This article deals with the selection process of social studies curriculum materials, introducing readers to the major ideas contained in the NCSS's Social Studies Curriculum Guidelines and SSEC's Curriculum Materials Analysis System. (SM)

The author introduces twenty-six analyses, describes the method of analysis, includes a selection policy for this issue, and lists ten analysts. Each project, analyzed by the combined criteria of the CMAS and the NCSS Guidelines, is examined for background information, product characteristics, rationale and objectives, content, methodology,…

Eleventh grade inquiry oriented history units which require students to deal with primary source materials are evaluated in this article. (SM)

The anthropology materials, designed for ninth and tenth grade students and focusing on understanding of human behavior through acquisition of scientific investigation, are assessed. (SM)

The elementary unit kits, interdisciplinary and self contained learning systems comprised of a variety of learning activities and media which approach a social studies topic through a method of inquiry, are examined. (SM)

Fifteen interdisciplinary social studies units intended for 10th grade students but applicable to eighth and ninth grade students, dealing with universal issues in the hope that students gain insight into the behavior of man, are analyzed. (SM)

Inquiry strategies stressed in the multi-disciplinary materials designed for junior and senior high students with below grade level reading abilities are examined in this article. (SM)

The three books comprising this project are analyzed, each containing studies on controversial issues in an attempt to offer understanding of the American political system to junior high and secondary level students. (SM)

The two programs examined concentrate on developing junior high school slow learners' affective behavior through a discussion strategy. The Americans helps students to understand contemporary society within the broad context of American historical development. Living in Urban America, a multidisciplinary program, examines various aspects of urban…

The interdisciplinary social studies materials for sequential use in grades nine through twelve and designed to help each student develop into an independent thinker and a responsible citizen are assessed. Most class activities are organized around directed discussion working toward the objectives of inquiry skills, knowledge, values, and…

Based on a well defined structure of economics, the materials analyzed, for grades four through eight, focus on economic concepts which are taught mainly through teacher-student discussions and student readings. (SM)

In the evaluated project the core of the elementary curriculum is centered around economics, although other social science disciplines are integrated into the program which emphasizes helping students to develop problem solving abilities and analytic thinking through their involvement in learning activities. (SM)

In this assessment two main concepts dealt with in the interdisciplinary course of history and political science are power and political structure. Strategies in the high school student materials are those associated with the method of inquiry into historical source documents that require interpretation and development of hypotheses. (Author/SM)

The core discipline of the evaluated fifth grade course which is applicable to secondary grades is anthropology; however, because man is the subject, the scope of the curriculum is interdisciplinary. The learning process is emphasized with methodology based on comparison and contrast. (SM)

It is the purpose of the assessed k-12 sequential project to help students develop skills, knowledge, and values. Although the project is structured toward development of the concepts of various social science disciplines, history and geography are the primary subject areas. (SM)