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Elementary Social Studies: A Practical Guide, 7th Edition by June R. Chapin, Notre Dame de Namur University

Table of Contents

Preface

 

1. THE ELEMENTARY SOCIAL STUDIES CURRICULUM

Images of the Social Studies

- Small Group Work: What Works Best?

- Small Group Work: How Important Is Social Studies to You?

What Are the Goals of Social Studies?

- What Is Social Studies?

- More Emphasis on History

- On Your Own: Should It Be Social Studies or History, Civics, Geography?

- Your Choice

- On Your Own: Compare the Approaches

What Should be Taught?   State Standards and “No Child Left Behind.”

- National Standards

- State Standards

- Changing States’ Role and NCLB

- On Your Own: What Is Your Reaction to State Social Studies Standards?       

Should Values and Character Education be Taught?

- Role Model

- Values

- Character Education

- Your Decision on Values

- On Your Own: What Are the Sources of Your Values?

What Are the National Curriculum Patterns?

- On Your Own:  Your State Curriculum

Why Are Textbooks Important?

- On Your Own: Compare the Texts: Identify Differences

- Scope and Sequence

- Small Group Work: Check Were You Stand

Summary

Suggested Readings and Web Sites

 

2. PLANNING for SOCIAL STUDIES INSTRUCTION

Planning

- Small Group Work: Your Concept of Planning

- Busy Teachers

- Value of Written Lesson Plans

- The Reflective Teacher

- Getting Started: Locating Resources

- On Your Own: Issues that Affect Social Studies Planning

Goals, Long-Range Planning, and Standards/Instructional Objectives

- Long-Range Planning

- The Textbook

- Content, Standards, and Instructional Objectives

- On Your Own: Facilitate Child-Focus Planning

- Instructional Cycle

Treasury of Resources and Technology for Planning

- Student, Parent and Family Resources

- Community Resources

- Media Resources

- Current Events/Current Affairs

Units

- Textbook Units

- Commercial Units

- Teacher-Made Units

- Other Teacher-Made Units

Integrated Curriculum/Interdisciplinary Thematic Units

- Designing Integrated Units

- Small Group Work: Identify Academic Disciplines and Skills in Grasslands

- Two Units on Hawaii

- Critiquing the Two Units

- Travel Day

- Elements in a Unit

- On Your Own: What Are the Strengths of These Activities?

Lesson Plans

- Planning for the Inclusive Classroom/Adaptations

- Tips for Writing Lesson Plans

- Small Group Work: Locating Interesting Lesson Plans

- Organizing and Scheduling

- Summary

- Suggested Readings and Web Sites

 

3. INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES

Different Methods

- Learning Styles

- Example of Using a Wide Variety of Methods

What Happens in Real Classrooms?

- Teacher’s Decisions

- On Your Own: Finding Your Style

Direct Teaching: From Passive to Active Learning

- Correcting the Faults of “Talking All the Time.”

- Teaching a Concept: Organizations

- Evaluating Direct Teaching

- Small Group Work: When to Use Direct Teaching

Problem-Based Learning and Thinking

- Formal Steps in Thinking or Inquiry

- Defining the Problem

- Generating Ideas

- Small Group Work: Take the Student Role

- Gathering Data

- Evaluating Data

- Practice Information Activities

- Accepting or Rejecting a Hypothesis

- On Your Own: Just the Facts

Inductive Thinking and Questioning

- Inductive Thinking

- Questioning

Cooperative or Collaborative Learning

- Importance of Small Discussion Skills

- Definitions of Cooperative Learning

- Decisions for Cooperative Learning

- Size of the Group

- Roles

- Room Arrangement

- Jigsaw

- Other Problem Areas

- Small Group Work: Trying Out Small Group Activities

Role Playing

- Small Group Work: Try a Role Play

Simulations

- On Your Own: Research by Doing

Summary

Suggested Readings and Web Sites

 

4. USING MULTIPLE ASSESSMENTS TO EVALUATE STUDENTS’ LEARNING IN THE SOCIAL STUDIES

Perceptions of Testing

- Definitions

- The Student

- The Parent or Guardian

- The Teacher

- Administrators

- The Community and the State

- Measurement and Evaluation Experts

- Small Group Work: Accountability

Federal And State Roles in Testing

- Federal Role

- National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)

- State Testing

- Types of State Tests

- Teachers Need to Research Their State Tests

- Small Group Work: What Are the Effects of State Testing?

Performance-Based Assessment

- Portfolios

- Small Group Work: What Are Your Experiences with Portfolios?

- Essays

- Examples of Essay Questions

- Scoring

- Outside Assessors

- Written Assessment Tasks

- Short-Constructed Response Questions

- Small Group Work: Your Reaction to “My Famous Place in History.”

Summary

Paper and Pencil Tests

- Short Answer

- Matching

- True-False or Binary-Choice Items

- Selected Response or Multiple Choice Questions

- Diagnosis and Corrective Reteaching

Informal Evaluations

- Students Answering Questions

- Keep Anecdotal Note Cards on Student Behavior?

- “Catching” Observation Data

- Glancing at Student Work on the Fly: Assessing the Attainment of a Concept

- Self-Evaluation

Conferences, Grades and Report Cards

- Conferences

- Grades and Report Cards

- Small Group Work: Tell the “Truth”

Summary

Suggested Readings and Web Sites

 

5. AIDING OUR STUDENTS TO INTERPRET HISTORY

Central Place of History in the Social Studies Curriculum    

- On Your Own: What Do You Think?

