Curriculum Resources for PK-12

With each idea based on an original historical source from The National Archives (Great Britain), this book takes a skills-based approach that will help pupils understand the methods of historical inquiry. Themed to cover different source types, including photographs, government reports, cartoons, royal seals, manuscripts, & letters. The historical sources can be previewed in the book and downloaded from a Companion Website.

This book offers research-based models of exemplary practice for educators at all grade levels, from primary school to university, who want to integrate human rights education into their classrooms. It includes ten examples of projects that have been effectively implemented in classrooms: two from elementary school, two from middle school, three from high school, two from community college, and one from a university.

Explores historical literacy, adopts a research-supported stance on literacy processes, and promotes the integration of content-area literacy instruction into history content teaching. Surveys a broad range of texts and offers teaching strategies aligned to national standards.
Additional resources offered at https://historicalliteracies.byu.edu/

Easy-to-implement lessons to engage students in becoming media literacy "digital detectives," looking for clues, questioning motives, uncovering patterns, developing theories and, ultimately, delivering a verdict. Includes lessons for K through high school.

Brings ethnic history alive through the words of people, including teenagers, who recorded their experiences in letters, diaries, and poems.

Part I of the book features six full units, complete with student samples, targeted rubrics, a checklist to keep students on track, and even "Homework Hints." Part II is a mix-and-match section of tools you can use to create your own PBL-aligned lessons.

A detailed examination of school participatory budgeting (SPB), a democratic process that combines citizenship education, civic engagement and participatory governance.

These middle school lesson plans are part of the Countering Truth Decay initiative, which is focused on restoring the role of facts, data, and analysis in U.S. political and civil discourse. The lesson plans introduce students to public policy research and emphasize the importance of media literacy skills.

She's holding a torch. And she's taking one step forward. But why? What they find in the Statue of Liberty's right foot is the powerful message of acceptance that is essential to an entire country's creation.

Beginning with pre-Columbian history and ranging over characters and events as diverse as Reconstruction, Helen Keller, the first Thanksgiving, and the Mai Lai massacre, Loewen offers an eye-opening critique of existing textbooks, and a wonderful retelling of American history as it should--and could--be taught to American students.

Offers a solid research and theoretical foundation for combining social studies and literacy instruction. Shows how to engage middle and high school students in historical inquiry that incorporates literacy skills like reading complex texts and writing elaborated arguments. Presents simulation activities that immerse students in three eras of U.S. history: European incursions into North America, pre-Revolutionary War colonialism, and the Civil War and Reconstruction.

How to teach mindfulness strategies to your elementary and middle school students to provide a foundation for social-emotional well-being and academic engagement. Based on research, the curriculum covers 5 key mindfulness practices: Breath awareness, Body awareness, Focusing on gratitude, Kindness toward self and others, Open awareness . Each chapter includes a detailed lesson plan with support materials. These tools, as well as audio recordings of the practices, are also available for classroom use at http://www.routledge.com/9781138586550

Each of these 33 units offers book summaries, social studies topic areas, critical thinking questions, and dozens of easy-to-do activities.

A resource for educators to develop “news literacy” skills of students in objectively evaluating the news.

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Using books from the Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, selected by the National Council for the Social Studies and Children's Book Council, this book offers strategies, lesson plans, and activities for using literature as a springboard to social studies thematic instruction. Engaging lessons foster critical thinking and integrate social studies & English language arts.

Nationally representative survey results demonstrate how social studies teachers in U.S. public schools promote students' civic learning, teachers' beliefs about the importance of civic-related topics and skills, and which conditions they perceive as supporting or hindering civic education.

Offers project based learning units for middle and high school classrooms with relevant pedagogical advice. Unit topics include the U.S. colonies, American Revolution, Progressive Era, enslavement, industrialization, the Great Depression, and the U.S.-Dakota War.

Offers six research-tested historical investigations with teaching materials and tools to improve historical thinking and argumentative writing. Each investigation integrates reading, analysis, planning, composing, and reflection into a writing process for an argumentative history essay. Primary sources have been modified to allow struggling readers access to the material. Also, provides links to original unmodified primary sources, additional web resources, and sample student essays.

Each chapter begins with an essay that sets the stage of a key moment in American history. Primary documents, charts, graphic organisers, visual images, and political cartoons follow each essay, as well as suggestions for where to find additional resources on the Internet and guidance for assessing students' understanding of core historical ideas.

"This book, which contains chapters from many leading scholars within the field of social studies education, both assesses the ways in which the social studies curriculum has failed to live up to the promises of progressive citizenship education made in the wake of the attacks and offers practical advice for teachers who wish to encourage a critical understanding of the post-9/11 global society in which their students live."

A "how-to guide for explicitly promoting social justice and implicitly democratizing learning in the primary grades" - Education Review

Presents a unique framework to help educators (grades 3-8) in their efforts to teach for social justice. Each chapter explains how teachers can restructure, reshape, and manipulate mandated curriculum materials to teach from a critical perspective.

Readers are encouraged to reconsider their assumptions and understanding about the origins, purposes, nature, and possibilities of the social studies curriculum.

Offers numerous strategies for teaching Social Studies with explanations of how both Common Core and National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) standards and themes are addressed. Written with secondary students in mind.

Offers practical and easy-to-implement lessons, including:
- Specific directions for employing place-based best practices in the classroom
- Ways to meet state standards without sacrificing teacher creativity or hands-on learning
- Lists of resources and primary source materials

The authors describe how critical thinking that encourages dialogue across the school disciplines and across social/economic classes prepares students for participation in democracy. They offer specific, concrete strategies for addressing a variety of issues related to authority, religion, gender, race, media, sports, entertainment, class and poverty, capitalism and socialism, and equality and justice. The goal is to develop individuals who can examine their own beliefs, those of their own and other groups, and those of their nation, and can do so with respect and understanding for others values.

