12 ways to sharpen your students' minds!

As students grapple with the societal issues around them, they look for ways to express themselves. In your classroom, the best way is Dialogue, Discussion, and Debate: Social Studies.

This groundbreaking volume helps your students (and you) analyze and talk about 12 of the most pertinent cultural issues that students care about, hear about, and want to discuss:

• Global nuclear power 
• Separation of church and state 
• Immigration 
• National health care 
• Preventing genocide 
• Spreading democracy 
• Equal education for all 
• Eliminating teenage pregnancies through abstinence 
• Sharing music files 
• Free trade 
• Free speech 
• Gun control

Each topic within the book includes:

• A brief overview 
• Investigative questions
• Classroom preparation and instructional steps
• Lists of possible student preconceptions 
• Assessment criteria 
• National Council for the Social Studies Standards 
• Web resources for research

Each topic incorporates 15 minutes of prep time, plus homework, followed by two 45-minute class periods.