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Elementary Social Studies: A Practical Guide, 7/e is designed to focus on central concerns in teaching social studies in a standards-based environment.  This is a brief text which enables teachers to successfully implement a social studies curriculum with concepts, strategies, and values relevant to elementary and middle grades.   

Table of Contents:
Preface   1. THE ELEMENTARY SOCIAL STUDIES CURRICULUM Images of the Social Studies - Small Group Work: What Works Best? - Small Group Work: How Important Is Social Studies to You? What Are the Goals of Social Studies? - What Is Social Studies? - More Emphasis on History - On Your Own: Should It Be Social Studies or History, Civics, Geography? - Your Choice - On Your Own: Compare the Approaches What Should be Taught?   State Standards and “No Child Left Behind.” - National Standards - State Standards - Changing States’ Role and NCLB - On Your Own: What Is Your Reaction to State Social Studies Standards?        Should Values and Character Education be Taught? - Role Model - Values - Character Education - Your Decision on Values - On Your Own: What Are the Sources of Your Values? What Are the National Curriculum Patterns? - On Your Own:  Your State Curriculum Why Are Textbooks Important? - On Your Own: Compare the Texts: Identify Differences - Scope and Sequence - Small Group Work: Check Were You Stand Summary Suggested Readings and Web Sites   2. PLANNING for SOCIAL STUDIES INSTRUCTION Planning - Small Group Work: Your Concept of Planning - Busy Teachers - Value of Written Lesson Plans - The Reflective Teacher - Getting Started: Locating Resources - On Your Own: Issues that Affect Social Studies Planning Goals, Long-Range Planning, and Standards/Instructional Objectives - Long-Range Planning - The Textbook - Content, Standards, and Instructional Objectives - On Your Own: Facilitate Child-Focus Planning - Instructional Cycle Treasury of Resources and Technology for Planning - Student, Parent and Family Resources - Community Resources - Media Resources - Current Events/Current Affairs Units - Textbook Units - Commercial Units - Teacher-Made Units - Other Teacher-Made Units Integrated Curriculum/Interdisciplinary Thematic Units - Designing Integrated Units - Small Group Work: Identify Academic Disciplines and Skills in Grasslands - Two Units on Hawaii - Critiquing the Two Units - Travel Day - Elements in a Unit - On Your Own: What Are the Strengths of These Activities? Lesson Plans - Planning for the Inclusive Classroom/Adaptations - Tips for Writing Lesson Plans - Small Group Work: Locating Interesting Lesson Plans - Organizing and Scheduling - Summary - Suggested Readings and Web Sites   3. INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES Different Methods - Learning Styles - Example of Using a Wide Variety of Methods What Happens in Real Classrooms? - Teacher’s Decisions - On Your Own: Finding Your Style Direct Teaching: From Passive to Active Learning - Correcting the Faults of “Talking All the Time.” - Teaching a Concept: Organizations - Evaluating Direct Teaching - Small Group Work: When to Use Direct Teaching Problem-Based Learning and Thinking - Formal Steps in Thinking or Inquiry - Defining the Problem - Generating Ideas - Small Group Work: Take the Student Role - Gathering Data - Evaluating Data - Practice Information Activities - Accepting or Rejecting a Hypothesis - On Your Own: Just the Facts Inductive Thinking and Questioning - Inductive Thinking - Questioning Cooperative or Collaborative Learning - Importance of Small Discussion Skills - Definitions of Cooperative Learning - Decisions for Cooperative Learning - Size of the Group - Roles - Room Arrangement - Jigsaw - Other Problem Areas - Small Group Work: Trying Out Small Group Activities Role Playing - Small Group Work: Try a Role Play Simulations - On Your Own: Research by Doing Summary Suggested Readings and Web Sites   4. USING MULTIPLE ASSESSMENTS TO EVALUATE STUDENTS’ LEARNING IN THE SOCIAL STUDIES Perceptions of Testing - Definitions - The Student - The Parent or Guardian - The Teacher - Administrators - The Community and the State - Measurement and Evaluation Experts - Small Group Work: Accountability Federal And State Roles in Testing - Federal Role - National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) - State Testing - Types of State Tests - Teachers Need to Research Their State Tests - Small Group Work: What Are the Effects of State Testing? Performance-Based Assessment - Portfolios - Small Group Work: What Are Your Experiences with Portfolios? - Essays - Examples of Essay Questions - Scoring - Outside Assessors - Written Assessment Tasks - Short-Constructed Response Questions - Small Group Work: Your Reaction to “My Famous Place in History.” Summary Paper and Pencil Tests - Short Answer - Matching - True-False or Binary-Choice Items - Selected Response or Multiple Choice Questions - Diagnosis and Corrective Reteaching Informal Evaluations - Students Answering Questions - Keep Anecdotal Note Cards on Student Behavior? - “Catching” Observation Data - Glancing at Student Work on the Fly: Assessing the Attainment of a Concept - Self-Evaluation Conferences, Grades and Report Cards - Conferences - Grades and Report Cards - Small Group Work: Tell the “Truth” Summary Suggested Readings and Web Sites   5. AIDING OUR STUDENTS TO INTERPRET HISTORY Central Place of History in the Social Studies