Social studies teachers will find classroom-tested lessons and strategies that can be easily implemented in the classroom
The Teacher’s Toolbox series is an innovative, research-based resource providing teachers with instructional strategies for students of all levels and abilities. Each book in the collection focuses on a specific content area. Clear, concise guidance enables teachers to quickly integrate low-prep, high-value lessons and strategies in their middle school and high school classrooms. Every strategy follows a practical, how-to format established by the series editors.
The Social Studies Teacher's Toolbox contains hundreds of student-friendly classroom lessons and teaching strategies. Clear and concise chapters, fully aligned to Common Core Social Studies standards and National Council for the Social Studies standards, cover the underlying research, technology based options, practical classroom use, and modification of each high-value lesson and strategy.
This book employs a hands-on approach to help educators quickly learn and apply proven methods and techniques in their social studies courses. Topics range from reading and writing in social studies and tools for analysis, to conducting formative and summative assessments, differentiating instruction, motivating students, incorporating social and emotional learning and culturally responsive teaching. Easy-to-read content shows how and why social studies should be taught and how to make connections across history, geography, political science, and beyond. Designed to reduce instructor preparation time and increase relevance, student engagement, and comprehension, this book:
- Explains the usefulness, application, and potential drawbacks of each instructional strategy
- Provides fresh activities applicable to all classrooms
- Helps social studies teachers work with ELLs, advanced students, and students with learning differences
- Offers real-world guidance for addressing current events while covering standards and working with textbooks
The Social Studies Teacher's Toolbox is an invaluable source of real-world lessons, strategies, and techniques for general education teachers and social studies specialists, as well as resource specialists/special education teachers, elementary and secondary educators, and teacher educators.
Table of Contents
About the Authors xxi
About the Editors of the Toolbox Series xxiii
Acknowledgments xxv
Letter from the Editors xxvii
Introduction xxix
I Reading and Writing 1
1A Fresh Look at Vocabulary 3
What is It? 3
Why We Like It 3
Supporting Research 4
Common Core Connections 4
Social Studies Connections 4
Application 5
Building a Word List 5
Accessing Prior Knowledge 6
Building Understanding 10
Revising and Formalizing Definitions 11
Differentiation 13
Advanced Extensions 14
Student Handouts and Examples 15
What Could Go Wrong? 15
Technology Connections 15
Figures 16
2 Reading Strategies 19
What is It? 19
Why We Like It 19
Supporting Research 20
Common Core Connections 20
Social Studies Connections 20
Application 21
Text Selection 22
Pre-reading 22
Predicting 22
Connecting 23
Key Ideas 24
Summarizing 24
Questioning 25
Visualizing 26
Clarifying 27
Differentiation 28
Advanced Extensions 29
Student Handouts and Examples 29
What Could Go Wrong? 29
Technology Connections 30
Attribution 31
Figures 32
3 Read-Aloud Protocol 37
What is It? 37
Why We Like It 37
Supporting Research 37
Common Core Connections 38
Social Studies Connections 38
Application 38
Finding and Preparing Authentic Texts 39
Read-Aloud Protocol 41
Student-Created Read-Alouds 45
Differentiation 48
Advanced Extensions 48
Student Handouts and Examples 49
What Could Go Wrong? 49
Technology Connections 49
Attribution 49
Figures 50
4 Thematic Data Sets 55
What is It? 55
Why We Like It 55
Supporting Research 56
Common Core Connections 56
Social Studies Connections 56
Application 57
Building a Data Set 57
Teaching Protocol for Using Data Sets 59
Differentiation 64
Advanced Extensions 65
Student Handouts and Examples 65
What Could Go Wrong? 66
Technology Connections 66
Attribution 66
Figures 67
5 Writing in Social Studies 79
What is It? 79
Why We Like It 79
Supporting Research 79
Common Core Connections 80
Social Studies Connections 80
Application 80
Golden Lines - Kick-Starting Writing 81
Writing Frames 82
Writing Structures 84
Extended Argument Writing 88
Other Social Studies Writing Activities 89
Differentiation 90
Advanced Extensions 91
Student Handouts and Examples 92
What Could Go Wrong? 92
Technology Connections 92
Attribution 93
Figures 94
6 Mnemonics 105
What is It? 105
Why We Like It 105
Supporting Research 106
Common Core Connections 106
Social Studies Connections 106
Application 107
Story Mnemonics 107
Differentiation 111
Advanced Extensions 111
Student Handouts and Examples 112
What Could Go Wrong? 112
Technology Connections 112
Attribution 113
Figures 114
7 Timelines Revisited 117
What is It? 117
Why We Like It 117
Supporting Research 118
Common Core Connections 118
Social Studies Connections 118
Application 118
Identity Timelines 119
Additional Timeline Activities 128
Differentiation 129
Advanced Extensions 130
Student Handouts and Examples 130
What Could Go Wrong? 131
Technology Connections 131
Attribution 131
Figures 132
8 Current Event Case Study 135
What is It? 135
Why We Like It 135
Supporting Research 136
Common Core Connections 136
Social Studies Connections 136
Application 136
Sequencing of Events 137
Developing Questions 139
Bias Awareness and Research 141
Written Analysis 145
