Activities to help the classroom teacher involve students in the process of raising, defining, investigating, and resolving problems and questions are suggested. Selected references are included. (Author/RM)

The author shows how teachers can relate a period in American history which has been filled with conflicts over values and actions of a political, economic, or social nature to contemporary issues. The period chosen to illustrate this method is the ante bellum era between Jackson's incumbency and the Civil War. (SM)

World Order Studies is focused on limiting and then eliminating international warfare, raising the standards of economic welfare all over the globe, restoring ecological balance, promoting and increasing the amount of democratic participation in the formation of public policy, and expanding the degree of social justice that exists within various…

Issues relevant to teaching social studies are examined from a historical perspective. A curriculum plan, based on key generalizations from the social sciences, geography, and history is described. Emphasis is placed on development of intellectual skills, active involvement of the child through direct experiences, and the teaching of values. (SM)

Three general areas of disagreement in a contract dispute form the setting of a role-playing activity which provides a social studies model in labor history. (KM)

Diffusion, as it relates to social studies reform, involves disseminating information about change in such a way as to improve and expand the use in schools of innovations in social education. (Author)

The author introduces twenty-six analyses, describes the method of analysis, includes a selection policy for this issue, and lists ten analysts. Each project, analyzed by the combined criteria of the CMAS and the NCSS Guidelines, is examined for background information, product characteristics, rationale and objectives, content, methodology,…

Examples and reasons for using case studies in the classroom illustrate the effectiveness of this technique. (JB)

Through careful selection of secondary source materials students are led to see how an historian uses facts to develop an interpretation. (JB)

Case studies are of value not only in the building and testing of knowledge, but in the practice they provide for the practical applications of knowledge to specific situations. (Author)

Author stresses the need and responsibility for social studies curriculum to establish an ecological awareness in students. (GB)