Discusses how reverence toward life should become a major organizing concept for social studies instruction. Provides 16 curricular examples that can increase student awareness of reverence and lack of reverence toward life. Contends our primary aim should be to help students investigate these situations and facilitate self-evaluation and action…

Legends can be incorporated into elementary social studies curricula to help students understand how people transmitted history and culture from one generation to another before they learned to read and write. Taga the Great is a legend which helps explain the 16-feet high latte stones on the Mariana Islands, Tinian and Rota. According to legend,…