Interesting and stimulating instruction in high school social studies may be achieved by using the community and its institutions as a laboratory for learning and by creating an on-going community resource inservice program. Effective ways to incorporate community resources in the curriculum include creating special sections on developing writing skills in high school students by using community topics as subject matter, developing field-based experience packages for teachers and students, and developing curriculum materials and visual aids for classroom use. Possible activities include collecting oral histories, community mapping, charting urban growth, measuring community social mobility, using community archives, and researching local history. Such activities would enable students to meet the objectives formulated by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) for social studies as they (1) evidence interest in their communities; (2) obtain information from other people, libraries, maps, and pictures; and (3) understand some of the services and institutions in their communities. (KC) Aspect of National Assessment (NAEP) dealt with in this document: Assessment Instruments (Objectives).