Product Description: We, the Students and Teachers shows history and social studies educators how to make school classrooms into democratic spaces for teaching and learning. The book offers practical strategies and lesson ideas for transforming democratic theory into instructional practice...read more

Product Description: Elementary social studies, which seeks to instill in children the principles of democratic citizenship and the core values of social responsibility, has an important responsibility in U.S. classrooms. Yet, to achieve these goals, elementary social studies must overcome a number of challenges...read more

Product Description: Paula Cowan and Henry Maitles provide a thorough exploration of current debates and controversies relating to teaching controversial issues in primary and secondary schools. They also investigate the changing nature of this type of learning experience and explore its contribution to the curriculum, particularly history and citizenship education...read more

Product Description: Differentiating Instruction With Menus for the Inclusive Classroom: Social Studies for grades 3–5 offers teachers who have multiple ability levels in one classroom everything they need to create a student-centered learning environment based on appropriate choice...read more

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Product Description: Hardcover HOUGHTON MIFFLIN Social Studies UNITED STATES HISTORY student textbook.

Product Description: Introduce your students to these amazing biographies with creative strategies to teach literacy skills and address the multiple intelligences in any classroom. Activities such as creating a time line, drawing a mural, writing a biography, and acting out a scene from history allow students to engage with the biographies of some of the worlds most influential leaders of the past century...read more

Product Description: Climb aboard a time capsule for a trip around the globe and explore 15 different social studies texts with topics ranging from Mesopotamian empires to the Incas. Leveled Texts for Social Studies: World Cultures Through Time is an award-winning resource designed to help all students comprehend important historical people and events through high-interest social studies material written at four different reading levels ranging from 1...read more

Product Description: Book by HOUGHTON MIFFLIN

This text frames and develops a coherent, practical, and engaging approach to teaching and learning elementary social studies. The authors combine the latest research on learning patterns, curriculum structure and presentation, and assessment with practical issues like classroom management, goal establishment, and creative lesson planning. Elementary Social Studies is organized according to four commonplaces of education--learners and learning, subject matter, teachers and teaching, and classroom environment--to help teachers create a powerful learning environment for their students. The Second Edition includes additional emphasis on issues of multiculturalism and diversity and teaching in the lower primary grades.