Additional Ideas for Including Current Events in the Classroom 146
Differentiation 147
Advanced Extensions 148
Student Handouts and Examples 148
What Could Go Wrong? 148
Technology Connections 149
Figures 150
9 Genre Study 151
What is It? 151
Why We Like It 151
Supporting Research 152
Common Core Connections 152
Social Studies Connections 152
Application 152
Student Choice Genre Project 159
Differentiation 164
Advanced Extensions 165
Student Handouts and Examples 165
What Could Go Wrong? 165
Technology Connections 166
Attribution 166
Figures 167
10 Concept Attainment 175
What is It? 175
Why We Like It 176
Supporting Research 176
Common Core Connections 176
Social Studies Connections 176
Application 176
Democracy Concept Attainment 177
Concept Attainment to Improve Writing 180
Differentiation 183
Advanced Extensions 183
Student Handouts and Examples 184
What Could Go Wrong? 184
Technology Connections 184
Figures 184
II Analysis Tools 185
11 Questions for Learning 187
What is It? 187
Why We Like It 187
Supporting Research 188
Common Core Connections 188
Social Studies Connections 188
Application 189
Teacher-Generated Questions 190
Student-Generated Questions 194
Differentiation 197
Advanced Extensions 197
Student Handouts and Examples 198
What Could Go Wrong? 198
Technology Connections 198
12 Image Analysis 199
What is It? 199
Why We Like It 199
Supporting Research 200
Common Core Connections 200
Social Studies Connections 200
Application 201
Photographs 201
Paintings 207
Political Cartoons 210
Video 213
Differentiation 218
Advanced Extensions 219
Student Handouts and Examples 219
What Could Go Wrong? 219
Technology Connections 220
Figures 221
13 Analysis of Primary Sources 229
What is It? 229
Why We Like It 229
Supporting Research 230
Common Core Connections 230
Social Studies Connections 230
Application 230
Primary Source Engagement Activity 230
At a Glance Primary Source Analysis 232
In-Depth Analysis of Source 234
Additional Key Strategies 238
Differentiation 243
Advanced Extensions 243
Student Handouts and Examples 244
What Could Go Wrong? 244
Technology Connections 245
Attribution 245
Figures 246
14 Synthesis Charts 257
What is It? 257
Why We Like It 257
Supporting Research 258
Common Core Connections 258
Social Studies Connections 258
Application 258
Creating a Synthesis Chart 259
Implementing Synthesis Charts with Students 266
Differentiation 273
Advanced Extensions 273
Student Handouts and Examples 274
What Could Go Wrong? 274
Technology Connections 274
Attribution 274
III Speaking and Listening 275
15 Listening and Speaking Activities 277
What is It? 277
Why We Like It 277
Supporting Research 278
Common Core Connections 278
Social Studies Connections 278
Application 278
Active Listening Mini-Lesson 278
Guest Speakers 280
Podcasts 283
Student Presentations 285
Differentiation 288
Advanced Extensions 288
Student Handouts and Examples 288
What Could Go Wrong? 289
Technology Connections 289
Attribution 290
Figures 291
16 Discussions 295
What is It? 295
Why We Like It 295
Supporting Research 296
Common Core Connections 296
Social Studies Connections 296
Application 296
Informal Discussion Strategies 297
Formal Discussion Strategies 300
Additional Key Strategies 313
Differentiation 315
Advanced Extensions 315
Student Handouts and Examples 316
What Could Go Wrong? 316
Technology Connections 316
Attribution 317
Figures 317
IV Additional Key Strategies 321
17 Project-Based Learning 323
What is It? 323
Why We Like It 323
Supporting Research 324
Common Core Connections 324
Social Studies Connections 324
Application 324
Key Steps in PBL 325
Textbook Insert Project 334
Other Ideas for Project-Based Learning 344
Differentiation 345
Advanced Extensions 346
Student Handouts and Examples 346
What Could Go Wrong? 347
Technology Connections 347
Figures 348
18 Culturally Responsive Teaching 353
What is It? 353
Why We like It 353
Supporting Research 354
Common Core Connections 354
Social Studies Connections 354
Application 354
Reflective Questions 355
Differentiation 369
Advanced Modifications 370
Student Handouts and Examples 370
What Could Go Wrong? 370
Technology Connections 371
Attribution 371
Figures 372
19 Social and Emotional Learning 375
What is It? 375
Why We Like It 375
Supporting Research 376
Common Core Connections 376
Social Studies Connections 376
Application 377
Growth Mindset Mini-Lesson 377
Empathy Mini-Lesson 380
Tips for Reinforcing SEL 383
Differentiation 385
Advanced Extensions 385
Student Handouts and Examples 386
What Could Go Wrong? 386
Technology Connections 386
Attribution 387
Figures 388
20 Assessment 397
What is It? 397
Why We Like It 397
Supporting Research 398
Common Core Connections 398
Social Studies Connections 398
Application 398
Diagnostic 399
Formative 403
Summative 406
Student Self-Assessment 411
Differentiation 412
Advanced Extensions 413
Student Handouts and Examples 413
What Could Go Wrong? 413
Technology Connections 414
Figures 416
21 Getting the Most from Your Textbook 417
What is It? 417
Why We Like It 417
Supporting Research 418
Common Core Connections 418
Social Studies Connections 418
Application 418
Using Images 418
Using Textbook Excerpts 419
Discussions 420
Timelines 421
Vocabulary 422
Reading Strategies 423
Student-Created Tests 423
Primary Sources 423
Mnemonics 424
Anticipatory Sets 425
Scavenger Hunts 425
Jigsaws 425
Analyzing What’s Missing in the Textbook 427
Differentiation 427
Advanced Extensions 427
Student Handouts and Examples 427
What Could Go Wrong? 428
Technology Connections 428
References 429
Index 455
