Barnes & Noble Making Time for social Studies: A Four-Step Process Unit Planning the Elementary Classroom (Implement engaging studies units.) at Hamilton Place in Chattanooga, TN
Elementary teachers often struggle to make time to teach social studies. In her book, Rachel Swearengin shows how this can be done in all elementary classrooms with the right tools. Her unit planning process supports teachers as they unpack social studies standards, providing them with strategies and practices specific to social studies that promote students' participation and lasting interest.Grades K-5 teachers can use this book to: Apply the claim-evidence-reasoning (CER) approach to their assessments Employ key practices to ensure an enduring understanding of social studies standards Learn primary source analysis strategies to use with students Receive completed sample and planning templates for the K-2 and 3-5 grades Create their own social studies units and daily lesson plans using their completed planning templates Select grade-appropriate primary and secondary sources and understand the use of each Contents:IntroductionChapter 1: Step 1-Unpacking Social Studies StandardsChapter 2: Step 2-Creating AssessmentsChapter 3: Step 3-Choosing and Analyzing Primary SourcesChapter 4: Step 4-Choosing and Analyzing Secondary SourcesChapter 5: Turning Your Unit Into Daily Lesson PlansEpilogueAppendix AAppendix BReferences and ResourcesIndex
Elementary teachers often struggle to make time to teach social studies. In her book, Rachel Swearengin shows how this can be done in all elementary classrooms with the right tools. Her unit planning process supports teachers as they unpack social studies standards, providing them with strategies and practices specific to social studies that promote students' participation and lasting interest.Grades K-5 teachers can use this book to: Apply the claim-evidence-reasoning (CER) approach to their assessments Employ key practices to ensure an enduring understanding of social studies standards Learn primary source analysis strategies to use with students Receive completed sample and planning templates for the K-2 and 3-5 grades Create their own social studies units and daily lesson plans using their completed planning templates Select grade-appropriate primary and secondary sources and understand the use of each Contents:IntroductionChapter 1: Step 1-Unpacking Social Studies StandardsChapter 2: Step 2-Creating AssessmentsChapter 3: Step 3-Choosing and Analyzing Primary SourcesChapter 4: Step 4-Choosing and Analyzing Secondary SourcesChapter 5: Turning Your Unit Into Daily Lesson PlansEpilogueAppendix AAppendix BReferences and ResourcesIndex
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