Full Description
For courses in Elementary Social Studies Methods.
This package includes the Enhanced Pearson eText and the print bound text.
A practical guide that helps elementary social studies teachers activate a dynamic learning experience, inspiring children to understand and participate in the world around them.
Practical and dynamic are the hallmarks of the widely popular Dynamic Social Studies, and this new edition steps up its focus with a fresh design and a number of updates that give readers a clear vision of the most effective ways to teach social studies to elementary school students—with the hope of inspiring them to become informed, rational, and culturally responsive citizens. Using a constructivist framework, key instructional approaches, literacy-based pedagogy, text sets, activities, and illustrative classroom scenarios, the book focuses on motivation, creativity, and the excellent examples of experienced teachers to help readers breathe life into their social studies teaching.
In addition to new, authentic classroom scenarios, the Eleventh Edition also includes four new chapters (5-8) that reflect current best practices and align to the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies Standards, and the Common Core Standards. Current, practical, and dynamic, this book provides the foundation that pre- and in-service teachers need to create the most effective, creative elementary social studies classrooms.
Invigorate learning with the Enhanced Pearson eText
The Enhanced Pearson eText provides a rich, interactive learning environment designed to improve student mastery of content with embedded video examples, video exploration exercises, and self-check quizzes. The Enhanced Pearson eText is also available without a print version of the textbook.
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Contents
Section One: Foundational Principles
1. Social Studies: The Subject You Will Teach
2. Effective Instructional Planning
Section Two: Methods and Strategies to Reach and Teach Your Students
3. Social Constructivism: Constructing Meaning via Collaborative Encounters
4. Cognitive Constructivism: A Spotlight on Project-Based Learning
Section Three: Instructional Resources
5. Beyond the Ordinary: Teaching and Learning with Concrete Instructional Resources
6. Beyond the Ordinary: Teaching and Learning with Representational Instructional Resources
7. Beyond the Ordinary: Teaching and Learning with Informational and Persuasive Text
8. Beyond the Ordinary: Teaching and Learning with Narrative Text
Section Four: Lenses on Learning: Six Social Sciences
9. Young Historians: Learning to Unlock the Past
10. Geography: Exploring the People—Place Connection
11. Civics: Young Citizens in Action
12. Economics: Thinking and Choosing Responsibly
13. Sociology and Anthropology: Social Structures and Culture
Author Index
Subject Index
