Examines board games, card games, codes, puzzles, and mazes developed by elementary school social studies classroom teachers to help students become more interested in and learn more about social studies. Claims teacher-made games have advantages over commercial games because they are based on the specific material emphasized in the local schools…

Presented is a selection from the last chapter of the Project on Social History (POSH) dealing with the changing family. Students are asked to speculate about the direction in which families appear to be moving and to discuss what they would like the families they form to be like. (RM)

Describes a learning activity intended to introduce students in fourth-grade social studies classes to basic business and consumer economics practices. The activity involves forming groups of business partners, deciding on a type of business to set up, deciding how to obtain land and set up a store, creating a money system, advertising, arranging…