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Social Studies Education Journals

Use the journals and professional publications below to locate quality lesson plans and strategies, as well as research.

VIDEO DEMONSTRATION: Get Started with Journal Searches
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Get started searching Social Education Journal, both by browsing individual issues, and by searching in the EBSCO interface for specific topics

Refereed Journals Containing Peer-reviewed Articles

Social Education (Browse journal issues)
Social Education (Search for specific topics)
Social Studies
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Social Studies and the Young Learner (from NCSS)
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Teaching History: A Journal of Methods (from Ball State U.)
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Education Week (EdWeek.org)
Resource for national K-12 education news and information, for teachers to principals to district leaders across the country. (UW-W does not subscribe. Access limited number of articles.)
Rethinking Schools
Professional magazine (Not peer reviewed).
No subscription necessary for HTML articles.
Teaching Tolerance (Learning for Justice)
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Professional magazine (Not peer reviewed).

Education Databases icon image credit Satawat Anukul

Use a database to search multiple journals and magazines simultaneously. Use combinations such as those pictured below:

"high school*" OR "middle school*" OR "secondary education"

AND

"lesson plan*" OR "activity programs" OR "units of study"

Education Research Complete The definitive online resource for education research. Covers all levels of education, from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties.
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ERIC (via EBSCOhost) The world's largest source of education information. More than 950,000 abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice, some linking out to full text.
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Search Starter: ERIC, Education Research Complete, and Academic Search
This search has been started for you as a model. Add your specific social studies topic to an open search box.