
Notable Books, Notable Lessons
Putting Social Studies Back in the K-8 Curriculum
- 242 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Notable Books, Notable Lessons
Putting Social Studies Back in the K-8 Curriculum
About this book
This book provides teachers, librarians, and education methods professors with strategies, lesson plans, and activities that enable them to use literature as a springboard to social studies thematic instruction. With the amount of time and resources allocated to teaching social studies being significantly reduced, social studies lessons need to be incorporated into other subjects. Notable Books, Notable Lessons: Putting Social Studies Back in the K–8 Curriculum offers the tools to teach students social studies concepts that are increasingly relevant and essential in today's diverse, globalized world—lessons that are vital in order to prepare students to think critically and participate in our multicultural democracy. Providing information that elementary and middle school teachers and librarians, district-level curriculum directors and principals, staff developers, and social studies and literacy methods professors will find extremely useful, this book uses the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS)/Children's Book Council (CBC)'s current and past lists of Notable Books at the elementary and middle school levels to offer easy-to-follow lesson plans that integrate social studies instruction with reading and language arts. The lesson plans pose compelling questions to facilitate discussion and critical thinking and suggest engaging activities that are connected to the social studies concepts. The book also includes sample student handouts for the selected pieces of literature.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Culture
- 3 Time, Continuity, and Change
- 4 People, Places, and Environments
- 5 Individual Development and Identity
- 6 Individuals, Groups, and Institutions
- 7 Power, Authority, and Governance
- 8 Production, Distribution, and Consumption
- 9 Science, Technology, and Society
- 10 Global Connections
- 11 Civic Ideals and Practices
- 12 Conclusion
- Bibliography of Notable Books Spotlighted in Each Chapter
- Index
- About the Author