studies courses; and (4) evaluation…