Intended for geography teachers and school library media specialists, this book is a resource for providing classroom lessons and activities in critical thinking for geography students in grades 7-12. The book is filled with over 75 primary source Internet sites covering such topics as Places and Regions, Physical Systems, Human Systems,…

Views and new emphases in black history, the problem of source materials, and a review of the periodical literature are presented. (KM)

The objectives of this learning activity, which compares students' estimates for selected death rates with government census figures, are to orient college students to sociology's methods and content and to increase their comprehension of their first reading assignment on Durkheim's study of suicide. (Author/RM)

Mapwork, a film, a debate, a machine-gun demonstration, and a box of primary source materials can be used in a World War II unit for 12th graders to supplement conventional analyses of the Dieppe Raid. (RM)

Contains a poster appealing to immigrants in the 1920s to attend classes at one of four Americanization schools to learn English. Teaching strategies to help teachers use the poster in secondary U.S. history classes are included. The poster is a primary source material from the National Archives. (RM)

Analyses of Polish workers' diaries, oral histories and other primary sources illustrate problems of obtaining objective information. The author proposes a new system for reaching valid historical conclusions when using these kinds of materials. (AM)

Presents activity, with reproducible reading, for high school students which focuses on perpetual differences among cultures. Students translate into modern English a 16th century document about life in Virginia and compare their translations. (KC)

Shows that several sources are important for an accurate news story. Offers guidelines for getting student journalists to select several news sources and obtain information from them. (RL)

Discusses the Gawdy Papers, a mostly unpublished collection of family papers in the British Library consisting of over 5000 documents that cover a large period in the history of modern business writing (1509-c. 1750). Notes that they are extremely helpful in formulating tentative theories about the history of business writing. (SG)

Reports on a qualitative research study of the information-seeking behavior of historians. Investigates how they locate primary sources, carry out their research, and use archival materials; and identifies four different types of information-seeking activities, including orienting oneself to materials, seeking know materials, building contextual…

Examines choices historians make concerning rhetorical theory. Considers their decisions about inclusion of rhetorical theories in their historical treatments, organization of those theories into categories or sequences, and contextualization of theories in relation to other theories or applications. Notes how four essays in this issue are related…

Discusses the use of photography as a teaching tool in social studies classes. Suggests that photographs can be used to teach not only history but also ethnic and religious customs and intellectual atmosphere. Urges teachers to stress that the image captured on film limits as well as illuminates its subject. (DK)

Discusses the use of primary resources in the teaching of middle school social studies. Describes a lesson in which students were given a copy of the Declaration of Independence, written in everyday language, and were asked to discuss and evaluate it. Suggests another activity based on Thomas Jefferson's writings. (SG)

Discusses historical examples of how fieldnotes of explorers are altered for publication, particularly in case of Samuel Hearne's "A Journal from Prince of Wale's Fort in Hudson Bay to the Northern Ocean 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772." Suggests readers view explorers' narratives as reflections of tastes and ideologies of their age and books as…

Discusses the value of journals for understanding a historical period. Suggests that social studies students be encouraged to keep journals to understand better the difference between something written at the time and a later description of the same event. Lists examples of journals from historical periods that may interest students in journal…