Getting at the core of the common core with social studies

For social studies teachers reeling from the buffeting of top-down educational reforms, this volume offers answers to questions about dealing with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Each chapter presents and reviews pertinent standards that relate to the social studies. Each chapter also deals...

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Other Authors Turner, Thomas N. (Editor), Clabough, Jeremiah (Editor), Cole, William (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2015.
SeriesTeaching and learning social studies.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806611867
DOI10.1108/978-1-62396-876-2
Physical Description1 online resource (vi, 300 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • How did we get here? : Common core and the history of standards in social studies education / Joshua L. Kenna and William Benedict Russell III
  • What is inquiry? : Giving the hippopotamus wings / Thomas Turner and Jeremiah Clabough
  • Getting to the "core" of the problem : Decision-making activities and common core state standards / William G. Cole
  • Historical thinking: Cultivating a rich garden of autonomous thinkers / Jennifer Summerlin
  • Building global citizens through the common core / Dorothy E. Blanks
  • The common core state standards : Implications for students with learning disabilities / Tara Bezait and Timothy Lintner
  • Exploring social studies through digital literacy / Debra Coffey
  • Linking literacy and social studies through picture books in k-12 settings / Amy D. Broemmel, Seth Rayman, and Shannon A. Hancock
  • Historical fiction : Reality meets imagination / Sarah Philpott
  • Disciplinary literacy : Teaching students to read as historians Chapter / Todd Cherner, Adam Kelley, and Mikel Norris
  • Drama in the social studies and common core : First the apple, then the core / Thomas Turner
  • Climbing the common core beanstalk with primary sources / Jeremiah Clabough
  • Seeing is believing: Visual primary sources make wide-eyed learners / Alicia Laffoon and Penny Boyd
  • "my life was hard and i had no money in my pocket" : Doing historical research with oral history / Gail Hickey
  • Get cooking with multimedia social studies and the common core / Lance McConkey
  • Connecting the economic way of thinking to the common core / Ashley S. Harrison, J. R. Clark, and Mark C. Schug
  • Teaching geography education within a common core framework / Kenneth T. Caranor
  • Citizenship education : The common core meets the common good / Jeremiah Clabough and Thomas Turner.