New Resource for Elementary Social Studies Teachers
NCSS has just published an important book on social studies education in the elementary grades, Becoming Integrated Thinkers: Case Studies in Elementary Social Studies, edited by Linda Bennett and Elizabeth R. Hinde.
This book is ideally suited for NCSS members who teach the elementary grades, as well as all who are concerned with the marginalization of social studies at the elementary levels.
Even at a time when social studies is being curtailed in elementary schools, it is still possible to teach social studies very well through a strategy of effective integration. The contributors outline strategies for achieving this goal, and present case studies of successful integration at different elementary grade levels.
The book includes model lessons that advance the objectives of the recently published C3 Framework, as well as those of the national social studies standards and the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy.