Download or read book Creative Adventures in Social Studies written by Daniel Peppercorn and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides social studies teachers and education professors with new ideas that will invigorate their classrooms and energize students. These creative activities and resources will help teachers make learning fun, inject humor into the classroom, and illustrate the connections between American history, cultural changes, human behavior, current events, and students' lives. The lessons tap into students' creativity, encourage spontaneity, cater to visual and aural learners, involve movement, and incorporate art.
Download or read book Social Studies Through the Year written by Deborah Plona Cerbus and published by Teacher Created Resources. This book was released on 1999 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loaded with social activities for the whole school year for primary grades.
Download or read book Children and Social Studies written by Murry R. Nelson and published by Wadsworth Publishing Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CHILDREN AND SOCIAL STUDIES, THIRD EDITION, introduces student teachers to the fundamentals of teaching this constantly evolving discipline. The updates in the Third Edition reflect current social and technological trends which have greatly influenced changes in education, with new chapters and discussions on multiculturalism, attention to constructivism, as well as the Internet and its classroom applications. Information is presented in concise and understandable segments, with special tips and inserts helpful for establishing creative and effective instructional methods.
Download or read book Activities for Elementary School Social Studies written by James W. Stockard, Jr. and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2010-04-09 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Piaget, all higher-order thinking skills have their bases in activities involving concrete manipulation and observation. The third edition of this highly regarded collection of social studies activities continues to be based on the premise that children learn best through experiences and activities—learning by doing. It features new activities for each social studies category (geography, history, anthropology, sociology, economics, political science, and interdisciplinary). Three important new additions to the key elements of the easy-to-follow activity format make it easier for instructors to meet standards-based curriculum requirements: A detailed treatment of National Council of Social Studies standards addressed; specific multiple intelligences addressed (also reinforced by a multiple intelligences section in the back of the book); and useful Web site(s) for group/individual research (URLs for sites that will expand or enrich the learning experience for the activity). By engaging pupils in meaningful, worthwhile social studies activities, instructors can emphasize the processes of learning rather than the products, resulting in a richly rewarding experience for pupils and teacher alike.
Download or read book Social Studies for the Creative Mind written by Jeffrey B Harris M Ed and published by . This book was released on 2013-08-17 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get away from those traditional, out-dated classroom ideas! The activities in this book can be molded to fit a variety of lessons and will be beneficial for any social studies teacher. There are dozens of creative learning exercises that will have your students running TO class, not FROM it!
Download or read book Social Studies for a Better World An Anti Oppressive Approach for Elementary Educators Equity and Social Justice in Education written by Noreen Naseem Rodriguez and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plan and deliver a curriculum to help your students connect with the humanity of others! In the wake of 2020, we need today’s young learners to be prepared to develop solutions to a host of entrenched and complex issues, including systemic racism, massive environmental problems, deep political divisions, and future pandemics that will severely test the effectiveness and equity of our health policies. What better place to start that preparation than with a social studies curriculum that enables elementary students to envision and build a better world? In this engaging guide two experienced social studies educators unpack the oppressions that so often characterize the elementary curriculum—normalization, idealization, heroification, and dramatization—and show how common pitfalls can be replaced with creative solutions. Whether you’re a classroom teacher, methods student, or curriculum coordinator, this is a book that can transform your understanding of the social studies disciplines and their power to disrupt the narratives that maintain current inequities.
Download or read book The Social Studies Helper written by Denise Fawcett Facey and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2010 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: activities and projects. Yet these make such an important difference in the classroom. Creative assignments can enhance lessons, spark student interest, and serve as assessments of genuine learning that tests do not always measure. Based on the highest levels of Bloom's taxonomy, The Social Studies Helper easily integrates technology into every core high school social studies course as well as two electives. Creative assignments are designed to appeal to visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learning styles as the students are immersed in research, role-playing, art, and other activities. This book also offers tips for differentiation, as needed, with a particular emphasis on modifications for special education students who have processing difficulties. This is the resource book that teachers will turn to again and again throughout the school year. The Social Studies Helper is all the help needed, with innovative activities and projects, along with corresponding rubrics --
Download or read book Swashbuckling Social Studies written by Sarah Philpott and published by Legion Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swashbuckling Social Studies is jam-packed with monologues, skits, songs, and creative writing projects that allow young scholars to put words into the mouths of social studies topics. These fresh, fun twists on social studies will have your students begging for history class! And you'll say yes, because these research-based activities promote literacy, build research skills, allow students to engage in public speaking, encourage social studies content knowledge, and make history come alive. This is readers' theater at its absolute best. For grades 4-8.
