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Best Practices for Teaching Social Studies

What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do

Adopt or adapt these exemplary social studies strategies from the nation's best teachers!

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. Creative, firsthand accounts offer fresh and engaging ideas from master teachers to build student confidence, increase academic achievement, and develop critical thinking skills. Highlights include:

  • Organizing and producing oral history projects
  • Using technology to explore diversity
  • Teaching the art of geography and the geography of art
  • Putting the "social" back into social studies, and more!

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  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9781412924535
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2008
  • Page Count: 120
  • Publication date: January 28, 2013
Price: $24.95
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"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, Fifth-Grade Teacher
Desert Canyon Elementary School, Scottsdale, AZ

Adopt or adapt these exemplary social studies strategies from the nation's best teachers!

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.

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Randi Stone
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

Acknowledgments

About the Author

About the Contributors

Part I. Elementary and Middle School

1. Celebrating Our Constitution

2. Investigating Historical Objects and Pictures

3. Tasting

4. A Tale of a Whale

5. The Art of Social Studies/The Social Studies in Art

6. Assembly-Line Lunches

7. The History Kids

8. Who Would You Help?

9. Exploring Diversity Through Technology

10. When They "Just Don't Get It"

Part II. High School

11. Putting the "Social" Back Into Social Studies

12. A Social Studies Twist on the "Hemingway Challenge"

13. World War II Memories

14. Life-Changing Field Trips

15. Crafting Individualized Research Projects

16. Promoting Citizenship

17. Reflections From a High School History Teacher

Index

Reviews

Quote by Lindy G. Poling, Social Studies Department Chair, Millbrook High School, Raleigh, NC: "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."
"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, Social Studies Department Chair
Millbrook High School, Raleigh, NC
Quote by Heather E. Robinson, Fifth-Grade Teacher, Desert Canyon Elementary School, Scottsdale, AZ: "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."
"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, Fifth-Grade Teacher
Desert Canyon Elementary School, Scottsdale, AZ

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