Offers thoughts on criticisms directed against conservatives, the deline of Montreal's commercial activity, and the deaths of economist F. A. Hayek, author Roger Lemelin, and journalist Barbara Frum. Briefly examines the irony of teaching sex education while downplaying religious instruction. Explores the decline of Quebec's culture and…

Discusses teaching eighth-grade students about the Middle Ages at St. John's School in St. Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec. Explores a lesson in Montreal history offered to third- and fourth-grade students at the city's Hampstead School. Describes an environmental education unit for kindergarteners at Montreal's Edinburgh School. (DK)

Presents a crossword puzzle and a word find puzzle. Offers clues dealing with member nations in the British Commonwealth. Includes an answer key for the crossword puzzle. Suggests sources of information on the Commonwealth. (DK)

Suggests assigning students to construct timelines using continuous-fold computer paper. Explains various means of arranging the timelines. Recommends several different uses, including reading, mathematics, or spelling. Concludes that using continuous-fold paper can help students develop a sense of history, both as individuals and as part of a…

Argues for increased attention to current events in social studies instruction. Suggests using mass media sources to supplement contemporary affairs teaching. Recommends that teachers create learning centers and display areas; encourage students to maintain current affairs folders, scrapbooks, journals, and learning logs; give current affairs…

Suggests using primary sources in history and social studies instruction. Offers reasons for teaching with primary sources. Proposes activities for developing students' investigative skills. Includes lessons dealing with detecting source bias, differentiating sources, using conflicting sources, and evaluating sources. Presents varied…

Offers a game for helping first-grade students develop locational skills and geographic concepts. Calls upon students to (1) locate rooms within a school; (2) identify the rooms' purposes; (3) understand written instructions; (4) understand directional concepts; and (5) develop skills of cooperation. (DK)

Describes a two-day lesson plan for teaching U.S. history at the fifth-grade level. Focuses on the cause and effect relationship between historical events of 1763-76 and how they led to the American Revolution. Includes a flow chart to be used as a test question and a basis for class discussion. (DK)

Describes a six-week economics project for high school students. Suggests teaching consumer economics by having students pretend they are broke and out on their own. Discusses activities, materials, and student essays demonstrating the use and understanding of basic consumer terminology, credit, insurance, budgeting, and housing. (DK)

Describes a lesson plan that explains the role of compromise as a method of resolving conflicts for use in a sixth-grade world cultures class. Includes activities, assessment, reteaching activities, and an extension project involving student skits. (DK)

Provides a nine-item list of teacher developed materials relating to the social studies curriculum that may be found in the ERIC database. Includes materials on teaching methods, student activities, and museum resources. Explains how to locate and obtain materials from the ERIC system. (DK)

Addresses the importance of maps for instruction in both history and geography. Suggests that maps have gotten recent attention because of the rapid political changes occurring in Europe and the quincentenary of Columbus' voyage. Discusses different map projections and the importance of media and satellite display of real pictures of the world.…

Discusses the value of children's trade books to introduce social studies concepts and themes. Suggests special benefit to non-English-speaking four year olds. Argues that the approach provides children with a common bond and language, stimulus for intellectual and social interaction, and comprehensive connection for all parts of the curriculum.…

Argues that the learning module, or learning activity packet (LAP), is effective in changing preconceived attitudes of students and administrators toward history instruction. Suggests that learning modules should be looked at once again because of the mainstreaming of at-risk students. Includes a sample packet on reform movements. (DK)

Addresses the importance of nurturing culturally literate individuals as a goal of the social studies curriculum. Suggests integrating studies of the global community through a thematic approach using concepts, knowledge, and skills. Provides examples of elements that will enhance multicultural knowledge, develop an ethical sense of stewardship,…