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| Orientation to Social Studies Education | |
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| Social Studies Education: What and Why? | |
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| Goals for the Social Studies: Social Understanding and Civic Efficacy. Curriculum, Scope and Sequence. Trends | |
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| Knowing the Children We Teach | |
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| Guidelines and Teaching Examples. Understanding Changing Demographics | |
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| Social Studies Curriculum | |
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| Citizenship Education and Democratic Values | |
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| Why Citizenship Education? Citizenship Education: Six Dimensions | |
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| History, Geography, and the Social Sciences | |
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| Teaching History. Teaching Geography. Teaching Political Science. Teaching Economics. Teaching Anthropology. Teaching Sociology | |
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| Powerful Social Studies Tools: Time Lines, Maps, Globes, and Graphics | |
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| Developing a Sense of Time and Chronology. Map and Globe Skills Essential to the Social Studies Curriculum. Teaching about the Globe. Teaching about Maps. Teaching Graphs and Charts | |
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| Current Events and Public Issues | |
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| Building a Current Events Program. Four Strategies for Teaching Current Events. Teaching Enduring Public Issues | |
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| Planning And Teaching Social Studies | |
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| Planning Units, Lessons, and Activities | |
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| Planning the Unit. Teaching the Unit. Lesson Planning. Five Ways to Enrich Any Unit. | |
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| Three Great Teaching Strategies | |
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| Teaching Concepts. Teaching with Inquiry. Teaching Social Studies Skills. Asking Good Questions | |
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| Resources | |
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| The School Library. Textbooks. Community Resources. Computer Resources. Newspapers. Map and Globe Collections. Multiple Resources: Grappling with Competing Viewpoints. Curriculum Guides | |
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| Assessing Student Learning | |
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| Assessment Is Natural. Purposes of Assessment. Principles of Assessment. Methods of Assessment | |
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| Cooperative Learning in Social Studies | |
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| Creating a Positive Climate for Human Relations. Getting Started with Cooperative Groups. Managing Cooperative Groupwork. Identifying and Teaching Groupwork Skills. Teaching and Using Discussion Techniques | |
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| The Literacy-Social Studies Connection | |
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| Literacy & Content-Area Learning. Teaching Skills Essential to Social Studies Learning. Using Textbooks as Study Aids. Locating and Using Reference Materials. Building Social Studies Vocabulary. Improving Reading Comprehension: Making Sense. Using Children's Trade Books for Multiple Perspectives | |
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| Social Studies as the Integrating Core | |
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| Making Sense of Curricular Integration. Two Approaches: Infusion and Fusion. Infusion Example: Composing Cooperative Biographies. A Fusion Example: Understanding Living Things | |