Download or read book Social Studies for the Twenty First Century written by Jack Zevin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-01-09 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its 4th edition, this popular text offers practical, interesting, exciting ways to teach social studies and a multitude of instructional and professional resources for teachers. Theory, curriculum, methods, and assessment are woven into a comprehensive model for setting objectives; planning lessons, units, and courses; choosing classroom strategies; and constructing tests for some of the field's most popular and enduring programs. The reflective and integrative framework emphasizes building imagination, insight, and critical thinking into everyday classrooms; encourages problem-solving attitudes and behavior; and provokes analysis, reflection, and debate. The text includes separate chapters on teaching each of the major areas of the social studies curriculum. Throughout the text, all aspects of curriculum and instruction are viewed from a tripartite perspective that divides social studies instruction into didactic (factual), reflective (analytical), and affective (judgmental) components. These three components are seen as supporting one another, building the groundwork for taking stands on issues, past and present. At the center is the author's belief that the heart and soul of social studies instruction, perhaps all teaching, lies in stimulating the production of ideas; looking at knowledge from others' viewpoints; and formulating for oneself a set of goals, values, and beliefs that can be explained and justified in open discussion. New in the Fourth Edition: Clear links to the The National Council for the Social Studies College, Career and Civic Life C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards Attention to impact of high-stakes testing, Common Core State Standards, and related ongoing developments Expanded and critical review of the use of internet, web, and PowerPoint technologies Coverage of how to incorporate the many social science, humanities, and STEM fields to enrich the social studies Updates and revisions throughout, including new research reports reflecting current findings, new examples, more media and materials resources, particularly digital resources, new and updated pedagogical features Companion Website - new for this edition
Download or read book Social Studies Adventures in Team Building written by Bonnie J. Krueger and published by Lorenz Educational Press. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Promote community in the classroom with this collection of simple class-participation games and exercises based on social studies topics. Students will find new heroes, create a classroom constitution, develop timelines, discuss professions, and more! The activities challenge students by combining student interaction with problem solving. They can be completed in a short amount of time or expanded through multiple rounds, making it easy to incorporate them into your day-to-day lesson plans.
Download or read book Living History in the Classroom written by Douglas Selwyn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a rationale for using the arts to teach social studies, describes lessons based on the theater, drawing and cartooning, commercials, media, writing and literature, music, and hands-on projects, and includes three lessons designed to encourage students to think about the nature of history.
Download or read book Digging Deeper written by M. Gail Hickey and published by Information Age Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experts in social studies education and gifted education share teacher-tested strategies for differentiating social studies in K-12 classrooms. Chapter authors showcase best-practice and research-based lessons and activities that enrich and expand social studies instruction while building K-12 students' critical and creative thinking. Each chapter contains two or more teacher-tested lessons or activities linking social studies content and concepts to the standards and recommendations of the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) and National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS). This edited volume is targeted toward K-12 teachers and administrators, gifted education coordinators and consultants, parents of gifted children, social studies methods instructors, and central office administrators. Each chapter contains activities that can be adapted and replicated in teachers' classrooms. Chapters focus on significant social studies topics such as civic education, historical thinking, drama, and teaching with primary sources. Each topic is approached in ways that meet the needs of gifted education students. Through its emphasis on critical thinking, inquiry-based instruction, and higher order thinking skills, activities and lessons in the book challenge K-12 educators to raise the bar for classroom instruction in ways that improve opportunities of learning for all students.
Download or read book Collecting for the Curriculum written by Amy J. Catalano and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you're a librarian charged with collecting curriculum materials and children's literature to support the Common Core State Standards, then this bookthe only one that offers explicit advice on collection development in curriculum collectionsis for you. While there are many publications on the Common Core for school librarians and K12 educators, no such literature exists for curriculum librarians at the post-secondary level. This book fills that gap, standing alone as a guide to collection development for curriculum librarians independent of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). The book provides instruction and guidance to curriculum librarians who acquire and manage collections so you can develop a collection based on best practices. The book begins with a primer on the CCSS and how curriculum librarians can support them. Discussion of the Standards is then woven through chapters, arranged by content area, that share research-based practices in curriculum development and instruction to guide you in curriculum selection. Material types covered include games, textbooks, children's literature, primary sources, counseling, and nonfiction. Additional chapters cover the management of curriculum collections, testing collections, and instruction and reference, as well as how to support and collect for special needs learners. Current practices in collection development for curriculum materials librarians are also reviewed. The book closes with a discussion of the future of curriculum materials.
Download or read book Making Social Studies Come Alive written by Marilyn Kretzer and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 1996 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of hands on learning activities with creative ideas that fit in nicely with alternative assessments.
Download or read book The Everything Kids Learning Activities Book written by Amanda Morin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who says learning can't be fun? Using the word "educational" can be the quickest way to lose a child's interest. But the games, projects, and experiments in The Everything Kids' Learning Activities Book are so much fun, your kids won't even know they're learning! Not only will your kids be entertained and have fun, they'll learn skills in the key areas of reading, writing, math, science, and social studies. With 145 indoor and outdoor activities including: Comic strip sequencing Round robin storytelling Lollipop patterns The 25-cent pyramid Cookie fractions Balloon terrarium These activities are geared for kids aged 5–12, making this a go-to resource for years to come. And most activities use materials that are in your house! This easy-to-use guide is full of creative ideas and expert advice to help you be your kids' best learning partner.
Download or read book Organic Creativity in the Classroom written by Jane Piirto and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-03 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creativity can be taught and nurtured, and we can build classrooms in which creativity thrives. This philosophy acts as a central thesis in a new book, Organic Creativity in the Classroom, edited by award-winning author Jane Piirto, Ph.D. This innovative collection of essays explores approaches to teaching creativity from the perspective of experienced educators and artists. The 23 authors have taught for more than 500 years combined, and in this book they share teaching stories and helpful strategies that can be used to encourage students to become more creative within specific domains. The authors include master teachers, curriculum theorists, holistic educators, and award-winning practitioners of writing, mathematics, science, social science, literature, foreign language, theater, songwriting, dance, music, and arts education, among other domains, who incorporate creativity and intuition into their classrooms. In this readable and lively book, they share their personal stories and practical advice for infusing creativity into the lives of students.
Download or read book Activities for Elementary School Social Studies written by James W. Stockard and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This resource volume for prospective social studies teachers thoroughly presents over one hundred activities that are wide-ranging & can be adapted for many grade levels.
