Social Studies for the Elementary and Middle Grades : A Constructivist Approach, MyLabSchool Edition

by Sunal, Cynthia Szymanski; Haas, Ma

• ISBN13: 9780205464883
• ISBN10: 0205464882
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2005-01-01
• Publisher: PEARSON

Summary

Packed with activities, teaching strategies, and the latest on the constructivist approach, this text demonstrates how to use developmentally appropriate strategies to help students construct important social studies ideas and skills. Building on the success of the first edition, Social Studies for the Elementary and Middle Grades fosters students development through powerful social studies learning. The text discusses flexible strategies for teaching today's diverse learners, the structure of the knowledge to be learned, how to help students reconstruct present ideas, and how to translate theory and recent research into lesson plans and units. Constructivist teaching using guided inquiry is the focus of every chapter. Each chapter begins with an exploratory activity that lets students bring up their prior knowledge on the chapters topic and challenges them to recognize where it is insufficient. Then, the chapter moves into the more teacher-guided phase where students find explanations and explanatory activities. Lastly, each chapter involves students in an expansion phase where applications of the main ideas of the chapter are related to other contexts.

Table of Contents

Meaningful Social Studies and the Student

Social Studies in the Elementary and Middle School

Building on Diversity: Meaningful Social Studies

Education for Active Citizenship

Using Technology: Deciding Whether and When (featurebox). Social Studies is Essential

Curriculum Patterns in Social Studies

Planning Powerful Social Studies Lessons

Making a Literture Connection: Considering Quality for Social Studies Instruction (featurebox)

Learning Cycle: Making Good Rules

Teaching for Meaningful Learning in Social Studies

How is Social Studies Best Taught in Today''s Classrooms?

Applying what We Know About Meaningful Learning to Social Studies Curriculum

An Effective Strategy to Assist Students in Conceptual Change

Learning Cycle: National Memorials and the Display of Power

Making a Literature Connection: Portraying Power (featurebox)

Using Technology: Take an Electronic Field Trip (featurebox)

Phases of a Learning Cycle Lesson Learning Cycle: Sequencing Social Studies Instruction Buiding on Diversity: Opportunities to Include Multiple Perspectives (featurebox)

Principles of Teaching and Learning Supporting the Curriculum Standards for Social Studies

Helping Students Develop Inquiry Skills in Social Studies

Using Inquiry Skills to Develop Students'' Social Studies Ideas

Early Inquiry Skills

Building on Diversity: Early Inquiry Skills (featurebox)

Social Studies Inquiry Skills

Observations, Inferences, and Hypotheses

Attitudes and Dispositions Promoting Powerful Social Studies

Making a Literature Connection: Demonstrating Powerful Attitudes and Dispositions (featurebox)

Teaching Lessons in Which Students Use Integrative Thinking Skills

Using Technology: Fostering Inquiry Skills (featurebox)

Creating an Environment Promoting Student Thinking in Social Studies

Using Technology: Broadcast Media and Copyright Law: What You Can and Cannot Do (featurebox)

Implementing Activities that Teach Inquiry Skills

Assessing the Use of Inquiry Skills

Hierarchy of Inquiry Skills

Helping Students Construct Concepts Through Conceptual Change

Concept Teaching Starts with Reflection and Practice

Facts as Social Studies Content

Forming Concepts

Types of Concepts Building on Diversity: Defining Concepts (featurebox)

Interrelationships Among Concepts

Differences in Complexity and Abstractness of Concepts

Making a Literature Connection: Recognizing Its Limitations (featurebox)

Building on Diversity: Cultural Factors and Concepts (featurebox)

Teaching Concepts

Learning Cycle: Productive Resources

Using Technology: Examples of Resources for Helping Students Build concepts (featurebox)

Helping Students Use Inquiry to Build Generalizations

Development of Generalizations

Making a Literature Connection: The Message is a Generalization (featurebox)

Building on Diversity: Using Resources to Support Learning a Generalization (featurebox)

Characteristics of the Exploratory Introduction Phase

Characteristics of the Lesson Development Phase

Using Technology: Supporting Students'' Inquiry (featurebox)

Characteristics of the Expansion Phase

Formative Evaluation and the Inquiry Process

Inquiry Teaching and the National Standards in Social Studies

Using Instructional Strategies That Help Students Learn

Becoming and Effective Planner of A Social Studies Program

Using Technology: Creating a Collaborative Classroom (featurebox)

An Interview with Mike Yell on Cooperative Learning

A Continuum of Instruction

Matching Instructional Strategies to Students Needs

Matching Types of Instructional Activities to Each Phase of the Lesson

Make a Literature Connection: Reading Literature (featurebox)

Building on Diversity: Prereading Activities (featurebox)

Classroom Management for Powerful Social Studies

Using Action Research to Create More Effective Instruction

Helping Students Relate to Individuals and Communities

Respect for Students and for Oneself as a Teacher

Learning Cycle: Sharing and Negotiation

Some Areas Affective the Development of Self-Concept

Making a Literature Connection: Supporting Development of Self Respect (featurebox)

Values and Moral Education

Using

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