Making Time for Social Studies (eBook)

A Four-Step Process for Unit Planning in the Elementary Classroom (Implement engaging social studies units.)

Rachel Swearengin (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024 | 1., Instruction
176 Seiten
Solution Tree Press (Verlag)
9781960574954 (ISBN)

Infos

Elementary teachers often struggle to make time to teach social studies. In her book, Rachel Swearengin shows how this can be done in all elementary classrooms with the right tools. Her unit planning process supports teachers as they unpack social studies standards, providing them with strategies and practices specific to social studies that promote students’ participation and lasting interest.

Grades K–5 teachers can use this book to:

• Apply the claim-evidence-reasoning (CER) approach to their assessments


• Employ key practices to ensure an enduring understanding of social studies standards


• Learn primary source analysis strategies to use with students


• Receive completed sample and planning templates for the K–2 and 3–5 grades


• Create their own social studies units and daily lesson plans using their completed planning templates


• Select grade-appropriate primary and secondary sources and understand the use of each

Contents:

Introduction

Chapter 1: Step 1—Unpacking Social Studies Standards

Chapter 2: Step 2—Creating Assessments

Chapter 3: Step 3—Choosing and Analyzing Primary Sources

Chapter 4: Step 4—Choosing and Analyzing Secondary Sources

Chapter 5: Turning Your Unit Into Daily Lesson Plans

Epilogue

Appendix A

Appendix B

References and Resources

Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.12.2024
• Verlagsort: Bloomington
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Unterrichtsvorbereitung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Grundschule
• ISBN-13: 9781960574954 / 9781960574954