Inquiry-Based Lessons in U.S. History: Decoding the Past

ISBN-13: 9781618214232 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 212 str.

Jana Kirchner; Andrew McMichael

Opis

Inquiry-Based Lessons in U.S. History: Decoding the Past provides primary source lessons that focus on teaching U.S. history through inquiry to middle school students. Students will be faced with a question to answer or problem to solve and will examine primary sources for evidence to create hypothetical solutions. The chapters focus on key chronological periods (e.g., the Age of Exploration to the Civil Rights era) and follow the scope and sequence of major social studies textbooks, with activities linked to the U.S. History Content Standards and the Common Core State Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies. The three lesson plans in each chapter begin with an essential question that sets the focus for the primary sources and teaching strategies that follow. The lesson plans include differing types of primary sources such as photographs, speeches, political cartoons, historic maps, paintings, letters, and diary entries.

Recenzje

If you are looking for new ways to incorporate primary sources into your U.S. history lessons, then this book will provide you with some great ideas. From the nation's infancy through Civil Rights, you will have access to great lessons or can take the bits and pieces you need. I can honestly say that no U.S. history teacher would be disappointed with this book. It can serve you to have as a personal copy or to keep in a curriculum library.,Michael DiClemente, sixth grade teacher,MiddleWeb, 7/30/15

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Life Before 1600 Collision Of Cultures Chapter 3 1607–1650 Settling In Chapter 4 1650–1750 Colonial Development Chapter 5 1750–1783 The Path To The Independence Chapter 6 1783–1800 The New Nation Chapter 7 1803–1850 Westward Expansion Chapter 8 1850–1865 Sectionalism And The Civil War Chapter 9 1863–1877 Reconstruction Chapter 10 1840–1914 A Nation In Transition Chapter 11 1840–1900 Industrialization And Immigration Chapter 12 1914–1945 The Era Of World Wars Chapter 13 1940–1970 Civil Rights References About The Authors Common Core State Standards Alignment