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Stanley, Melissa K.; Schroeder, Stephanie – Social Studies, 2023
The American Civil Rights Movement has often been misrepresented in textbooks, children's literature, and other curricular materials. With knowledge of the ongoing curricular distortion around Black history in P-12 curricula in mind, this article explores how a commonly used social studies curriculum, "Studies Weekly"®, represents the…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Curriculum, Civil Rights, Whites
Pantaleo, Sylvia – Social Studies, 2021
Participation in a classroom-based study provided Grade 4 students with multiple opportunities to develop their visual meaning-making skills and competences, as well as their aesthetic understanding of and critical thinking about multimodal ensembles. Intentionally-designed instruction during the multifaceted research included a variety of…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Elementary School Students, Critical Thinking, Aesthetics
Whitlock, Annie McMahon – Social Studies, 2015
The College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework from the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) features an inquiry approach to teaching K-12 social studies in which social studies standards are organized into an "inquiry arc." Inquiry in elementary economics is often underused in practice (Laney 2001). This study describes how a…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Inquiry, Active Learning, Economics Education
Halvorsen, Anne-Lise; Kesler Lund, Alisa – Social Studies, 2013
This article examines the experiences of a group of fifth-grade teachers who used lesson study, a teacher-driven form of professional development, to teach history in a project supported by a Teaching American History Grant. The project addressed the following questions: What does a lesson study cycle for history education look like? What…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Grade 5, Elementary School Teachers, Faculty Development
Rosler, Brenda – Social Studies, 2008
The purpose of this study was to describe a group of fifth grade students as they engaged in process drama during their social studies class. The author found that students who engaged in process drama learned to combine texts to understand and create new texts. As they became engaged in the material, students collaborated with each other and…
Descriptors: Drama, Textbooks, Grade 5, Social Studies
Bolgatz, Jane – Social Studies, 2005
"American history," writer James Baldwin told a group of teachers in 1963, "is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it" (1963/1996, 227). Children, Baldwin argued, have "the right and necessity to examine everything." In particular, they need to…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Race, Social Studies, Elementary School Students