Social Science

On school playgrounds and sporting fields, the words 'you throw like a girl' are often used to denigrate particular players. Caricatures on Native Americans continue to fill billboards and sport stadiums, even in our nation's capital, despite the outcry...

The use of primary sources as texts in the classroom is growing. Teachers realize these vital witnesses provide opportunities to motivate students and improve learning. They bring students closer to the people, places, and events being studied and help...

This edited volume serves as a place for teachers and scholars to begin seeking ways in which popular culture has been effectively tapped for research and teaching purposes around the country. The contents of the book came together in a way that allowed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940457222Author Facing History and OurselvesFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Facing History & Ourselves National Foundation, IncorporatedPublisher...

Brainball:Teaching Inquiry and Social Studies as a Team Sport is an attempt to clarify that not only is social studies a game, but that it is one of the most useful and powerful games that teachers and students will ever play. Games are the doing of...

"Shreiner demonstrates how we use data visualizations to understand and construct arguments about the world around us and provides concrete ideas for how to approach teaching it in social studies classrooms. This book makes teaching data literacy feel...

"The book offers suggestions and ideas as to how teachers can change the social studies curriculum to heal from trauma and harm and instead focus on the celebration and sustainment of multiple languages." -Journal of Education for Multilingualism ...

We are surrounded by data and data visualizations in our everyday lives. To help ensure that students can critically evaluate data--and use it to promote social justice--this book outlines principles and practices for teaching data literacy as part of...

"If I believe that democracy is for everyone, that students should learn to think and act in the community, and that it is not enough just to learn one story from history, then this book is a wonderful place to begin conversations about building that...

Offering a step-by-step guide on how to write an impactful decision-based teaching case for business education, this book aids in the creation of resources that will be essential for an academic curriculum. It demonstrates how the case and teaching note...

Through research, storytelling, curriculum development, and pedagogy, this book will help educators engage emergent bilingual and multilingual (EBML) students with social studies and citizenship education. Chapters are written by well-known and new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781425803698Author Garth SundemFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Shell Educational PublishingPublisher Shell Educational PublishingWeight(grams)...

In Schoolishness, Susan D. Blum continues her journey as an anthropologist and educator. The author defines "schoolishness" as educational practices that emphasize packaged "learning," unimaginative teaching, uniformity, constant evaluation by others,...

Social studies education over its hundred-year history has focused predominantly on white and male narratives. This has not only been detrimental to the increasingly diverse population of the U.S., but it has also meant that social studies as a field of...

This book is centered on the fifteen landmark cases as identified and required for students taking the College Board Advanced Placement (R) Government and Politics Exam. Reading U.S. Supreme Court cases can be a difficult task, especially in the limited...

A critical question in social studies education is not whether teachers develop and teach units of study, but what is in the units of study teachers develop and teach. Curricular planning and instruction must focus on what we teach in the social studies...

Popular media has become a common means by which students understand both the present and the past. Consequently, more teachers are using various forms of popular culture as pedagogical tools in the history classroom. Science fiction is one of the most...

Popular media has become a common means by which students understand both the present and the past. Consequently, more teachers are using various forms of popular culture as pedagogical tools in the history classroom. With their emphasis on issues such...

History is not a mere chronicle of facts, but a dialogue between competing interpretations of the past; it should be taught as such. Teaching history in this way makes it both intellectually demanding and more interesting, while at the same time helps...

The Use of Literary Sources in Social Studies, K-8 is a resource for teachers who wish to include varied literary genres in their social studies instruction along with a required social studies textbook. The literature described and exemplified in this...

Understanding and addressing social justice concerns has become a central focus in an increasing number of schools as well as teacher education programs. The activities in this book are grounded in the recognition that personal experience and engagement...

Imagine a Founding Father visiting a classroom today, or a sailor from the War of 1812, an Amish man, a 19th century pioneer, or even a Civil War veteran. Ronald Morris has spent more than 25 years bringing these characters into classrooms and inspiring...

Teaching history should not be reciting an endless list of dead men, entombed between the covers of a textbook. Instead, Breaking Away from the Textbook offers a fascinating journey through world history. Not a comprehensive, theory-heavy guide, this...

Popular media has become a common means by which students understand both the present and the past. Consequently, more teachers are using various forms of popular culture as pedagogical tools in the history classroom. With their resurgent popularity-on...

School textbooks in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and elsewhere in the Arab and Muslim worlds are filled with anti-Western and anti-Israel propaganda. Most readers will be shocked to discover that history and geography textbooks widely used in America's...

This two-part book provides teachers in kindergarten through grade eight with a valuable resource as how to include primary sources in a social studies curriculum along with a required social studies textbook. The first section of this book contains...

Understanding and addressing social justice concerns has become a central focus in an increasing number of schools as well as teacher education programs. The activities in this book are grounded in the recognition that personal experience and engagement...

The Use of Literary Sources in Social Studies, K-8 is a resource for teachers who wish to include varied literary genres in their social studies instruction along with a required social studies textbook. The literature described and exemplified in this...

And Action! Directing Documentaries in the Social Studies Classroom provides social studies educators with the background knowledge, conceptual understanding, and tools necessary to design and facilitate classroom documentary projects in the K-12 social...

The Cognitive Classroom describes how cutting-edge and classic research findings from the fields of brain science and cognitive psychology may be applied to classroom teaching. Using the perspective and expertise of an educational researcher originally...

The Cognitive Classroom describes how cutting-edge and classic research findings from the fields of brain science and cognitive psychology may be applied to classroom teaching. Using the perspective and expertise of an educational researcher originally...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781425813963Author Marla TomlinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Shell Educational PublishingPublisher Shell Educational Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781425813956Author Terri McNamaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Shell Educational PublishingPublisher Shell Educational Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781425813932Author Kathy FlynnFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Shell Educational PublishingPublisher Shell Educational Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781425803704Author Garth SundemFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Shell Educational PublishingPublisher Shell Educational PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743964371Author Marc PiochFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Shell Educational PublishingPublisher Shell Educational PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087662664Author Darcy MellingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Shell Educational PublishingPublisher Shell Educational PublishingWeight(grams)...

Situated at the intersection of race and civics, this volume discusses how communities of color interpret and enact civics both within and beyond the classroom. Chapters focus on historical and contemporary topics ranging from issues facing Asian...

"By nearly every measure, Americans are less engaged in their communities and political activity than generations past." So write the editors of this volume, who survey the current practices and history of citizenship education in the United States. ...

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...