WebQuests are discussed in terms of how pre-service teachers have worked to construct useful and appropriate Internet activities for students. A set of WebQuests that meet high standards for use with students is presented.

This article explores the use of local and regional museums and parks as possible sites for pre-service teacher education. The authors describe collaborative projects involving an African-American history museum and a national historical park.

With more students and less time, teachers from different subject areas are encouraged to work collaboratively with each other. Implementing the hierarchical design model at the early stages of students’ learning will increase their chances of learning to think analytically in all of their...

Too often, aesthetic education is neglected in the school curriculum. When school system budget monies are short, the arts seemingly are shortchanged. Nevertheless, aesthetic education is a necessary, intentional, and simultaneous endeavor within early childhood, elementary, secondary, and...

If integrating technology means nothing more than enhancing the traditional delivery system of social studies content, where laptops replace notebooks, where PowerPoint slides replace handwritten overheads, where e-textbooks replace hard copy textbooks, then we will be no closer to the NCSS...

There are growing concerns among social studies professionals that social studies instruction is disappearing from elementary schools. These concerns have become more pressing as educational policies emphasize core curricula of reading, writing, mathematics, and science. Questions arise as to...

This teleobservation pilot study focuses on an innovative approach for the preparation of elementary social studies preservice teacher candidates through the use of interactive videoconferencing to provide observations of elementary classrooms. Preservice teacher candidates observed social...

This paper reports on a three-year study that examined the effect of 9/11 on preservice teachers’ perspectives and dispositions toward global concerns and global perspective pedagogy. Participants responded to a “before” and “after” survey in which they indicated the level of their...

This qualitative research explores factors that influence social studies teachers’ issue-selection for classroom discussion. Four high school teachers—three from an urban setting and one from a suburban high school—participated in the study. Data were gathered over three months via...