Social Education articles from April 2003

Social Education archives from April 2003

Greatly exaggerated. (Letters).
April 1, 2003... When I received my copy of Social Education for November/December 2002, I was pleased to see that it celebrated twenty-five years of "Teaching with Documents." When I began to read it, I turned first to the article on "Teaching about Civics and...

Editor's notebook.
April 1, 2003... THE WAR WITH IRAQ, which started just as this issue of Social Education was going to press, is an event that will have significant long-term consequences for our country, its role in the world, and the international order. The main framework in...

War with Iraq. (In Focus).(how to help students cope with war news)
April 1, 2003... A SPECIAL SECTION COMPILED BY SOCIAL EDUCATION STAFF The war with Iraq began as this April issue of Social Education was going to press. In our schools, it is the social studies classroom that is most likely to be the forum for...

War Powers: a new chapter continuing debate. (Looking at the Law).
April 1, 2003... BECAUSE the Constitution gives Congress--and not the president--the power "to declare war," public debate arises every time the president leads the nation into war without bothering to seek such a declaration. That leads to a lot of...

War Powers Act resources.(Bibliography)
April 1, 2003... PRIMARY DOCUMENTS House Joint Resolution 114: Joint Resolution to authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against Iraq. Available at www.house.gov/becerra/IRAQ_resolution.pdf. Passed October 16, 2002, this resolution authorized the...

War Powers Act activities.
April 1, 2003... 1 Furnish students with copies of Articles I and II of the U.S. Constitution. Instruct them to highlight the sections that outline the stated powers and duties assigned to Congress and the president, respectively, in the areas of war, foreign...

Bringing the world into the classroom with online global newspapers. (Advancing Technology).
April 1, 2003... THE INTERNET, as a societal force, might prove to be surpassed in its significance for the learning process only by the invention of a written language.... Mastery of the Internet and its resources can greatly enhance the...

Where in the world is Lorena, Texas? Enhancing local history studies with technology. (Advancing Technology).
April 1, 2003... The study of communities and local history has been a common feature of elementary social studies since the advent of the expanding horizons curriculum in the 1920s. Unfortunately, only second and third grade students typically study this...

Promoting, social science inquiry, with database technology. (Advancing Technology).
April 1, 2003... When we begin our social studies methods classes each semester, we ask our students what they remember of elementary or middle school social studies. We have them stand up and take their places in a line symbolizing a continuum of...

The graphing calculator: helping students explore social studies topics. (Advancing Technology).
April 1, 2003... For the past several years, we have been working with technology in social studies classrooms. Our experiences have taught us several lessons. Most importantly, we have become convinced that technology must be integrated into the existing...

Using digital video to study history. (Advancing Technology).
April 1, 2003... THE MIDDLE SCHOOL YEARS are critical to the cognitive, social, and emotional development of students. Hence, many schools implement various strategies to deal with the complexities associated with this age group. Beyond placing strong emphasis...

Meeting the Imam: a social studies research project. (Advancing Technology).(Imam Shamshad A. Nasir invites all to mosque)
April 1, 2003... Imam Shamshad A. Nasir is a missionary of the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam at the U.S. national headquarters. This essay was first given as a speech at the "Day of Unity and Interfaith Prayer" on September 11, 2002, at the Baitur Rahman Mosque...

Kickstarting inquiry with WebQuests and Web Inquiry Projects. (Advancing Technology).
April 1, 2003... PICTURE A CLASSROOM in which students are grouped around computers discussing a series of World War II propaganda posters. In another part of the room, students are poring over a downloaded list of popular 1940s films and clumping them into...

Digital literacy for effective citizenship. (Advancing Technology).
April 1, 2003... Cybersafety, Digital Awareness, and Media Literacy Young people today consume huge amounts of information through various media outlets and simultaneously create and distribute their own messages via digital technologies. Because efforts to...

Latin America online: Internet resources and web-based lessons. (Advancing Technology).
April 1, 2003... The Internet offers a vast repository of resources for teaching about many topics. Unfortunately, teachers must often engage in a great deal of searching to locate quality online materials. A first step for making use of Internet resources is...

Teaching about war and peace with the Internet. (Surfing the Web).
April 1, 2003... Chagrined Columnists Note: In my most recent column, "Teaching about Civics and Citizenship with the Internet" (Social Education, November/December 2002), I erroneously wrote that Freeman Butts, a scholar and leader in the field of civics...

Landmines: clearing the way.
April 1, 2003... CD-ROM by Huntington Associates. New York, N.Y.: National Committee of American Foreign Policy, 2002 In1972, future National Security Adviser Anthony Lake noted that some readers of the Pentagon Papers--the government study about U.S....