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. 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 assessmentsEmploy key practices to ensure an enduring understanding of social studies standardsLearn primary source analysis strategies to use with studentsReceive completed sample and planning templates for the K–2 and 3–5 gradesCreate their own social studies units and daily lesson plans using their completed planning templatesSelect 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 Read more