Best Practices for Teaching Social Studies: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do

by Randi Stone

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781632205469
Publisher:	Skyhorse
Publication date:	07/28/2015
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	120
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Randi Stoneis the author ofnine Corwin Press books: Best Practices for Teaching Reading: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, Best Practices for Teaching Social Studies: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, Best Practices for Teaching Writing: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, Best Practices for Teaching Mathematics: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, and Best Practices for Teaching Science: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do. She is a graduate of Clark University, Boston University, and Salem State College. She completed her doctorate in education at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

Table of Contents

Preface     vii
Acknowledgments     ix
About the Author     xi
About the Contributors     xiii
Elementary and Middle School     1
Celebrating Our Constitution   Diana Schmiesing     3
Investigating Historical Objects and Pictures   Diana Schmiesing     7
Tasting: A Cultural and Culinary Journey to Italy   Sandra Noel     9
A Tale of a Whale   John Pieper     19
The Art of Social Studies/The Social Studies in Art   William Fitzhugh     23
Assembly-Line Lunches   Kari Debbink     27
The History Kids: Celebrating Our Local Heritage   Carol Glanville     31
Who Would You Help?   Kari Debbink     35
Exploring Diversity Through Technology   Marsha Mathias     37
When They "Just Don't Get It": Homework and Study Skills   Monique Wallen     43
High School     49
Putting the "Social" Back Into Social Studies   Megan E. Garnett     51
A Social Studies Twist on the "Hemingway Challenge"   Megan E. Garnett     57
World War II Memories: An Oral History Project   Marguerite Ames     61
Life-Changing Field Trips   James Wade D'Acosta     71
Crafting Individualized Research Projects   James Wade D'Acosta     79
Promoting Citizenship   Teresa Heinhorst     89
Reflections From a High School History Teacher   Robert Rodey     93
Index     99

Editorial Reviews

"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

"You can easily adapt these practical lessons for your own classroom. Each chapter shows how social studies can be tied to a multiplicity of disciplines, including history, geography, math, science, and technology. "

Lindy G. Poling