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Bring social studies to life in your classroom!Best-selling author Marcia L. Tate brings her trademark "dendrite-growing" teaching strategies to this practitioner-friendly collection of brain-compatible strategies for engaging K–12 students in social studies. Included are 20 proven methods and more than 200 grade-leveled activities for applying them, including samples lesson plans. Teachers will find concrete ways to integrate national social studies content standards into their curriculum with visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and tactile experiences that maximize retention, including: Project-based and problem-based instruction Storytelling, music, and humor Graphic organizers, semantic maps, and word webs Internet projects
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In this resource for K-12 teachers of social studies, Tate, an educational consultant, presents numerous activities and sample lesson plans designed to reinforce the 10 major themes of social studies found in the national curriculum standards given by the National Council for Social Studies. Activities are grouped into chapters on 20 general strategies, such as artwork, field trips, games, humor, manipulatives, music, movement, storytelling, technology, and apprenticeships. Each strategy chapter begins with an overview of the research and theory associated with that strategy and why it works to help students learn, then offers many activities for different grade levels. Tate is former executive director of professional development for the DeKalb County School System. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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