Full Description
Fifteen chess-enhanced lesson plans address National Council for the Social Studies standards for grades 4-8 and help prepare students to succeed in University Interscholastic League (UIL) Chess Puzzle.
Implement the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) curriculum standards in your classroom with People, Places, Checkmates: Teaching Social Studies with Chess. In this unique volume, 15 lesson plans teach culture, history, geography, and citizenship through the history of chess and its relationship to art, civics, culture, economics, geography, government, and technology. This book will also help educators and librarians prepare students to succeed in University Interscholastic League (UIL) Chess Puzzle.
Each 40-minute lesson plan includes an NCSS theme, materials and sources, procedure, and evaluation. Each lesson is followed by an optional 10-25 minute chess exercise, composed of teacher background, procedure and materials, expected time, and evaluation. A separate chapter teaches the chess basics necessary for your students to actually play chess and successfully complete the optional exercises. Lesson plans complement upper elementary and middle school curricula in world history, U.S. history, geography, and social studies.
25 reproducibles, such as letters home to parents and worksheets
15 photographs of famous chess players and of students playing chess
28 chess diagrams and 7 examples of student work
A chronology of chess from ancient times to the present
A glossary of 90 chess terms from past and present, such as chatrang and en passant
Contents
? Chapter 1 Introduction
National Council for the Social Studies
Lesson Plan Overview
Organization of Chess Classes
Chess Equipment
? Chapter 2 The World of Chess
Lesson 1: Timelines
Exercise 1: Chatrang and Shatranj
Lesson 2: Maps
Exercise 2: Ninth-Century Chess Problem
Lesson 3: Silk Road
Exercise 3: Tandem Chess
Lesson 4: Legends around the World
Exercise 4: Mongolian Chess Legend
Lesson 5: Write a Legend
Exercise 5-A: Create a Problem
Exercise 5-B: Robin Hood and the Pawn
? Chapter 3 Chess and Society
Lesson 6: Rule Changes
Exercise 6: Slow-Paced Chess
Lesson 7: Noble Charades
Exercise 7: Chess with Dice
Lesson 8: Chess Legend of Columbus
Exercise 8: King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
Lesson 9: The Turk, Automaton Chess Player
Exercise 9: Endgame Problem from the Turk
Lesson 10: Federal Sets
Exercise 10: Thomas Jefferson
? Chapter 4 Chess and Citizenship
Lesson 11: Benjamin Franklin
Exercise 11: Bughouse
Lesson 12: Famous Chess Players
Exercise 12: Famous Chess Moves
Lesson 13: Chess Philanthropy
Exercise 13: Simultaneous Exhibition
Lesson 14: Chess Scholarships
Exercise 14: Check 'em Tech
Lesson 15: Immigration
Exercise 15: Foreign Chess Terms
? Chapter 5 Chess Basics
Rules of Chess
Win, Lose, or Draw
Reading and Writing Chess
Appendix A Answer Key
Appendix B References
Appendix C Chess at Colleges and Universities
Glossary
Index
