Full Description
This book provides teachers, librarians, and education methods professors with strategies, lesson plans, and activities that enable them to use literature as a springboard to social studies thematic instruction.
With the amount of time and resources allocated to teaching social studies being significantly reduced, social studies lessons need to be incorporated into other subjects. Notable Books, Notable Lessons: Putting Social Studies Back in the K-8 Curriculum offers the tools to teach students social studies concepts that are increasingly relevant and essential in today's diverse, globalized world—lessons that are vital in order to prepare students to think critically and participate in our multicultural democracy.
Providing information that elementary and middle school teachers and librarians, district-level curriculum directors and principals, staff developers, and social studies and literacy methods professors will find extremely useful, this book uses the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS)/Children's Book Council (CBC)'s current and past lists of Notable Books at the elementary and middle school levels to offer easy-to-follow lesson plans that integrate social studies instruction with reading and language arts. The lesson plans pose compelling questions to facilitate discussion and critical thinking and suggest engaging activities that are connected to the social studies concepts. The book also includes sample student handouts for the selected pieces of literature.
Contents
1 Introduction
2 Culture
Primary: Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella
Lesson by Katrina Yoder and Paul J. Yoder
Intermediate: Inside Out and Back Again
Lesson by Noreen Naseem Rodríguez
Middle: Muchacho
Lesson by Sung Choon Park
3 Time, Continuity, and Change
Primary: The Tree
Lesson by Lisa Hardey
Intermediate: Unspoken: A Story from the Underground Railroad
Lesson by Jennifer Burke
Middle: Counting on Grace
Lesson by Jing Williams and Susan Gapp
4 People, Places, and Environments
Primary: At the Same Moment, Around the World
Lesson by Lynne Farrell Stover
Intermediate: Healthy Kids
Lesson by Andrea Libresco, Jeannette Balantic, and Mary Battenfeld
Middle: Canary in the Coal Mine
Lesson by Don Campbell
5 Individual Development and Identity
Primary: In Our Mothers' House
Lesson by Christina Tschida and Lisa Brown Buchanan
Intermediate: The Arrival
Lesson by Noreen Naseem Rodríguez
Middle: Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement
Lesson by Laura Bauer and Maram Mabrouk
6 Individuals, Groups, and Institutions
Primary: Climbing Lincoln's Steps: The African American Journey
Lesson by Deborah Morowski
Intermediate: When Rivers Burned: The Earth Day Story
Lesson by Ryan Hughes
Middle: Irena Sendler and the Children of the Warsaw Ghetto
Lesson by Kathleen Kavet
7 Power, Authority, and Governance
Primary: We March
Lesson by Debra Erikson
Intermediate: Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation
Lesson by Mary Battenfeld, Andrea Libresco, and Jeannette Balantic
Middle: Denied, Detained, Deported: Stories from the Dark Side of American Immigration
Lesson by Kristy Brugar
8 Production, Distribution, and Consumption
Primary: Last Stop on Market Street
Lesson by Jeannette Balantic, Mary Battenfeld, and Andrea Libresco
Intermediate: The History of Money: From Bartering to Banking
Lesson by Melinda Odom Staubs
Middle: Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave
Lesson by Melinda Odom Staubs
9 Science, Technology, and Society
Primary: Me ... Jane
Lesson by JoAnn Wood
Intermediate: The Inventor's Secret: What Thomas Edison Told Henry Ford
Lesson by Andrea Libresco, Jeannette Balantic, and Mary Battenfeld
Middle: Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way)
Lesson by Andrea Libresco, Jeannette Balantic, and Mary Battenfeld
10 Global Connections
Primary: Dear Primo: A Letter to My Cousin
Lesson by Elizabeth M. Frye, Eric Groce, and Robin Groce
Intermediate: Return to Sender
Lesson by Brenda Ayala Lewis
Middle: After Gandhi: One Hundred Years of Nonviolent Resistance
Lesson by Karen Hildebrand
11 Civic Ideals and Practices
Primary: Carl the Complainer
Lesson by M. Gail Hickey
Intermediate: Lady Liberty: A Biography
Lesson by George Lipscomb
Middle: Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickels; Jump into the Sky
Lesson by Karen Hildebrand
12 Conclusion
Bibliography of Notable Books Spotlighted in Each Chapter
Index