Outlines principles and practices for teaching data literacy as part of social studies education.

Provides project-based units of study and classroom practices that allow students to reconfigure understandings of themselves, their capabilities, and their roles in the world. Offers the realistic perspective of a teacher working in an urban public high school.

What should teachers do on the days after major events, tragedies, and traumas, especially when injustice is involved? Examples of days after that teachers remember, including 9/11, elections, natural disasters, gun violence, police brutality, social uprisings, Supreme Court decisions, immigration policies, and more.

"This book offers the tools teachers need to get started with an innovative approach to teaching history, one that develops literacy and higher-order thinking skills, connects the past to students’ lives today, and meets Common Core State Standards (grades 7–12). The author provides over 60 primary sources organized into seven thematic units, each structured around an essential question from U.S. history."

Help your students navigate complex texts in history and social studies. This book shows you how to use document-based questions, or DBQs, to build student literacy and critical thinking skills while meeting rigorous state standards and preparing students for AP exams.

Promotes student engagement and critical thinking to replace or augment a traditional textbook. Over 90 primary sources organized into seven thematic units, each structured around an essential question from world history. Each unit connects to current events with dynamic classroom activities. Printable copies of the documents included in the book can be downloaded at tcpress.com.

Dewey's instrumentalism offers social studies educators a tool for addressing vexing problems such as whether they should design classroom experiences using a traditional or a social studies approach to learning history, the role of digital technologies, the purpose and challenges of younger learners working with an expanding horizons curriculum, and many more.

Selected testimonies to living history—speeches, letters, poems, songs—offered by the people who make history happen, but are often left out of history books: women, workers, nonwhites.

Provides practical applications of democratic teaching for classes in history/social studies.

A citizen can pick up litter A citizen can pull a weed A citizen can help that critter A citizen can plant a seed A citizen can aid a neighbor A citizen can join a cause A citizen can write a letter A citizen can help change laws . . . This is a book for today's youth about what it means to be a citizen.

This book is designed to help children cope with exposure to news items such as extreme weather events, terrorism, etc. The book explains news, how news can be sensationalized, and misinformation. Also offers cognitive-behavioral techniques for taking care of themselves.

Historical study that centers on a question, where students gather a variety of historical sources and then develop and defend their answers to that question, allows students to become actual historians immersed in an interpretive study of the past.

A new, revised and updated single-volume young adult version of Howard Zinn's classic telling of American history. A Young People's History of the United States brings to history the viewpoints of workers, slaves, immigrants, women, Native Americans and others whose stories, and their impact, are rarely included in books for young readers.

Family is made up of the people we care about. Young readers will learn that a family is made up of the people we are related to, as well as other people we care about and people who serve as our role models. Reading Level: Gr. K-1 Interest Level: Gr. K-3

Young readers will learn that a person can have many feelings, and that they don't stay the same all the time. Expressive photographs provide kids with visual clues to different emotions. Reading Level: Gr. K-1 Interest Level: Gr. K-3

What makes a good friend? Young readers will learn that friends are people you care about and want to spend time with. Emphasis is placed on respect and consideration. Reading Level: Gr. K-1 Interest Level: Gr. K-3

Young readers are taught that manners are how we show our consideration for other people. Kids are shown practicing manners at home, at school, and out in public places. Reading Level: Gr. K-1 Interest Level: Gr. K-3

No matter which religion people do or don't practice, our values teach us to respect each other's right to practice their religion. Young readers will learn that sharing values like this one helps us live and work together in a community. Reading Level: Gr. 2-3 Interest Level: Gr. 1-4

We often make choices based on our values, which are the things that are important to us. Readers will learn that making responsible choices means doing what you think is right. It also means showing respect for others as well as ourselves in the things we choose to do. Reading Level: Gr. 2-3 Interest Level: Gr. 1-4

Being respectful means that we behave in a way that shows the people around us that we care about their feelings and rights. Children will learn ways to show respect to others using manners, obeying laws, showing empathy, and having respect for yourself too. Reading Level: Gr. 2-3 Interest Level: Gr. 1-4

A person can be part of one or many different communities, or even one big world community. This books explains to young readers that being part of a community allows us to make friendships and work together to solve problems at home, at school, and in our cultures. Reading Level: Gr. 2-3 Interest Level: Gr. 1-4

Equality is having the same rights, opportunities, and status as everyone else. Diversity is about recognizing the importance of different cultures in society, while still protecting their equality. This timely book discusses why the acceptance of diversity is important in society to prevent discrimination based on race, religion, and sex. Case studies of real-world events help readers understand the consequences of inequality. Reading Level: Gr. 5-6 Interest Level: Gr. 5-8+

Readers will learn that there are many different kinds of governments. Examples of governments around the world frame a discussion of why it is important that citizens have a say in who governs them and the decisions that get made. Activities encourage further discussion. Reading Level: Gr. 5-6 Interest Level: Gr. 5-8+

This empowering book talks about how family, culture, and values shape our identities and that it is important to be happy with who you are. Identities are the ways that people think about and see themselves. Gender often makes up a large part of our identity. Whether male or female, a person's gender is more about which sex they strongly identify themselves as being. An activity encourages further discussion. Reading Level: Gr. 5-6 Interest Level: Gr. 5-8+

As people, we are all born with certain rights, called human rights, that are not given to us by laws. This book explains that no matter where we live in the world or under what government, our human rights protect our claim to live with freedom, equality, justice, and peace. Case studies discuss what happens when human rights are blocked and our liberty--the right to live the way we want to--is taken away. An activity encourages further discussion. Reading Level: Gr. 5-6 Interest Level: Gr. 5-8+