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Article: Teaching Elementary and Secondary History Using the Internet.
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- Social Education
- Article date:
- September 1, 2001
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ALTHOUGH the scope and sequence of the social studies curriculum throughout the United States has changed somewhat in the past decade, most students today are taking social studies courses very similar to those their parents took a generation ago. Yes, some traditional courses such as geography and economics have larger enrollments than they did ten to fifteen years ago. And while newer courses such as future studies and global studies have emerged, much of their enrollment has come from elective subjects such as sociology and psychology. The four-hundred pound gorilla in the K-12 social studies curriculum, however, remains history. About 75 or 80 percent of all students ...