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" If this is social studies, why isn't it boring? / "
edited by Stephanie Steffey, Wendy J. Hood.
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BL
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954076
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b708446
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If this is social studies, why isn't it boring? /\ edited by Stephanie Steffey, Wendy J. Hood.
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| Publication Statement
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York, Me. :: Stenhouse Publishers,, ©1994.
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1 online resource (xxx, 216 pages) :: illustrations
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1571108246
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: 9781571108241
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1571100032
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9781571100030
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-214).
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| Contents
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If this is history, why isn't it boring? / Janet Allen -- Voice for indigenous youth: literature for adolescents / Heather Blair -- Teacher, artist, lawyer, kids: cycles of collaboration and the holocaust / Leslie Kahn, Paul Fisher and Dana Pitt -- Constructing knowledge through multiple perspectives: sixth graders as investigators / Elizabeth Noll -- Creating a learning environment that invites connections / Sandy Kaser -- Learning that keeps on going: the power of literature in social studies / Sheila Hofstedt -- Theme cycles through the eyes of a student teacher / Meegan J. Gliner -- Developing voice in the democratic classroom / Suzanne SooHoo and Brenda Brown -- "Did they know he had slaves when they elected him?" Young children can ask powerful questions / Wendy J. Hood -- All together now: engagement, collaboration, and problem solving in the multi-age classroom / Janet Nelson -- Map-making and neighborhood exploration in a multi-age classroom / Diana Mazzuchi -- Reading for information with young children / Robin Campbell -- "Los Niñitos están muy preocupados por la guerra": the Persian Gulf War in a whole language kindergarten in Puerto Rico / Ruth J. Sáez Vega -- Exploring historical and multicultural perspectives through inquiry / Kathleen Crawford [and others] -- Holding Martin's hand: connecting to history through storytelling / Marni Schwartz.
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The provocative title of this book plays on a too-familiar response from teachers and students alike. But now many teachers have begun to seek an approach to social studies that takes account of the ways children learn and that builds on their own knowledge and strengths. The authors in this book have found ways to do this. Wendy Hood writes in the Introduction that they have ". . . not only rediscovered social studies education in general, they have also found themselves exploring the many disciplines of the social sciences that combine to make social studies ... The issues of the disciplin.
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Social sciences-- Study and teaching (Elementary)-- United States.
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EDUCATION-- Teaching Methods Materials-- Social Science.
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Social sciences-- Study and teaching (Elementary)
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United States.
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372.83/0973
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LB1584.I4 1994eb
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Hood, Wendy J.
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Steffey, Stephanie,1947-
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