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Direct linkScott M. Waring Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2024
This resource has been developed for pre-K-20 educators in order to help students use primary sources to go beyond simple acquisition of content knowledge and rote memorization. The procedures and approaches outlined in this book are designed to help students use primary sources in discipline- and inquiry-based ways to develop and enhance cultural…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Information Sources, Cultural Awareness, Civics
Cress, Christine M.; Stokamer, Stephanie T.; Van Cleave, Thomas J.; Kaufman, Joyce P. – Stylus Publishing LLC, 2022
This is a practical guide to designing, teaching, and coordinating service-learning courses, and for developing reciprocal community partnerships and community-based research through a lens of equity that addresses the endemic racial, social, economic, and environmental disparities across society. The text provides a comprehensive framework for…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Partnerships in Education, School Community Programs, Community Involvement
Block, Joshua – Teachers College Press, 2020
This classroom narrative explores how teachers can build and sustain an intellectually and emotionally fulfilling teaching practice while changing the way students experience school. Written by an English and history teacher in a Philadelphia public high school, this book presents a framework of teaching for a living democracy--supporting learners…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Student Experience, Democratic Values, Citizenship Education
Peer reviewedManfra, Meghan McGlinn – Social Education, 2007
In this article, the author provides an overview of teaching and learning activities that combine both historical and civics instruction with the study of technology, in line with NCSS thematic strand "Science, Technology, and Society." Specifically, these integrative teaching activities focus on Lowell Mill and Ralph Waldo Emerson, within the…
Descriptors: United States History, Science and Society, Industrialization, Democratic Values
LeCompte, Karon N. – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2006
Exposure to ideas helps young children articulate their own beliefs and sharpens their connections. Teachers can provide opportunities for children to advance their knowledge about democratic conditions through sustained discourse, or, as described in this article, purposeful class discussions followed by hands-on activities. The author describes…
Descriptors: Discussion (Teaching Technique), Learning Activities, Group Discussion, Class Activities
Klemp, Ron; McBride, Bill; Ogle, Donna – Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2007
It's tough to teach social studies and history to students who have trouble reading and understanding textbooks and other resources. But you can overcome those obstacles and motivate students to excel in social studies classes by using the concepts and research-based techniques in this guide. Renowned reading expert Donna Ogle teams up with two…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Vocabulary, Literacy, Internet
