Lessons & Resources

The Exploitation of Enslaved Women During The 18th Century Colonial America A model historical research paper by an eighth grade student at Montclair Kimberley Academy in Montclair, NJ.

Cesar Chavez and the National Farm Workers Association Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 24, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2024

Teaching with Documents: Wallace’s Defense of Segregation Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 24, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2024

Erie Canal Learning Hub Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 24, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2024

New Jersey Women Who Belong in the Curriculum Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 24, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2024

Promoting Student Discussion Using Prompts and the Rule of THREE Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 24, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2024

United States Foreign Policy History and Resource Guide Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 24, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2024

Teaching “What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?” by Frederick Douglass: A Two-Part Student Led Lesson Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 24, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2024

“Just a Few Thousand”—the Moral Questions Facing New Teachers Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 24, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2024

Two Sides of the Same Coin: An Observance of the Strategies Utilized in the Women’s Suffrage Movement in 20th Century America Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 24, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2024

Death Transformed: How the Black Death Impacted the Dying in the 14th Century Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 24, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2024

The Social Cost of Deindustrialization: Postwar Trenton, New Jersey Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 24, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2024

New Jersey’s Slavery Past: Howe House in Montclair, NJ Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 24, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2024

History of America’s Immigration: The Background to Today’s Border and Asylum Crises Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 24, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2024

Teaching with Documents: The 1892 Lynching of an African American Man in New York State Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 23, No. 2, Summer-Fall 2023

The Usage of Film in Teaching History through the Lens of the Civil Rights Movement Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 23, No. 2, Summer-Fall 2023

British Exacerbation of the Great Hunger 1845-1852 Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 23, No. 2, Summer-Fall 2023

Lesson Based on the Movie Glory Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 23, No. 2, Summer-Fall 2023

The Revolt that Changed Everything: The Haitian Revolution’s Immediate Effect on the United States Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 23, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2023

Disciplinary Literacy, Trade Books, and Culturally Responsive Teaching in Middle Grades Social Studies Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 23, No. 2, Summer-Fall 2023

The Failures of the Recovery from the Great Recession Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 23, No. 2, Summer-Fall 2023

Bartolomé de Las Casas: Defender of the Indians Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 23, No. 2, Summer-Fall 2023

The Edible Primary Source: Food as a Medium to Teach History Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 23, No. 2, Summer-Fall 2023

Holocaust Museum & Center for Tolerance and Education Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 23, No. 2, Summer-Fall 2023

Chaim Goldberg: Sharing History Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 23, No. 2, Summer-Fall 2023.

Missing in Action: Africans in History Textbooks Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 23, No. 2, Summer-Fall 2023

Teaching New York History: Sources for Teachers Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 23, No. 2, Summer-Fall 2023

New York History: “A White Man Imprisoned 17 Years for Helping Enslaved People Escape to Freedom” Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 23, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2023

Pre-World War II Antisemitism in America Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 23, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2023

The Use of Social Framework as an Analysis of a Historical Event Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 23, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2023

The Schlieffen Plan in World War I Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 23, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2023

Digital History of Slavery and Runaways in New York: History Student Project Creates Digital History Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 23, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2023

The Forgotten Lessons: The Teaching of Northern Slavery Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 23, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2023

New Jersey History: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Discusses the “American Dream,” Drew University, Madison, New Jersey, February 5, 1965 Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 23, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2023

Local Connections: WPA Artists Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 23, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2023

Ukrainian Homodor Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 23, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2023

Thinking and Teaching the Implications of Federalist Paper #10 Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 23, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2023

New York History: Colored School No. 4 Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 23, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2023

The Hanoi Train Station: Perspectives and Empathy in Social Studies Education Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 23, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2023

Teaching Asian American History Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 22, No. 2, Summer-Fall 2022

New Jersey Local History: Stephen Smith House and Underground Railroad at Cape May Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 22, No. 2, Summer-Fall 2022

Slavery in New Jersey: Teaching Hard History Through Primary Sources

New York Survived the 1832 Cholera Epidemic Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 22, No. 2, Summer-Fall 2022.

