Teaching Eelementary Social Studies

Today, social studies teachers are facing more diversity in content, pedagogy, and student populations than ever before. With diversity as its central theme, and thirty-six detailed vignettes, lesson plans, and unit plans, the fourth edition of Teaching Elementary Social Studies prepares prospective teachers to meet challenges in all areas of diversity, sensitively and effectively. New to the Fourth Edition: Two new chapters on literacy and social studies teaching and teaching geography; New coverage of "Backward Design", service learning, planning successful field trips, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS); Earlier coverage of unit planning, lesson planning, and assessment; A new discussion of 21st Century Skills focuses on joint effort of the National Council for the Social Studies and the Partnership for 21st Century Skills; Throughout the text, 40 new teaching ideas with computer-based resources show how students can use web-based information and produce digital products; Fifty new children's books are cited and many new, excellent works of juvenile literature are integrated into the text. Updated with the most current information including 100 new professional references. - Publisher.