Full Description
"Randi Stone has assembled an exciting collection of teaching methods to benefit all learners. The book brings together an esteemed group of teachers who are to be congratulated for sparking interest in a subject that is too often taught solely from a textbook."
—Heather E. Robinson, Fifth-Grade Teacher
Desert Canyon Elementary School, Scottsdale, AZ
Adopt or adapt these exemplary social studies strategies from the nation's best teachers!
Randi Stone transports readers into the lively classrooms of award-winning teachers in this collection of outstanding methods for teaching social studies to diverse elementary, middle, and high school learners.
Like its companion volumes for teaching writing, mathematics, and science, Best Practices for Teaching Social Studies presents firsthand accounts from educators offering fresh ideas and inquiry-based techniques to build student confidence, increase academic achievement, and develop critical thinking skills. Highlights include master teachers' tips on how to:
Organize and produce oral history projects
Use technology to explore diversity
Teach the art of geography and the geography of art
Put the "social" back into social studies, and more!
Beginning and experienced teachers alike will discover an abundance of creative teaching practices to strengthen the social studies curriculum.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Contributors
Part I. Elementary and Middle School
1. Celebrating Our Constitution - Diana Schmiesing, Virginia
2. Investigating Historical Objects and Pictures - Diana Schmiesing, Virginia
3. Tasting - Sandra Noel, Illinois
4. A Tale of a Whale - John Pieper, Wisconsin
5. The Art of Social Studies/The Social Studies in Art - William Fitzhugh, Maryland
6. Assembly-Line Lunches - Kari Debbink, Arizona
7. The History Kids - Carol Glanville, Rhode Island
8. Who Would You Help? - Kari Debbink, Arizona
9. Exploring Diversity Through Technology - Marsha Mathias, South Carolina
10. When They "Just Don't Get It" - Monique Wallen, Florida
Part II. High School
11. Putting the "Social" Back Into Social Studies - Megan E. Garnett, Virginia
12. A Social Studies Twist on the "Hemingway Challenge" - Megan E. Garnett, Virginia
13. World War II Memories - Marguerite Ames, Vermont
14. Life-Changing Field Trips - James Wade D'Acosta, Connecticut
15. Crafting Individualized Research Projects - James Wade D'Acosta, Connecticut
16. Promoting Citizenship - Teresa Heinhorst, Illinois
17. Reflections From a High School History Teacher - Robert Rodey, Teacher, Illinois
Index
