{"product_id":"notable-books-notable-lessons-putting-social-studies-back-in-the-k-8-curriculum-paperback","title":"Notable Books, Notable Lessons: Putting Social Studies Back in the K-8 Curriculum - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAndrea Libresco\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book provides teachers, librarians, and education methods professors with strategies, lesson plans, and activities that enable them to use literature as a springboard to social studies thematic instruction.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith the amount of time and resources allocated to teaching social studies being significantly reduced, social studies lessons need to be incorporated into other subjects. \u003ci\u003eNotable Books, Notable Lessons: Putting Social Studies Back in the K-8 Curriculum\u003c\/i\u003e offers the tools to teach students social studies concepts that are increasingly relevant and essential in today's diverse, globalized world--lessons that are vital in order to prepare students to think critically and participate in our multicultural democracy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eProviding information that elementary and middle school teachers and librarians, district-level curriculum directors and principals, staff developers, and social studies and literacy methods professors will find extremely useful, this book uses the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS)\/Children's Book Council (CBC)'s current and past lists of Notable Books at the elementary and middle school levels to offer easy-to-follow lesson plans that integrate social studies instruction with reading and language arts. The lesson plans pose compelling questions to facilitate discussion and critical thinking and suggest engaging activities that are connected to the social studies concepts. The book also includes sample student handouts for the selected pieces of literature.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrea S. Libresco\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of social studies education as well as codirector of elementary education and of the minor in civic education at Hofstra University. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJeannette Balantic\u003c\/b\u003e is social studies curriculum coordinator in the Garden City School District in Garden City, NY. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Battenfeld\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of humanities at Wheelock College in Boston, MA.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 242\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 10.9 x 8.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 21, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47406839529650,"sku":"9781440840791","price":81.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/c0446adeb01f418d5126a69dfcef2d50.webp?v=1778207847","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/notable-books-notable-lessons-putting-social-studies-back-in-the-k-8-curriculum-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}