Contains suggestions to improve the quality of secondary social studies students' writing. For example, teachers should stagger expository writing activities over an extended period. The intended audience of the writing should include the student's peers. (RM)

To illustrate how individual stories from "The Martian Chronicles" can be used to teach sociological concepts to secondary students, the story "Ylla," which can be used to teach about race-ethnic relations, is analyzed and discussed. Other issues of "Social Education" featuring science fiction and additional resources…

A model for the joint planning and integration of science and social studies is presented. Curriculum comparisons, topic selection, topic definition and integration, and operational strategies form the basis of the model. Suggestions for implementing the model and evaluation processes are also included. (JR)

Teachers and students of economics and literature can learn about economics by studying concepts and topics in great literature and drama. Themes in literature deal with economic forces. A table of these themes is included. (AM)

Outlines procedure for group activity centered around an historical event. The group must perform mathematical problems in reaching a solution to a feudal community's moral dilemma. Copies of handouts are included. (KC)

Learning activities are suggested to give secondary students an understanding of totalitarian concepts found in such literature as "1984" and of violations of international human rights. (RM)

Two new curriculum development projects, interdisciplinary in nature, are described in this article. Exploring Human Nature, the Educational Development Center project, is a social studies course for high school students which integrates biological science into its program. Conversely, the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study course, Human…

Secondary students participate in a library scavenger hunt to find answers to questions raised by the press release containing President John F. Kennedy's telegram to Nikita Kruschev congratulating the Soviets on the first successful manned space flight. Issues for classroom discussion are also presented. (RM)

The elementary unit kits, interdisciplinary and self contained learning systems comprised of a variety of learning activities and media which approach a social studies topic through a method of inquiry, are examined. (SM)

Fifteen interdisciplinary social studies units intended for 10th grade students but applicable to eighth and ninth grade students, dealing with universal issues in the hope that students gain insight into the behavior of man, are analyzed. (SM)

The interdisciplinary social studies materials for sequential use in grades nine through twelve and designed to help each student develop into an independent thinker and a responsible citizen are assessed. Most class activities are organized around directed discussion working toward the objectives of inquiry skills, knowledge, values, and…

In this assessment two main concepts dealt with in the interdisciplinary course of history and political science are power and political structure. Strategies in the high school student materials are those associated with the method of inquiry into historical source documents that require interpretation and development of hypotheses. (Author/SM)

This article evaluates law instruction materials that can be combined in an interdisciplinary way in the hope that secondary students will be thoroughtly familiar with the law and, therefore, resist injustice. By using an inquiry approach into case studies students delve into controversial social problems that exist in urban America. (SM)

Interdisciplinary social studies units for grades k-12 are analyzed. Inquiry is the dominant teaching strategy in the materials but emphasis is also on concept teaching.

Considers those key concepts in geography that contribute to the teaching of history. Outlines strategies that teachers can use to combine and complement the two subjects. Discusses specific examples of these strategies focusing on the Erie Canal and Bunker Hill. Includes maps and illustrations. (MJP)