Social Studies Research and Practice: Volume 5 Issue 3

Review, Reflect, and React: A Culturally Responsive Model for Pre-service Secondary Social Studies Teachers

The purpose of this qualitative study was to design and implement a model of cultural-responsiveness within a social studies teacher education program. Specifically, we sought to…

A Gender Analysis of NCSS Notable Picture Book Winners: 2006-2008

This study provides a gender analysis of National Council for the Social Studies Notable Trade picture book selections suitable for the primary grades from the years 2006-2008…

Inquiry Teaching with Primary Source Documents: An Iterative Approach

Research on inquiry teaching in the social studies has concluded that it can refer to any number of approaches and is not taught consistently. The scholarship reveals that inquiry…

Student-Centered Teaching Methods in the History Classroom: Ideas, Issues, and Insights for New Teachers

Using student-centered teaching methods presents a great challenge to many new middle and high school history teachers. Having experienced mostly teacher-centered instructional…

Literacy Strategies that Promote Democratic Skills, Attitudes, and Behaviors in the Social Studies Classroom

We contend that a major purpose of education is to prepare students to be active and critical partici-pants in our democracy. To facilitate this goal, students should acquire a…

Election Participation: An Integral Service-based Component for Social Studies Methods

Most educators recognize that social studies methods courses emphasize connecting knowledge to life, through experiential learning and actions based on individual and civic…

Notable Trade Books

Notable Trade Book Lesson Plan Thanksgiving: The True Story Written and Illustrated by Penny Coleman

Using Thanksgiving: The True Story by Penny Coleman, this interdisciplinary inquiry-based lesson focuses on critical thinking. Students are introduced to the true story of the…

Notable Trade Book Lesson Plan What a Family! Written by Rachel Isadora

Every family has its own structure and unique characteristics. The family in this book has diversity and many of the nontraditional family groupings prevalent in society today…

Notable Trade Book Lesson Plan Lost Childhood: My Life In A Japanese Prison Camp During World War II Written by Annelex Hofstra Layson with Herman J. Viola

is a memoir. The events of World War II (WWII) took place around the world disrupting the daily lives of children. In school students often examine WWII only from the perspective…

Notable Trade Book Lesson Plan One World, One Day Written by Barbara Kerley

This extensive lesson involves grades pre-K-3 students in exploring the similarities in the experiences in a single day that children have across the world. Students use…

Social Activist Women: Choosing to Live by their own Moral Code

Historical women played a key role as social advocates for people and most especially, children of immigrant families. Educators for social justice bring lives and actions of…

Using Technology to Prepare Critically Thinking Global Citizens

Social studies teachers possess a daunting task in a 21^st century environment of economic-mindedness and technological infatuation. In a setting of individualism and instant…