Social+Studies

**Use this space to post lessons, activities, and units that include student-centered learning strategies. Please provide brief descriptions of the examples as well as highlight the effective teaching practices that they exemplify.** Women in World History - =Married Women’s Property Rights Changing Views and Challenges Primary Source Lessons=

Digital Storytelling in Political Science

A blog (sorry, Kelly) post about how Keith Dennison revised his political science research paper to make it more student centered.

About Japan This is a lesson on Japanese pop culture using collaboration and discussion skills. -Kelly Hulpa

PBS: Housing Crisis

This is a timely lesson on the housing crisis with relevance to Economics and perhaps U.S. history as a current event. -Aren Apffel

[] Probably the BEST database on African Studies for resources / lesson plans, etc.... -Sharon Sweeney

[|Electronic NJ] Plugging myself and some of our fellow faculty, but Electronic NJ has wonderful primary sources, activities, projects, and lessons. More "modules" will be added in the coming months and the location of the site will be moving, but definitely worth exploring. -Lindsay Warren

**Tom and Darrell Examples**
====**Acts of Moral Courage in To Kill a Mockingbird:** Assignment, Samples and Rubric.This shows a step-by-step learning progression for incorporating PBL into their Humanities II class. This highlights collaborative learning and reflection.====



These are plans for Holocaust studies. Looks really interesting. Denise [|holocaust]