Presents an activities package designed for teachers to use in teaching elementary or secondary students about political processes in an election year. Includes topics such as voting procedures, political parties, political campaigns, issues, and rating the candidates. (CK)

Describes a teaching activity which encourages junior high and high school students to analyze a city geographically and historically by using materials available from a Chamber of Commerce or Bureau of Tourism. (CK)

Describes a classroom game designed to help junior high students understand the historic and social relationships associated with clan names in the Manding-speaking areas of West Africa. (CK)

Describes a variety of learning activities for teaching elementary and junior high students about air, water, and energy conservation techniques. Suggests community resources, social studies objectives, language skills, and 20 activities. (CK)

Discusses and explains experimental validity, including both internal and external validity, in terms that a classroom teacher can understand and use in his own research. (CK)

Discusses five generalizations based on political education correlational research and assesses their implications for teachers of citizenship education. Conclusions include: l) knowledge can be influenced more directly than attitudes, 2) the quality of civics instruction is critical in shaping attitudes, and 3) a more realistic picture of…

Explores a variety of ways that research into the learning of values can influence values education. Five generalizations and implications are presented. Conclusions show that more is known about what is ineffective in values education than what is effective. (CK)

Presents five generalizations from social science research relating to the teaching of social studies and the cognitive domain as well as their possible implications for teachers. Concludes that more research is needed and that social studies teachers must pose questions for researchers to answer. (CK)

Describes four suggested junior high or senior high school teaching activities to use in conjunction with a letter written to Giuseppe Garibaldi during the Civil War. Activities encourage skills such as information gathering, reading and oral skills, creative expression, and critical thinking. (CK)

Describes a rotation teaching program in the Anoka-Hennepin School District No. 11 in Coon Rapids, Michigan. Focuses on the roles of the social studies consultants and teachers in the program, educational objectives, and educational practices. (CK)

Contends that organizations such as the ACLU ignore basic structural features of the U.S. public schools and make incorrect assumptions about the nature of values and religion in arguing against recent censorship efforts, thereby promoting secular humanism at the expense of other religious beliefs and strengthening the censorship role of the…

Reviews First Amendment case law and briefly presents the 1985 Supreme Court case findings for Bender vs. Williamsport Area School District which dealt with whether a bible study group could use school property during an organized, school-sponsored activity period. Suggests role playing, group work and discussion activities for classroom use. (JDH)

Provides a brief historical and conceptual background for understanding the challenges which the "new" immigration places on traditional approaches to social/political/civic education. Includes summaries of other articles on immigration in this issue. (JDH)

Examines monolithic integration, ethnocentric pluralism, and pluralistic integration as three alternative conceptions of how the United States might best accommodate immigrants and how these theories have shaped treatment of immigration in the social studies curriculum. Pluralistic integration is presented as the approach which best matches…

Provides a review of historical trends and recent experiences which shape the issues that dominate current immigration policy debates. Gives special attention to the employment status of illegal aliens and the impact this labor force may have on future legislation. (JDH)