Book excerpt: "Cooperative learning & social studies will show you how to use cooperative learning strategies to make your social studies classroom come alive. Each of the 24 cooperative strategies includes an in-depth description, steps, activity ideas to use the strategy with other social studies content, and a lesson with ready-to-use activity sheets. Lessons are designed to teach themes including issues, geography, historical events, historical characters and current events. The book also includes how to get started, how to manage the cooperative social studies class, and what to do for assessment and evaluation." -- Publisher's web-site.