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Social Studies for the Elementary and Middle Grades: a Constructivist Approach + Myeducationlab - Couverture souple
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Social Studies for the Elementary and Middle Grades discusses flexible strategies for teaching today's diverse learner, the structure of the knowledge to be learned, how to help students reconstruct present ideas, and how to translate theory and recent research into lesson plans and units. All within a constructivist framework!
What's NEW in the second edition?
- “Building on Diversity” boxes identify important diversity issues and their impact within the social studies curriculum and discuss how to address those issues throughout instruction.
- The discussion on teaching meaningful social studies to all students has been expanded to consider culture and cultural diversity in more depth, to consider the needs of special education identified students in more depth, and to consider English Language Learners.
- “Making a Literature Connection” boxes instruct students on how to select and integrate children's literature into their social studies teaching program.
- NCSS icons appear throughout the book margin, prompting students to note content with specific relevance to the 10 major themes identified in the NCSS National Standards for Social Studies Teachers document.
- “Using Technology” boxes have been added to each chapter to highlight the use and application of an aspect of technology in social studies teaching. In addition, Recommended Websites have been added to the end of every chapter.
- Companion Website icons connect the text content with a rich array of related resources found on the companion website for the book (http://www.ablongman.com/sunal2e).
- “Expanding on this Chapter” sections appear at the end of each chapter to apply the main ideas of each chapter to related contexts, thereby promoting a deeper understanding of the subject matter.
About the Authors
Cynthia Szymanski Sunal is Professor of Social Studies Education at The University of Alabama in the Department of Elementary Education Programs. She taught social studies at the early childhood, elementary, and middle school levels in several states and overseas. Her research focuses on constructivist teaching and on facilitating students' use of evidence as they carry out social studies investigations. She has authored numerous journal articles, chapters, and books on social studies education.
Mary Elizabeth Haas is Professor of Social Studies in the Department of Educational Theory and Practice at West Virginia University. She taught social studies in grades 7, 8, and 9 in Indiana and social studies methods at universities in Arkansas and Mississippi. Her research concentrates on the teaching of social studies content, particularly geography, political science, and history. She has published extensively and collaborated with Dr. Sunal on four books in social studies education. She is currently serving as a senior editor for the NCSS journal Social Education.
“I like the way that the book is organized. It provides a foundation for pre-service and in-service teachers' pedagogical instruction in the form of unit and lesson plan ideas and practice. I also like the topics that are covered in the book. I feel that it provides a comprehensive source of information for the elementary or middle school teacher who uses it.”
—Mary Ann Maslak, St. John's University
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“The textbook serves my students well with its emphasis on inquiry, concept development, and attention to the various social studies disciplines. Activities discussed and illustrated, show how teachers and their students can make use of local (and free or inexpensive) resources for teaching social studies.”
–Becky J. Widener, Columbia College
Building on the success of previous editions, Social Studies for the Elementary and Middle Grades provides the structure of the knowledge to be learned, strategies to help students attain more control of their own learning, and models for translating theory and recent research into lesson plans and units for teaching 21st century diverse learners. Not only does the text guide pre-service teachers to teach social studies within a constructivist framework, but it also models that framework of guided inquiry in the organization of each chapter. Every chapter begins with an exploratory activity that challenges students to remember and reflect on their prior knowledge on the chapter's topic, moves into the more teacher-guided phase where students find explanations and activities that develop their understanding and social studies pedagogical content knowledge (PCK), and ends in an expansion phase in which students must apply the main ideas of the chapter to other school and life contexts.
New To This Edition
- New 2-color design highlights important features for students: Learning Cycle Lesson Plans, “Building on Diversity”, “Making a Literature Connection”, and “Using Technology” boxes.
- New Learning Cycle Lesson Plans appropriate for a range of elementary and middle school classrooms have been added to the text (and others moved to the Companion Website) to provide students with a greater selection of fresh ideas for social studies teaching.
- A chapter on assessment has been moved up earlier in the text to complement the focus on assessment throughout all of the chapters. In addition, Learning Cycle Lesson Plans identify the use of formative assessment and summative evaluation.
- A continuum representing the amount of student control over learning identifies where the various instructional strategies fall in terms fostering student-centered education.
- “What You Will Find on the Companion Website” has been added to the end of chapter as a guide to the resources provided on this book’s Companion Website.
- Application activities to do in class and in the field now appear in the “Expanding on This Chapter” section at the end of each chapter.
- Reference to NCSS standards or “thematic strands” highlighted by marginal icons.
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