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A Link To The Past: Engaging Students In The Study Of HistoryMichael M. Yell, Geoffrey Scheurman, with Keith Reynolds NCSS Bulletin 102, 93 pp., 2004 Teachers will benefit from these powerful, tried and tested strategies for getting students involved in the study of history. The authors offer tips for all stages of a history unit: introducing the topic; involving students in discussion; enhancing writing and reading skills; teaching big ideas; and organizing and evaluating effective projects. The book offers useful lesson plans and a selection of valu ... MoreBuilding a Legacy: Women in Social Education 1784-1984Edited by Margaret Smith Crocco and O.L. Davis, Jr. NCSS, Bulletin No. 100, 162 pp. 2002 Women constitute the majority of K-12 social studies teachers, but historians have often neglected or underemphasized the importance of their role in the development of social studies. This volume shows how women have built a legacy in shaping social education, as seen through the biographies of more than forty women over a 200-year period. ... MoreBuilding Bridges: Connecting Classrooms and Comunity Through Service LearningBuilding Bridges: Connecting Classroom and Community Through Service-Learning in Social Studies Edited by Rahima C. Wade NCSS, Bulletin No. 97, 116 pp. 2000 This book, which offers teaching suggestions at the elementary, middle, and high school levels, features a very diverse array of service-learning projects. Topics include AIDS awareness, community planning, shelters for the homeless, and marine environmental activism. ... MoreCommunity Action Rooted in HistoryCommunity Action Rooted in History: The CiviConnections Model of Service-Learning Edited by Rahima C. Wade NCSS Bulletin No.106, 78 pp. 2007 This book chronicles exciting projects in which teachers have linked the study of history to service learning initiatives. The result has been to energize students and enable them to improvetheir local communities through their service learning projects at the same time as they have investigated the local and historical roots of social or environmental p ... MoreCooperative Learning in the Social Studies ClassroomEdited by Robert J. Stahl, Ronald L. VanSickle and Nancy N. Stahl NCSS Bulletin No. 108, 130pp. 2009 This volume will help the reader reflect upon the gains that students and social studies educators can make by rejecting many of the old myths surrounding the value of competitive and rugged individualism and replacing these with a cooperative perspective on learning. What can we gain by having students work cooperatively in small groups rather than spending much of their time doing their acade ... MoreDigital Age: Technology-Based K-12 Lesson Plans for Social StudiesEdited by Linda Bennett and Michael J. Berson NCSS Bulletin 105, 200 pp. 2007 This is an indispensable book for social studies educators at all grade levels. Its lesson plans are based on the NCSS Social Studies Standards and the National Educational Technology Standards and present some of the best uses of instructional technology to teach the range of social studies subjects at each of the elementary, middle school and high school levels. Whether your interest is U.S. history or contempora ... MoreFavorite Lesson Plans: Powerful Standards-Based ActivitiesEdited by William W. Wilen NCSS, 100 pp. 2000 In this volume outstanding teachers share some of their favorite and most effective lesson plans. The topics of this book cover the range of social studies disciplines and standards themes. Its contents deal with images of the West, Native American culture, slavery and attempts to escape it, controversial issues, global economic decision-making, unions and collective bargaining, and more. ... MoreLinking Literature with LifeLinking Literature with Life: The NCSS Standards and Children's Literature in the Middle Grades. Alexa A. Sandmann and John F. Ahern NCSS, Bulletin No. 99, 142 pp. 2002 This book was written by two experienced educators for teachers in search of children's literature that conforms to the social studies standards and that students in grades 5-8 really like. After initial chapters that offer guidelines for using children's literature in the social studies classroom, the authors present ten cha ... MoreMaking a Difference: Revitalizing Elementary Social StudiesEdited by Margit E. McGuire and Bronwyn Cole NCSS Bulletin 109, 87 pp., 2010 This teacher-friendly book will be a welcome resource for all committed to the revitalization of social studies in elementary schools in the face of great pressures to reduce the time given to social studies subjects. The contributors advocate a vision of social studies that engages students, incorporates best classroom practices, and results in demonstrable educational accomplishments. One of the principal thrusts o ... More |
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