Best Practices for Teaching Social Studies : What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do

by Randi Stone

• ISBN13: 9781412924528
• ISBN10: 1412924529
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-06-05
• Publisher: Corwin Pr

Summary

This collection of outstanding, teacher-tested methods for K'12 social studies instruction for diverse classrooms offers fresh ideas and strategies covering citizenship, diversity, community, and more.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
About the Author	p. xi
About the Contributors	p. xiii
Elementary and Middle School	p. 1
Celebrating Our Constitution	p. 3
Investigating Historical Objects and Pictures	p. 7
Tasting: A Cultural and Culinary Journey to Italy	p. 9
A Tale of a Whale	p. 19
The Art of Social Studies/The Social Studies in Art	p. 23
Assembly-Line Lunches	p. 27
The History Kids: Celebrating Our Local Heritage	p. 31
Who Would You Help?	p. 35
Exploring Diversity Through Technology	p. 37
When They "Just Don't Get It": Homework and Study Skills	p. 43
High School	p. 49
Putting the "Social" Back Into Social Studies	p. 51
A Social Studies Twist on the "Hemingway Challenge"	p. 57
World War II Memories: An Oral History Project	p. 61
Life-Changing Field Trips	p. 71
Crafting Individualized Research Projects	p. 79
Promoting Citizenship	p. 89
Reflections From a High School History Teacher	p. 93
Index	p. 99
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