Implement Debate into Your Secondary Social Studies Classroom

In my relatively short time teaching, I have been asked this question numerous times by secondary students: Why are we learning social studies? What’s the point? Why do we need to learn it? Other teachers I have taught with have also been asked this question, which has always fascinated me.

By now, we are all familiar with the Holocaust.

Economics is one of the smaller and less talked about aspects of social studies, but a no less important concept for students.