Brainball:Teaching Inquiry and Social Studies as a Team Sport is an attempt to clarify that not only is social studies a game, but that it is one of the most useful and powerful games that teachers and students will ever play. Games are the doing of theory, and maybe it would be a good idea to start doing social studies in every social studies classroom.
Mickey Kolis is the author of six books dealing with teaching and learning, a veteran public school teacher, and currently a university professor. Making learning relevant is his highest professional aspiration.
Benjamin H. Kolis is an actor, director, theatre-maker and writer living in Minneapolis. MN.
Jessica Hobelsberger Flanagan has taught high school social studies for 11 years, and has taught many courses including various history classes as well as Global Issues, Economics, Law, and Civics.