Big Question: Is it best to teach economics as it's own course or should we focus more one including economic principals in all of our social studies classes?
Big Question: If civics is the reason that social studies gets a seat at the big table, how can we show that all of the social studies can be as important as civics?
Big Question: Is it fair to say that we as teachers are not covering certain topics in as much detail as we should but also complain that we are not getting to the recent past?
Big Question: How can we as teachers possibly know everything we need to teach for all of the areas that make up social studies? Is it okay to tell students we don't know the answer to some of their questions?