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Product Description: Now in its fifth edition, Doing History offers a unique perspective on teaching and learning history in the elementary and middle grades. Through case studies of teachers and students in diverse classrooms and from diverse backgrounds, it shows children engaging in authentic historical investigations, often in the context of an integrated social studies curriculum...read more

Social Studies for the Twenty-First Century, Second Edition offers practical, interesting, and exciting ways to teach social studies. Its reflective and integrative framework emphasizes building imagination, insight, and critical thinking into everyday secondary classrooms. Like the popular first edition, this thoroughly revised and updated edition offers an overall framework to guide teachers in setting objectives, devising lessons, and choosing classroom strategies, as well as assistance in constructing tests, and planning lessons, units, and courses for some of the field's most popular and enduring programs. Throughout the text, all aspects of curriculum and instruction are viewed from a tripartite perspective that divides social studies instruction into didactic (factual), reflective (analytical), and affective (judgmental) components. These three components are seen as supporting one another rather than acting in opposition. At the center of this text is the author's belief that the heart and soul of social studies instruction, perhaps all teaching, lies in stimulating the production of ideas; looking at knowledge from others' viewpoints; and formulating for oneself a set of goals, values, and beliefs that can be explained and justified in open discussion. Features of the text: * weaves theory, curriculum, methods, and assessment into a comprehensive model for social studies instruction, * offers a practical, hands-on approach to lesson planning and curriculum design that features data, documents, and visuals teachers can try out with their students, * encourages problem-solving attitudes and behavior and provokes analysis, critical thinking, reflection, and debate, * uses a personal approach to teaching in a reflective framework, with a minimum of educational jargon and polemicizing, and * includes separate chapters on teaching each of the major areas of the social studies curriculum. New in the second edition: * two completely new chapters on using all sorts of media--from print and photography to computer games and the World Wide Web--to supplement and enrich the social studies classroom, * new material in the chapter on evaluation on using authentic assessment and student portfolios, * discussion of the standards movement, with examples from major new guidelines, and * new examples and response 'boxes' throughout and an extensive, updated, and reorganized bibliography of agencies and resources for the social studies, including internet and e-mail addresses where available.

Product Description: Firsthand sources are brought together to illuminate the diversity of American history in a unique way―by sharing the perspectives of people of color who participated in landmark events.• Highlights the history and experience of people of color in the United States through 450 important documents and firsthand accounts• Introduces readers to multiple viewpoints about landmark events• Provides a unique and helpful "Guide to Why and How to Use Primary Documents...read more

Product Description: Now in its 4th edition, this popular text for secondary social studies methods courses integrates discussions of educational goals and the nature of history and social studies with ideas for organizing social studies curricula, units, lessons, projects, and activities...read more

Product Description: Comprehensive Common Core curriculum for United States History, Grades 3-5 The Alexandria Plan is Common Core's curriculum tool for the teaching of United States and World History. It is a strategic framework for identifying and using high quality informational texts and narrative nonfiction to meet the expectations of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English Language Arts (ELA) while also sharing essential historical knowledge drawn from the very best state history and civics standards from around the country...read more

Product Description: Comprehensive Common Core curriculum for World History, Grades 3-5 The Alexandria Plan is Common Core's curriculum tool for the teaching of United States and World History. It is a strategic framework for identifying and using high quality informational texts and narrative nonfiction to meet the expectations of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English Language Arts (ELA) while also sharing essential historical knowledge drawn from the very best state history and civics standards from around the country...read more

Product Description: During the first decade of the 21st century the Catholic Church in the developed world has faced a decline in its moral authority, increasing accusations of irrelevance to a secular age, and a steep and steady decline in commitment among successive generations from the 1960s on...read more

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Product Description: Strategic Electronic Marketing takes a systems and relationships approach to exploring e-business marketing. This text addresses the basic principles that underlie marketing and how e-business marketing techniques will fundamentally change the traditional marketing process...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)