Digging deeper : activities for enriching and expanding social studies instruction K-12

Experts in social studies education and gifted education share teacher-tested strategies for differentiating social studies in K-12 classrooms. Chapter authors showcase best-practice and research-based lessons and activities that enrich and expand social studies instruction while building K-12 stude...

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Other Authors Hickey, M. Gail, 1955- (Editor), Clabough, Jeremiah (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2017]
SeriesTeaching and learning social studies.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806608812
DOI10.1108/978-1-68123-863-0
Physical Description1 online resource (vi, 237 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • 3-d timelines and family trees : Graphic organizers for teaching family and local history in elementary grades / M. Gail Hickey
  • Unwrapping then to understand now : Social studies differentiation for gifted students grades 3-5 / Deborah A. Wooten, Bruce Alan Ewing, and Kimberly F. McCuiston
  • What is the role of visual literacy in increasing social studies learning with gifted youth? / Mary E. Haas
  • Inquiry into egypt and jordan as representative countries in the middle east : Social studies students as gifted learners / Janie Hubbard and Lois McFadden Christensen
  • Place-based learning for elementary civic action / Ronald V. Morris
  • Problem-based learning for gifted students in the social studies classroom / Timothy Lintner and Arlene Puryear
  • The Indiana junior historical society : A model for civic engagement / Ronald V. Morris
  • How can geography help the gifted student deepen their understanding of the physical and cultural environment of america and the world? / Mary E. Haas
  • Sounds around the world : Music as social studies pedagogy / Kenneth T. Carano and Jason Armstrong Baker
  • "chewing" the scenery : Active acting for active, agile minds / Thomas N. Turner
  • Reaching higher for civic efficacy / Robert A. Waterson and Carla Brigandi
  • Global, gifted, and geography education : Thinking critically and creatively in the social studies / Jason Harshman, Abagael Shrader, and Benjamin VanVleet
  • Engaging gifted students in historiographical analysis : Perspectives on prohibition / Michael G. Lovorn
  • Enabling gifted students to actualize their potential through social studies writing activities / Nefertari Yancie and Jeremiah Clabough.