Kategoria BISAC: Education >> Teaching - Subjects - Social Science

Using the format of the original Through Children's Literature series of titles, Dr. Rogers expands the original series focus by discussing how instruction today and the use of integrated children's literature is Shaped by the Standards. Arranged around the national standards strands in Geography, this title includes an introduction that explains the strands and the standards and includes 2-4 lesson plans for each strand. The author identifies and explains the performance expectations and provide literature text sets for each strand. Graphic organizers and other supporting materials are...

This Handbook outlines the current state of research in social studies education - a complex, dynamic, challenging field with competing perspectives about appropriate goals, and on-going conflict over the content of the curriculum. Equally important, it encourages new research in order to advance the field and foster civic competence; long maintained by advocates for the social studies as a fundamental goal.

In considering how to organize the Handbook, the editors searched out definitions of social studies, statements of purpose, and themes that linked (or...

EDUCATION/ SOCIAL STUDIES

..". a much-needed addition to elementary social studies that will move the field ahead."

Keith C. Barton, University of Cincinnati

"This text fills a valuable niche and should quickly become a leading reference for teachers and teacher educators."

Linda S. Levstik, University of Kentucky

This book, resulting from a collaboration among an educational psychologist, a social studies educator, and a primary teacher, describes in rich detail and illustrates with excerpts from recorded lessons how primary...

New York, both the city and the state, were centers of the abolitionist struggle to finally end human bondage; however, at the same time, enslaved...

This accessible and practical teaching resource provides a basis for interpreting and accessing the national curriculum framework to include all pupils. Suggesting an inclusive framework of participation and achievement for all, the book provides

*a range of possible activities designed to be accessible to pupils with diverse individual needs

*reference to the P levels

*help with planning and monitoring the curriculum

*assessment and recording opportunities

*advice on teaching citizenship in a cross-curricular way

*suggestions to develop a...