In this lesson, students explore how different social factors affect civic participation and equality across the country and in their own school community.
Labor Day is an excellent time to dig into social studies themes civic ideas, power authority and governance, and production/distribution of goods are all relevant. What will you do?
This website offers information about underserved populations, specifically children. It provides research data and publications. It also has links to recent and compelling news, media, and legislative information affecting children in our country.
This is just a general resource on best practice in education. It applies, certainly, to Social Studies instruction but is a great overall resource to have for knowing what is most likely to work!
Democracy is contingent on having an educated populace in the 20th and 21st centuries. Therefore, knowing how to effectively teach is incumbent on those of us trying to support this part of our society.