Powerful Social Studies for Elementary Students -

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Résumé :
Ideal for pre-service and in-service teachers, POWERFUL SOCIAL STUDIES FOR ELEMENTARY STUDENTS outlines ways to select content and teach history, geography and social sciences more meaningfully. Hone skills in planning well-organized social studies instruction that produces positive student outcomes using developmentally appropriate content and methods to help your students develop social understanding and civic action. Rather than advocating the elimination of the traditional content framework used to organize the social studies curriculum ('expanding communities framework'), the authors call for retaining the most important topics that have traditionally been emphasized and for teaching these topics in 'more coherent and powerful ways.'

1. Elementary Social Studies: What is it? What might it become? 2. How can I build a Learning Community in my Classroom: Strategies for including all Children. 3. How do I select powerful Goals and powerful Content? 4. What Social Studies planning tools are available? 5. How can I teach History powerfully? 6. How can I teach Geography and Anthropology content powerfully? 7. How can I teach the other Social Science content powerfully? 8. How can I structure Classroom Discourse to help students develop Social Studies understandings? 9. How can I assess Student Learning? 10. What are some other Strategies for teaching Social Studies? 11. How can I design, implement, and evaluate Instructional Activities? 12. What is the role of Curricular Integration? 13. How can the Curriculum be expanded and made more powerful through Homework? 14: What is the Research Base that informs ideas about powerful Social Studies teaching?