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Showing posts with label social studies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social studies. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Conference on Teaching Race in the Classroom - Part 2

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In Part 1 of this series of posts I provided an introduction to the  National Museum of African American History and Culture , the site of ...
Monday, July 17, 2017

Conference On Teaching Race in the Classroom - Part 1

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Last week I had the privilege of and honor of spending the entire week at the National Museum of African American History and Culture  for a...
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Monday, September 14, 2015

Constitution Day is Thursday, September 17th

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In the summer of 1787, the Constitutional Convention met in Philadelphia to write a new plan of government for our nation. The Constitution...
Tuesday, May 06, 2014

Biographical Poetry Pairings - César Chavez

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In 2008 the state of Virginia added Cesar Chavez to the standards for history and social science in third grade. Under the heading of civ...
Monday, May 16, 2011

Nonfiction Monday - The Story of Salt

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I love books that explore science and history from different perspectives. For example, I love the notion of learning about animals not by t...
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Monday, April 26, 2010

Nonfiction Monday - Smart-Opedia Junior

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Smart-Opedia Junior: The Amazing Book About Everything , is the perfect book for kids who love to ask questions and their parents. The follo...
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Friday, February 26, 2010

Books for Elementary Science and Social Studies

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You may have noticed that I've been blogging lite the last few weeks. Quite simply, this semester is kicking my *ss. Not only am I swamp...
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Books for Elementary Social Studies - Geography

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Did I mention I'm team teaching this semester? I am still teaching two sections of Integrated Curriculum Methods (pedagogical approaches...
Thursday, January 21, 2010

Book Review - Follow That Map!

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Follow That Map!: A First Look at Mapping Skills , written and illustrated by Scot Ritchie, provides readers with an introduction to map ski...
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Books for Elementary Social Studies - History

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This is the last week my preservice teachers will be posting social studies book reviews at Open Wide, Look Inside . This time around they f...
Monday, November 16, 2009

Books for Elementary Social Studies - Civics

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If you haven't been to Open Wide, Look Inside lately, you're really missing something. In the last few weeks my students have been ...
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Nonfiction Monday - How To Build Your Own Country

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I've been holding on to this book for a while, but since I'm teaching a class tonight on how to teach civics in the elementary class...
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Thursday, November 05, 2009

Books for Elementary Social Studies - Geography

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Last week my preservice teachers posted their reviews of books for teaching economics in the elementary classroom. This week they've fo...
Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Books for Elementary Social Studies - Economics

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Last week my students returned to the task of reading and reviewing books for the elementary classroom, this time with an eye for the social...
Monday, October 26, 2009

Nonfiction Monday - Let It Begin Here!

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While I dutifully studied history and memorized dates, names and places in high school and college, it wasn't my favorite subject. That...
Monday, August 10, 2009

Nonfiction Monday - Pharaoh's Boat

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When I was 13 I began reading Agatha Christie novels. Around the time I read Death on the Nile , my uncle (and godfather) was living and wor...
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Monday, August 03, 2009

Nonfiction Monday - Exploring the Big Numbers of Population

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I've been a trainer for Population Connection for some time now. I like the emphasis their curricular materials place on understanding ...
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