Teaching and Learning Elementary Social Studies

Are you looking for a practical elementary social studies methods text that provides a strong balance between the theory and effective practice? Take a moment to explore the ninth edition of Teaching and Learning Elementary Social Studies today. This well-respected textexplains, illustrates, and encourages developmentally appropriate practice while promoting engaged, exploratory learning and reflection.  A host of practical lessons are found throughout the book, as examples and launching points for effective social studies teaching.  A central purpose of the book is to address and nurture the strategies and tactics necessary to achieving the social studies goals of participatory citizenship, knowledge of our world, self-realization and regulation, and social and moral growth. 

More than in any previous edition, Art Ellis prepares you for the realities of teaching social studies today!

• New coverage of the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) Standards as well as the knowledge base children should have.
• Additional lessons and activities have been added throughout and all are now linked directly to the NCSS Standards.
• Additional insights from such theorists as Jerome Bruner, Jean Piaget, Lev Vygotsky, John Dewy, and more.
• New and additional coverage of the idea of children as researchers, interdisciplinary teaching and learning, connections to literature, and citizenship education.
• New coverage of teaching and learning strategies, children as makers and readers of maps, and literacy including electronic/media/information literacy.
• New/Updated content on character education, moral development, and service learning.