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Are you looking for a resource that will provide you with practical, yet proven, social studies strategies to use with children in grades K-8? Look no further, explore the new edition of Teaching and Learning Elementary Social Studies to find a wealth of lesson plans and practical guidance. This perennial best-seller provides instructional strategies for involving K-8 children in social studies content that emphasize concepts, inquiry, and moral development. Widely admired for its warm voice and abundance of children’s art and writing, this text integrates constructivist philosophies of active learning with the essential knowledge, basic skills, and positive values required of citizens in a healthy and diverse democracy.
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Are you looking for a practical elementary social studies methods text that provides a strong balance between the theory and effective practice? Take a moment to explore the ninth edition of Teaching and Learning Elementary Social Studies today. This well-respected textexplains, illustrates, and encourages developmentally appropriate practice while promoting engaged, exploratory learning and reflection. A host of practical lessons are found throughout the book, as examples and launching points for effective social studies teaching. A central purpose of the book is to address and nurture the strategies and tactics necessary to achieving the social studies goals of participatory citizenship, knowledge of our world, self-realization and regulation, and social and moral growth.
More than in any previous edition, Art Ellis prepares you for the realities of teaching social studies today!
- New coverage of the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) Standards as well as the knowledge base children should have.
- Additional lessons and activities have been added throughout and all are now linked directly to the NCSS Standards.
- Additional insights from such theorists as Jerome Bruner, Jean Piaget, Lev Vygotsky, John Dewy, and more.
- New and additional coverage of the idea of children as researchers, interdisciplinary teaching and learning, connections to literature, and citizenship education.
- New coverage of teaching and learning strategies, children as makers and readers of maps, and literacy including electronic/media/information literacy.
- New/Updated content on character education, moral development, and service learning.
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This text offers a blend of traditional theory with new technology and current social issues, giving a wide view of teaching social studies. Recent issues encompassed here are multiple intelligences, the California History-Social Science Framework, children as researchers and more.
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