Making Time for Social Studies: A Four-Step Process for Unit Planning in the Elementary Classroom (Implement Engaging Social Studies Units.)

"Elementary social studies teachers often struggle to make time to teach social studies, whether their school includes a designated time for it or not. Learn how to find the time and the tactics to integrate lasting social studies instruction. Prepare students to analyze historical texts and meaningfully engage in civics as adults. Rachel Swearengin demonstrates that this can be done successfully in the elementary social studies classroom with the right tools and preparation. Her guide Making Time for Social Studies: A Four-Step Process for Unit Planning in the Elementary Classroom unpacks social studies standards and then provides the strategies and practices that promote students' participation and lasting interest, not only in the memorization of historical facts but in topics relevant to the present day. Swearengin guides readers on how to select grade-appropriate primary and secondary sources, assist students in analyzing those sources, and structure assessments that plan for informed action"--