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Lesson Presentation For The Law Code Of Hammurabi, Gabriela A. Azcarate

Student Created

Students will learn how to read, contextualize, interpret, and evaluate historical documents to interpret human behavior and culture and to make connections between past and present.

In this lesson, students will use Hammurabi’s Code to analyze and examine the religious, economic, political, and social facets of life in Mesopotamian society.

Carolina African Runner Peanuts: Connecting African And Alabamian Agricultural History, Abby West, Gary Padgett, Matthew D. Campbell

The Councilor: A National Journal of the Social Studies

Social Studies has the potential to impact STEAM education in unrealized ways. It can have this impact by being meaningful, integrative, value-based, challenging, and active. This article examines teaching about Carolina African Runner peanuts and the history of Alabama’s agriculture. The introduction of peanuts to Alabama and the enslavement of African people cannot be removed from a lesson such as this – nor should it. It is through value-based education that social studies contributes the most to STEM and STEAM lessons. This article is significant in that it demonstrates a history lesson that is active rather than passive. This article …