- What about History in the Primary Grades

- The Holiday Curriculum

- Primary History Standards

- Small Group Work: Your Reaction?

- Small Group Work: Controversial Issues for the First Grade?

History Wars

- National History Standards

- Small Group Work: Dull Elementary History Texts?

- NAEP History Results

History Definitions and Issues

- Definitions

- Students’ Prior Knowledge

- Coverage versus depth

- Drama

Learning about Time and Chronology

- Timelines

- Linking History and Trade Books

- Using Trade Books and Magazines

- Books Used for a History Theme

- Using Biographies

During History or Being an Historian

- Oral History

- Analysis of Data

- On Your Own: Worth the Work?

- Studying Local History

- Historical Objects

Primary and Secondary Sources

- Artifacts

- Using Sources in the Upper Grades

The Promise of the Internet

Summary

Suggested Readings and Web Sites

 

6. TEACHING GEOGRAPHY

Are Students and Adults Geographic Literate?

- Importance of Geography

- Geography Standards

- State Standards

- Local Geography in K-8 Curriculum

- Using Multiple Standards

- NAEP 2001 Geography Results

- National Geographic-Roper 2002 Global Geographic Literacy Survey          

- On Your Own: Teaching Your Own: Teaching Your Geography State Standards

Beyond State Capitals: Making Geography Engaging

- Start with the Students

- Trade Books

- Controversial Issues

Teaching Map and Globe Skills

- Ability Levels

- Field Trips

- The Local and Beyond the Local

- Specific Map Skills

- Understanding a Wide Variety of Maps

- Mapmaking

- Summary on Map Skills

 

Summary.

Suggested Readings and Web Sites.

 

7. TEACHING ECONOMICS

Economic Standards

- Importance of Economics

- National Economic Standards

- State Standards

- Rationale for Teaching Economics

- Different Interpretations

- Children and Economics

- Small Group Work: Should We Be Teaching about Mortgages?

Strategies for Teaching Economics

Teaching about Costs and Benefits at the Primary Level

- Teaching about Production and Exchange

- Small Group Work: How Did You Learn about Economic Concepts?

- General Methods for Economics in the Fourth to Eighth Grades

- History as the Background for Economics

- Skits, Dramatic Reenactments and Simulations

- Small Group Work: Economic Reasoning

- World of Work

- Consumer Education

Small Group Work: The Role of the World of Work and Consumer Education

Summary

Suggested Readings and Websites

 

8. TEACHING CIVIC EDUCATION

Civic Education

- Improvement?

- Teaching Patriotism

- Small Group Work: Your Choice

Classroom Civic Education

- Rules

- A Caring Classroom

- Small Group Work: Class Cooperative Planning

- Conflict Resolution

- Small Group Work: Bullying

Instruction in Civic Education

- Standards for Civic Education

- Formal Instruction

- Current Events/Current Affairs Programs

- On Your Own: When Is It Appropriate to Share Images?  When Better to Shield Children?

- Teaching Controversial Events

- Small Group Work: Viewpoints on Controversial Issues

- Values in the Classroom for Civic Education

- Civic Education in Schools

Linking School-wide Citizenship to the Community

- Service Learning or Community Participation

- Implementing Service Learning

- Small Group Work: Links to the Community

Teaching Global Education

- Three Themes of a Universal Curriculum

- Human Rights: Refugees and Gender Issues

- Environmental/Ecological Problems

- Small Group Work: Interest Level

Summary

Suggested Readings and Web Sites

 

9. HELPING ALL OUR DIVERSE STUDENTS

Growing Diversity

- Definitions

- Small Group Work: Know Yourself

- Know Your Class

- On Your Own: Personal Life?

- Learning about Yourself

Gender

- Academic Differences

- Females

- On Your Own: Still Sexism?

- Males

- Small Group Work: Do Boys Need More Attention?

- Name-Calling

- Small Group Work: What Should be Done?

Multicultural Education

- Multicultural Teaching

- Other Strategies for Teaching Multicultural Education

- Small Group Work: Your Role in Multicultural Education

Teaching Religion

Teacher’s Role

Exceptionalities

- The Gifted

- Other Forms of Exceptionalities

- Suggestions for Teaching

Differentiated Instruction

- Small Group Work: Differentiated Classroom?

Summary

Suggested Readings and Web Sites

 

10. LINKING SOCIAL STUDIES AND LITERACY

Linking Social Studies and Literacy

- Typical Social studies Instructional Activities

- On Your Own: Worksheets?

Meeting the Needs of English Language Learners

- Growing Numbers

- Essential Skills

- First Step: Making Ells (and everyone else) Welcome

- Getting Materials

- Sheltered English or SDAIE Strategies

- Machine-Language Software and Media

- Assessments

- Small Group Work: Actual Practice

Reading

- Pre-reading or Engagement

- The Text Structure or Approach

- Post-Reading Activities

- Small Group Work: Motivation

Listening and Writing

- Listening

- Writing

- Written Assessment Tasks

- Hints on Informal Writing Assignments

- Reports

- Small Group Work: Reports

- Summary

Suggested Readings and Web Sites

Solution : Elementary Social Studies: A Practical Guide, 7th Edition Test Book , June R. Chapin, Notre Dame de Namur University