1. Seeing the Whole Through Social Studies
Introduction
And
Chapter 1

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Introduction
Written about a 5th grade class
Standards
Not stand alone topics
Aligned with standards and other documents, e.g., GPS
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Head
Hand
Heart
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Integrated Learning
OK for 4th and 5th
Built around language arts
Stand alone at 6th, 7th and 8th
Seven Blind Mice
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Chapter 1
Multiple Intelligences
Howard Gardner
Frames of Mind
8 pigments on a painter’s palate
Fosters multicultural and global education
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Flow
Flow occurs in the classroom when the day’s activities are a cohesive and productive whole.
Creating a newspaper
Writing a letter to a historical character
Pocahontas writing her father
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Values Time
Read a historical novel
Write about it
Compare with other data
Learning is a process….
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Time
Key factor in today’s classroom
Finding time to teach just social studies after tracking reading, writing, listening, speaking and viewing is futile.
So do it together!
Combining language arts and social studies provides breadth and depth.
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Broad topics
Teach with themes
Conflict and cooperation
Continuity and change
Community
Power
Unity
Diversity
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Non-fiction books
Notable Trade Books for Young People
10873
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11. Aligning literacy connections
Reading and writing – READ 4252
Writing, listening, speaking and viewing – this class
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