If This Is Social Studies, Why Isn't It Boring?

Practical Teaching Ideas in Free Online Chapter

In If This Is Social Studies, Why Isn't It Boring? from Stenhouse Publishing (1994), twenty-three teachers explain their successful strategies for teaching the social studies disciplines in a whole language context. The book covers contemporary subjects (the Gulf War), traditional topics (students as historians), well-known projects (Scottish Storyline), social studies in the community, and multicultural matters.

The free online chapter was written by high school teacher Janet Allen. After listening every day to her English students complain about their required history courses, she came up with an idea. Building on the successful strategies students were already using in her English classes, she introduced her students to adult and young adult historical fiction to help make history come alive for them.

Find out more about the book, download the chapter, and start reading.