Elementary teachers often struggle to make time to teach social studies. In her book, Rachel Swearengin shows how this can be done in all elementary classrooms with the right tools. Her unit planning process supports teachers as they unpack social studies standards, providing them with strategies and practices specific to social studies that promote students' participation and lasting interest.

Grades K–5 teachers can use this book to:

Apply the claim-evidence-reasoning (CER) approach to their assessments

Employ key practices to ensure an enduring understanding of social studies standards

Learn primary source analysis strategies to use with students

Receive completed sample and planning templates for the K–2 and 3–5 grades

Create their own social studies units and daily lesson plans using their completed planning templates

Select grade-appropriate primary and secondary sources and understand the use of each

Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Step 1—Unpacking Social Studies Standards
Chapter 2: Step 2—Creating Assessments
Chapter 3: Step 3—Choosing and Analyzing Primary Sources
Chapter 4: Step 4—Choosing and Analyzing Secondary Sources
Chapter 5: Turning Your Unit Into Daily Lesson Plans
Epilogue
Appendix A
Appendix B
References and Resources
Index