Then teaching units are provided on themes
such as Inventors, People in U.S. History, My World (
Multicultural Studies), and In the U.S.A.. Each themed unit includes a handful of different lessons.
Because of available interactive technologies
such as the Internet, the social
studies classroom has the potential to revitalize the traditional notions of citizenship education that focus on «the documents and procedures of republican government, the accomplishments of our country and typically adopts an assimilationist rather than
multicultural view of history» (Cogan, Grossman, & Lei, 2000, p. 50).