Super Social Studies


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Jam-packed with classroom-tested, hands-on activities such as wondercircles, fan-fold books, paper-chain timelines, and more mapping and report writing ideas!







The Best-ever Web Sites for the Topics You Teach


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Includes great web sites for science, social studies, language arts, math, and more.




Teaching Social Studies Today


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Featuring sound educational strategies based on solid research and proven methodology, this exceptional resource provides teachers with best practices in social studies instruction that can be immediately implemented in the classroom. Authored by two social studies experts with more than 60 years combined classroom experience, this resource is designed for anyone who is interested in current educational theory and best practice. Packed with various teaching methods and techniques, up-to-date research-based theory and practical applications, this book is great for new and experienced teachers. This resource is aligned to the interdisciplinary themes from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills. 200 pp.




180 Days™: Social Studies for Fourth Grade


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180 Days of Social Studies is a fun and effective daily practice workbook designed to help students build social studies content knowledge. This easy-to-use fourth grade workbook is great for at-home learning or in the classroom. The engaging standards-based activities cover grade-level skills with easy to follow instructions and an answer key to quickly assess student understanding. Each week students explore a new topic focusing on one of the four social studies disciplines: history, civics, geography, and economics. Watch studentÂ’s confidence soar as they build analytic skills with these quick independent learning activities.Parents appreciate the teacher-approved activity books that keep their child engaged and learning. Great for homeschooling, to reinforce learning at school, or prevent learning loss over summer.Teachers rely on the daily practice workbooks to save them valuable time. The ready to implement activities are perfect for daily morning review or homework. The activities can also be used for intervention skill building to address learning gaps. Supports the C3 Framework and aligns to the NCSS curriculum standards.




Social Studies for the Elementary and Middle Grades


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Discusses flexible strategies for teaching today's diverse learner the structure of the knowledge to be learned, how to help students reconstruct and present ideas, and how to translate theory and recent research into lesson plans and units. All within a constructivist framework! September 9 2013 - Ingrid Robinson took this book off the CRC shelf and asked that it be added to the Reserve Books Shelf.




Social Studies Teaching Activities Books


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An annotated listing of activities books for use with social studies curriculums, focusing on elementary and middle school grades, arranged by curriculum area, topic, and grade level. Includes contact information for publishers and distributors of appropriate books, and an index.







180 Days of Social Studies for Sixth Grade


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Supplement your social studies curriculum with 180 days of daily practice! This essential classroom resource provides teachers with weekly social studies units that build students' content-area literacy, and are easy to incorporate into the classroom. Students will analyze primary sources, answer text-dependent questions, and improve their grade-level social studies knowledge. Each week covers a particular topic within one of the four social studies disciplines: history, economics, civics, and geography. Aligned to the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and state standards, this social studies workbook includes digital materials.




Read-Aloud Plays: Explorers


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Bring history to life with these five exciting read-aloud plays. You'll find a play, background information, activities, and writing and discussion prompts on five explorers who helped shape our history: Christopher Columbus, Leif Eriksson, Cabeza de Vaca, Hernando de Soto, and Sieur de La Salle. The plays are perfect for struggling readers. For use with Grades 4-8.