Heinemann / ISBN 0-435-08907-2 / 978-0-435-08907-8 / 1997 / 224 pp / paperback
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This title is recommended for:

• Teaching Social Studies--Elementary

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Faced with recent state and national mandates, many veteran social studies teachers are now required to explore new content and achieve new goals—often without any guidance. New teachers are at an even greater disadvantage, wondering what exactly they are supposed to teach and how to go about it. In Ways That Work, Tarry Lindquist provides some answers.

Ways That Work is an idea book from start to finish, modeling several different ways social studies content can be organized in elementary and middle school classrooms. Each chapter:

• identifies a specific standard and a goal
• presents strategies to help you achieve the goal
• outlines how to put the strategies into place
• describes essential skills you can develop
• suggests ways you can incorporate other subject areas, especially language arts and literature
• presents proven assessment techniques
• concludes with a detailed bibliography of student books and references.

Together, the chapters illustrate that there is no one way to teach social studies—that the magic of teaching social studies lies in the richness of the available content, the variety of strategies to choose from, and the diversity of viewpoints to explore. The value of Ways That Work increases as you make the strategies your own. Both preservice and inservice teachers will find it a source of fresh ideas for their classrooms.

Table of Contents

Contents:


1. By the Book: Learning History Beyond the Text
   Standards: Time, continuity, and change
   Strategies: Walking in Their Shoes interviews and video books, human opinion continuum, and cooperative units
2. A Place at the Table: Investigating Global Issues in a Day
   Standard: Global Connections
   Strategies: Wondershape, opinion poll, accordion book
3. Across the United States: Creating a Collegial Classroom Community
   Standards: People, places, and environments
   Strategies: Little books of alliteration, storyboards, pictorial maps, posters, research writing, mock governor's speeches, parade of states, states fair
4. Trade Fair: Orchestrating a One-Period Peak Experience
   Standards: Production, distribution, and consumption
   Strategies: Simulation, quartiles
5. Cooperative Biographies: Focusing on Reading, Research, Writing, and Responsibility
   Standards: Individual development and identity
   Strategies: Cooperative biographies, fact flip board
6. Bridges to Other Cultures: Infusing Cultural Studies Across the Curriculum
   Standard: Culture
   Strategies: Chinese shadow puppets, Japanese story cards (kamishibai), Native American time ball
7. Constitutional Visions: Connecting the Constitution, Kids, Science, Civics, and Social Studies
   Standards: Power, authority, and governance
   Strategies: Double data discs, space bubble, paper dolls, Delphi technique, hypotheticals, consequences chart