Social Studies for the Elementary and Middle Grades: A Constructivist Approach
- ISBN-10
- 0205518877
- ISBN-13
- 9780205518876
- Category
- Constructivism (Education)
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Allyn & Bacon
- Authors
- Cynthia S. Sunal, Mary Elizabeth Haas
Description
Replete with lessons, best practices in teaching strategies, and the latest on the constructivist approach, this text demonstrates how to help diverse students construct important social studies concepts and skills. Packed with activities, up-to-date technology, teaching strategies, and a constructivist approach, this text demonstrates how to use developmentally appropriate strategies to help students construct important social studies ideas and skills. Building on the success of previous editions, Social Studies for the Elementary and Middle Grades discusses flexible strategies for teaching today's diverse learner, the structure of the knowledge to be learned, how to help students reconstruct present ideas, and how to translate theory and recent research into lesson plans and units.Social Studies Methods with a constructivist approach. Designed as a main text for undergraduate and graduate-level courses in both Elementary and Middle School social studies methods in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction
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- 2010-02
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- 2005
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