Curriculum     - On Your Own: What Do You Think? - What about History in the Primary Grades - The Holiday Curriculum - Primary History Standards - Small Group Work: Your Reaction? - Small Group Work: Controversial Issues for the First Grade? History Wars - National History Standards - Small Group Work: Dull Elementary History Texts? - NAEP History Results History Definitions and Issues - Definitions - Students’ Prior Knowledge - Coverage versus depth - Drama Learning about Time and Chronology - Timelines - Linking History and Trade Books - Using Trade Books and Magazines - Books Used for a History Theme - Using Biographies During History or Being an Historian - Oral History - Analysis of Data - On Your Own: Worth the Work? - Studying Local History - Historical Objects Primary and Secondary Sources - Artifacts - Using Sources in the Upper Grades The Promise of the Internet Summary Suggested Readings and Web Sites   6. TEACHING GEOGRAPHY Are Students and Adults Geographic Literate? - Importance of Geography - Geography Standards - State Standards - Local Geography in K-8 Curriculum - Using Multiple Standards - NAEP 2001 Geography Results - National Geographic-Roper 2002 Global Geographic Literacy Survey           - On Your Own: Teaching Your Own: Teaching Your Geography State Standards Beyond State Capitals: Making Geography Engaging - Start with the Students - Trade Books - Controversial Issues Teaching Map and Globe Skills - Ability Levels - Field Trips - The Local and Beyond the Local - Specific Map Skills - Understanding a Wide Variety of Maps - Mapmaking - Summary on Map Skills   Summary. Suggested Readings and Web Sites.   7. TEACHING ECONOMICS Economic Standards - Importance of Economics - National Economic Standards - State Standards - Rationale for Teaching Economics - Different Interpretations - Children and Economics - Small Group Work: Should We Be Teaching about Mortgages? Strategies for Teaching Economics Teaching about Costs and Benefits at the Primary Level - Teaching about Production and Exchange - Small Group Work: How Did You Learn about Economic Concepts? - General Methods for Economics in the Fourth to Eighth Grades - History as the Background for Economics - Skits, Dramatic Reenactments and Simulations - Small Group Work: Economic Reasoning - World of Work - Consumer Education Small Group Work: The Role of the World of Work and Consumer Education Summary Suggested Readings and Websites   8. TEACHING CIVIC EDUCATION Civic Education - Improvement? - Teaching Patriotism - Small Group Work: Your Choice Classroom Civic Education - Rules - A Caring Classroom - Small Group Work: Class Cooperative Planning - Conflict Resolution - Small Group Work: Bullying Instruction in Civic Education - Standards for Civic Education - Formal Instruction - Current Events/Current Affairs Programs - On Your Own: When Is It Appropriate to Share Images?  When Better to Shield Children? - Teaching Controversial Events - Small Group Work: Viewpoints on Controversial Issues - Values in the Classroom for Civic Education - Civic Education in Schools Linking School-wide Citizenship to the Community - Service Learning or Community Participation - Implementing Service Learning - Small Group Work: Links to the Community Teaching Global Education - Three Themes of a Universal Curriculum - Human Rights: Refugees and Gender Issues - Environmental/Ecological Problems - Small Group Work: Interest Level Summary Suggested Readings and Web Sites   9. HELPING ALL OUR DIVERSE STUDENTS Growing Diversity - Definitions - Small Group Work: Know Yourself - Know Your Class - On Your Own: Personal Life? - Learning about Yourself Gender - Academic Differences - Females - On Your Own: Still Sexism? - Males - Small Group Work: Do Boys Need More Attention? - Name-Calling - Small Group Work: What Should be Done? Multicultural Education - Multicultural Teaching - Other Strategies for Teaching Multicultural Education - Small Group Work: Your Role in Multicultural Education Teaching Religion Teacher’s Role Exceptionalities - The Gifted - Other Forms of Exceptionalities - Suggestions for Teaching Differentiated Instruction - Small Group Work: Differentiated Classroom? Summary Suggested Readings and Web Sites   10. LINKING SOCIAL STUDIES AND LITERACY Linking Social Studies and Literacy - Typical Social studies Instructional Activities - On Your Own: Worksheets? Meeting the Needs of English Language Learners - Growing Numbers - Essential Skills - First Step: Making Ells (and everyone else) Welcome - Getting Materials - Sheltered English or SDAIE Strategies - Machine-Language Software and Media - Assessments - Small Group Work: Actual Practice Reading - Pre-reading or Engagement - The Text Structure or Approach - Post-Reading Activities - Small Group Work: Motivation Listening and Writing - Listening - Writing - Written Assessment Tasks - Hints on Informal Writing Assignments - Reports - Small Group Work: Reports - Summary Suggested Readings and Web Sites


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780205593521
  • Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
  • Publisher Imprint: Pearson
  • Height: 191 mm
  • No of Pages: 352
  • Sub Title: A Practical Guide
  • Width: 233 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0205593526
  • Publisher Date: 17 Apr 2008
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 14 mm
  • Weight: 594 gr


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