Making Time for Social Studies

Elementary teachers often struggle to make time to teach social studies. In her book, Rachel Swearengin shows how this can be done in all elementary classrooms with the right tools. Her unit planning process supports teachers as they unpack social studies standards, providing them with strategies and practices specific to social studies that promote students’ participation and lasting interest.

Grades K–5 teachers can use this book to:

Apply the claim-evidence-reasoning (CER) approach to their assessments
Employ key practices to ensure an enduring understanding of social studies standards
Learn primary source analysis strategies to use with students
Receive completed sample and planning templates for the K–2 and 3–5 grades
Create their own social studies units and daily lesson plans using their completed planning templates
Select grade-appropriate primary and secondary sources and understand the use of each

Contents:

Introduction

Chapter 1: Step 1—Unpacking Social Studies Standards

Chapter 2: Step 2—Creating Assessments

Chapter 3: Step 3—Choosing and Analyzing Primary Sources

Chapter 4: Step 4—Choosing and Analyzing Secondary Sources

Chapter 5: Turning Your Unit Into Daily Lesson Plans

Epilogue

Appendix A

Appendix B

References and Resources

Index