Contains twenty strategies for engaging students in social studies and more than two hundred grade-level activities, including project-based and problem-based instruction tips, with graphic organizers, semantic maps, word webs, and internet projects.
"... kicks off with the Paleolithic Era and transports the reader to ancient civilizations-from Africa and beyond; the middle ages across the world; the Renaissance; the age of exploration and colonialism, revolutions, and the modern world and the wars and movements that shaped it"--Amazon.com.
"... takes readers from scientific investigation and the engineering design process to the Periodic Table; forces and motion; forms of energy; outer space and the solar system; to earth sciences, biology, body systems, ecology, and more"--Amazon.com.
Introduces middle grade students to problem solving strategies, covering when to choose what operation, finding patterns, making tables, lists, diagrams, guessing, reasoning, working backwards, and more.
"Demonstrates exactly how to integrate and implement Guided Inquiry Design (GID) theory into practice. Answers the needs of teachers and librarians who are seeking actual lesson plans using the GID concepts specifically at the 6th-8th grade levels"--Provided by publisher.
sharing folk literature with elementary and middle school students
Young, Terrell A
2004
Presents a comprehensive guide to defining and teaching folk literature in the elementary and middle school classroom and provides an overview of traditional literature and an understanding of folk and fairy tales, fables, myths, and legends as well as cross-cultural literature.