Boosting Reading Skills through Social Studies at the Elementary Level Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 22, No. 2, Summer-Fall 2022

Soldiers of Peace in Wartime: A Lesson from World War I Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 22, No. 2, Summer-Fall 2022

Buried in the Brooklyn: Using Cemeteries to Teach Local History Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 22, No.1, Winter-Spring 2022

Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples Day? Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 22, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2022

Origin and Meaning of Critical Race Theory Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 22, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2022

Should Chief Daniel Nimham Be Honored or Erased? Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 22, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2022

Local History: Albany High School Students Weigh Philip Schuyler’s Legacy Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 22, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2022

Using Court Cases to Teach Social Studies and History Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 22, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2022

Using Literature to Teach about Race in America Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 22, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2022

Rights, Redistribution, and Recognition”:Newark and its Place in the Civil Rights Movement Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 22, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2022

A Different Pace of Change: Debunking the Myth of “The Roaring Twenties” Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 22, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2022

Orange Haze: Decade of Defoliation Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 22, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2022

Observations of an Honors History Course Post-Pandemic Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 22, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2022

Sentenced to Death by Silence: The United States Government’s Slow Response to the AIDS Epidemic Permitted by Decades of Homophobia Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 22, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2022

Same Bigotry, Different Name: Race Suicide, the Birth Dearth, and Women’s Rights Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 22, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2022

Midwifery and Abortion in the Modern Curriculum Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 22, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2022

Preserving our Democracy: The Now Inescapable Mandate for Teaching Media Literacy in Elementary Social Studies Education Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 21, No. 2, Summer-Fall 2021

Teaching with New Technology in a “New” Era Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 21, No. 2, Summer-Fall 2021

New Law? New Curriculum? What Do I Do? Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 21, No. 2, Sumer-Fall, 2021

Debate over the 15th Amendment Divides Abolitionists Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 21, No. 2, Summer-Fall, 2021

Learning and Teaching about Service Learning: A Model Project about Freedom Seekers Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 21, No. 2, Summer-Fall 2021

Poverty and Child Labor in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era New York City Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 21, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2021

Black Lives that Mattered Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 21, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2021

Teaching Controversial Issues: Teachers’ Freedom of Speech in the Classroom

Learning Through the Presidency of John F. Kennedy: How We Can Teach the Power of Television and Media Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 21, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2021

Lyddie the Mill Girl – An Interdisciplinary 7th Grade Unit Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 21, No. 1 Winter-Spring 2021

Historic New York: Hudson Valley History Lessons Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 21, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2021

Castle Garden: An Early Gateway to the United States Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 21, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2021

Enemies in Their Own Homes Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 21, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2021

Neither Here Nor There, So Where Shall I Go? Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 21, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2021

The American Flapper Through Media Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 21, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2021

The 1918 Influenza in San Francisco: A Case Study for Today Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 21, no. 1, Winter-Spring 2021

The Teachable Idols of the Sixties: Their March Towards Civil Equality Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 21, No.1, Winter-Spring 2021

The Power of Propaganda: Using Disney’s Wartime Films in the Classroom Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 21, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2021

Historic New York: Underground Railroad Stations Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 21, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2021

Constitutional Textualism, Undocumented Immigrants, and the Fourteenth Amendment Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 21, No. 1, Winter-Summer 2021

Black and White: War and Race in the United States Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 21, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2021

Censorship and the First Amendment: Should We Shield Citizens from Unpopular Ideas, or Is ‘Sunshine the Best Disinfectant’? by Richard F. Flaim & Harry Furman Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 21, No. 1 Winter-Spring 2021

Using John Lewis’ March Graphic Novel Trilogy in Middle School Teaching Social Studies, Vol. 17, No. 1, Winter-Fall 2017

Do Not Spit at Random: Public Health Lesson for Elementary School Teaching Social Studies, Vol. 20, No. 2, Summer-Fall 2020

Integrating Climate History into the Global History Curriculum Teaching Social Studies, Vol. 20, No. 2, Summer-Fall 2020

