Making Time for Social Studies: A Four-Step Process for Unit Planning in the Elementary Classroom (Implement engaging social studies units.)

Elementary social studies teachers often struggle to make time to teach social studies. In her book, Rachel Swearengin shows how this can be done in all elementary classrooms with the right tools. Her unit planning process supports teachers as they unpack social studies standards, providing them with strategies and practices specific to social studies that promote students’ participation and lasting interest.
Grades K–5 teachers can use this book to:

• Apply the claim-evidence-reasoning (CE...