This is a study of high school students' attitudes and interest toward five areas of social studies: economics, geography, government, history, and psychology/sociology. Two thousand ninety-two high school seniors in 18 high schools in northwestern Georgia completed a survey form and indicated the social studies areas they liked best and least.…

This research study examined the effect that a ninth grade introduction to the social studies course had upon student interest in the social studies. A group of 32 entering ninth grade students (20 boys and 12 girls) were chosen as the experimental group to take the course. Written in a series of units, the course was comprised of the disciplines…

The document offers numerous examples of using the media in teaching local government and explains how to create appropriate materials. Suggestions are to collect news from newspapers and to record news and forum discussions on local radio stations. Forms and pamphlets can be collected from offices of the court clerk, probate judge, tax…

Approximately 1820 high school seniors from 14 schools in Georgia were surveyed to determine their attitudes toward five areas of the social studies: economics, geography, government, history, and psychology/sociology. Results indicated that economics was selected as the least-liked subject area more often than any other social studies area. In…

This paper describes a computer-assisted instruction program which was used in a senior high school local government course. In the fall of 1978, a contract was worked out between four senior American government students who were also studying fifth year mathematics. In return for writing a computer program on local government, which would count…