4th Grade NYS and Slavery Inquiry: How did New Yorkers challenge slavery? Teaching Social Studies, Vol.20, No. 2, Summer-Fall 2020

New York’s African Americans Demand Freedom Teaching Social Studies, Vol. 20, No. 2, Summer-Fall 2020

Imperialism Social Studies Curriculum Inquiry Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 20, No. 2, Summer-Fall 2020

The Beginnings of the Religion in America Class at Pascack Hills/Valley Regional District Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 20, No. 2, Summer-Fall 2020

The Truth about Holocaust and Stalinist Repression Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 20, No. 2, Summer-Fall 2020

Axis of Evil or the Great Satan? Untangling the U.S./Iranian Relationship Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 20, No. 2, Summer-Fall 2020

Geographical Context and Prior Knowledge Inference Activity – Companion Document to American Imperialism and Indigenous Nations by Janie Hubbard Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 20, No. 2, Summer-Fall 2020

“Us” and “Them:” Using the Inquiry Design Model to Explore the Nanking Massacre Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 20, No. 2, Summer-Fall 2020

The Identity Crisis of U.S. Democracy and its Imperialistic Annexation of the Philippines Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 20, No. 2, Summer-Fall 2020

Does Democracy Work? An Inquiry into American Democracy Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 20, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2020

Expanding Democracy / Jacksonian Democracy / White Men’s Democracy Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 20, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2020

Missing Persons in History Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 20, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2020

Broken Promises in the Middle East from the Institute for Curriculum Services Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 20, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2020

From Lesson to Assessment: What are the First Amendment Rights of Assembly and Petition? Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 20, No. 1 Winter-Spring 2020

Due Process on Campus Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 20, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2020

Why did some New Yorker’s show support for slavery? 4th Grade NYS and Slavery Inquiry Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 20, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2020

New York State’s Mohawk Code Talkers Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 20, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2020

Teaching Impeachment and the 2020 Election Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 20: No. 1, Winter-Spring 2020

Debate and Inquiry-Based Instruction on Presidential Impeachment Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 20: No. 1, Winter-Spring 2020

Evaluating the New Global History and Geography Regents  Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 19, No. 2, Summer-Fall 2019

Student Takeover at Cornell University (1969)  Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 19, No. 2, Summer-Fall 2019

“We Are All Bound Up Together” (May 1, 1866)   Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 19, No. 2, Summer-Fall 2019

4th Grade NYS and Slavery Inquiry  Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 19, No.2, Summer-Fall 2019

Global History Mini-Unit on the Dangers of Climate Change   Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 19, No. 2, Summer-Fall 2019

Historians Debate: Was the Electoral College Designed to Protect Slavery?   Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 19, No. 2, Summer-Fall 2019

Albany’s Underground Railroad Walking Tour   Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 19, No. 2, Summer-Fall 2019

Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework  Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 19, No. 2, Summer-Fall 2019

Teaching the Young Lords Party: The Civil Rights Movement in New York City   Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 19, No. 2, Summer-Fall 2019

The Battle of Gettysburg    Short story from a student in 4th grade 

Using Malala’s Story to Develop Student Agency Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 19, No. 2, Summer-Fall 2019

One-to-One Layered Curriculum: Differentiation in the 21st Century Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 19, No.2, Summer-Fall 2019

Teaching about Race and Racism with Springsteen Songs   Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 19, No.2, Summer-Fall 2019 

Developing a FAIR School Homework Policy
Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 19, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2019

Economic Law or Political Policy?   Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 19, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2019

Teaching the Movie “All Quiet on the Western Front” Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 19, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2019

Teaching about Slavery in the Fifth Grade
Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 19, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2019

Activism in New York
Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 19, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2019

Teaching about Immigration
Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 19, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2019

Revealing Hidden Figures in Social Studies: Using Trade Books to Teach Women’s Contributions throughout History
Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 19, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2019

Writing More Women into United States History
Teaching Social Studies: Vol. 19, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2019