People, Places, Checkmates : Teaching Social Studies with Chess

Root, Alexey W.

ISBN 10: 1591588502 / ISBN 13: 9781591588504

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2010

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Synopsis:

Fifteen chess-enhanced lesson plans address National Council for the Social Studies standards for grades 4–8 and help prepare students to succeed in University Interscholastic League (UIL) Chess Puzzle.

Implement the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) curriculum standards in your classroom with People, Places, Checkmates: Teaching Social Studies with Chess. In this unique volume, 15 lesson plans teach culture, history, geography, and citizenship through the history of chess and its relationship to art, civics, culture, economics, geography, government, and technology. This book will also help educators and librarians prepare students to succeed in University Interscholastic League (UIL) Chess Puzzle.

Each 40-minute lesson plan includes an NCSS theme, materials and sources, procedure, and evaluation. Each lesson is followed by an optional 10-25 minute chess exercise, composed of teacher background, procedure and materials, expected time, and evaluation. A separate chapter teaches the chess basics necessary for your students to actually play chess and successfully complete the optional exercises. Lesson plans complement upper elementary and middle school curricula in world history, U.S. history, geography, and social studies.

• 25 reproducibles, such as letters home to parents and worksheets
• 15 photographs of famous chess players and of students playing chess
• 28 chess diagrams and 7 examples of student work
• A chronology of chess from ancient times to the present
• A glossary of 90 chess terms from past and present, such as chatrang and en passant

About the Author: Alexey W. Root has a Ph.D. in education from UCLA. Her work history includes public high school teaching (social studies and English). Her most notable chess accomplishment was winning the U.S. Women's championship in 1989. Since the fall of 1999, Root has been a senior lecturer at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). She has taught UTD education classes, tutored prospective teachers for certification exams, and supervised student teachers. Root's current assignment for UTD is to teach, via the UT TeleCampus, online education courses that explore the uses of chess in classrooms. Children and Chess: A Guide for Educators (2006) and Science, Math, Checkmate: 32 Chess Activities for Inquiry and Problem Solving (2008) were both published by Teacher Ideas Press.

Bibliographic Details

Title: People, Places, Checkmates : Teaching Social...
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good