Outlined are three instructional models that were developed in a pre-service social studies course for junior year education majors. These interrelated models are structured as heuristic paradigms so that different types of content can be included within relevant areas. Specific attitudes, concepts, and skills are related to appropriate content from the social sciences --economics, geography, history, political science, sociology. The attitude-content model is concerned with five attitude areas: social responsibility, independent thinking, democratic living, empathy, and group cooperation. The concept-content model considered both the emotional and intellectual levels of concept comprehension. Accordingly, the skill-content model included affective and cognitive objectives. (SBE)