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Social Studies Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites

20 Instructional Strategies That Engage the Brain

By: Marcia L. Tate

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Grade Level: K-12
ISBN: 9781412998758
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2011
Page Count: 192
Publication date: December 01, 2011

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Bring social studies to life in your classroom!

Best-selling author Marcia L. Tate brings her trademark "dendrite-growing" teaching strategies to this practitioner-friendly collection of brain-compatible methods for engaging K–12 students in social studies. Included are 20 proven strategies and more than 200 grade-leveled activities for applying them. Teachers will find concrete ways to integrate national social studies content standards into their curriculum with visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and tactile experiences that maximize retention, including:

Project-based and problem-based instruction
Storytelling, music, and humor
Graphic organizers, semantic maps, and word webs
Internet projects

This book provides sample lesson plans and a wealth of examples that demonstrate how to apply these classroom-tested strategies to the 10 themes of social studies. The text also challenges teachers to creatively plan and deliver their own unforgettable lessons. Among the many benefits your students is that they will remember what they've learned and apply it to their lives—the true goal of education.

Key features

Short, focused, grade-specific activities within each chapter.
Integration of the activities with the National Curriculum Standards for Social Studies.
Brief explanations of each of the general strategies and the research supporting them.
Based on research and theory while maintaining a completely accessible, teacher-friendly style.

Author(s)

Marcia L. Tate

Marcia L. Tate, EdD, is the former executive director of professional development for the DeKalb County School System in Decatur, Georgia. During her thirty-year career with the district, she has been a classroom teacher, reading specialist, language arts coordinator, and staff development executive director.

Marcia is currently an educational consultant and has taught over 500,000 administrators, teachers, parents, and business and community leaders throughout the world. She is the author of the eight books in the best-selling Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites series and four additional books: Formative Assessment in a Brain-Compatible Classroom: How Do We Really Know They’re Learning?, 100 Brain-Friendly Lessons for Unforgettable Teaching and Learning K–8, and 100 Brain-Friendly Lessons for Unforgettable Teaching and Learning 9–12, and her latest book, Healthy Teachers, Happy Classrooms that is designed to address both the personal and professional lives of all educators. Participants in her workshops refer to them as some of the best ones they have ever experienced since Marcia uses the twenty strategies outlined in her books to actively engage her audiences.

Marcia received her bachelor’s degree in psychology and elementary education from Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. She earned her master’s degree in remedial reading from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, her specialist degree in educational leadership from Georgia State University, and her doctorate in educational leadership from Clark Atlanta University.

Marcia is married to Tyrone Tate and is the proud mother of three children: Jennifer, Jessica, and Christopher, and nine grandchildren: Christian, Aidan, Maxwell, Aaron, Roman, Shiloh, Aya, Noah, and Alyssa.

Marcia and her husband own the company Developing Minds, Inc. and can be contacted by calling the company at (770) 918-5039, emailing her at marciata@ bellsouth.net, or by visiting her website at www.developingmindsinc.com. You can also follow her on Twitter and Instagram at @DrMarciaTate.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Introduction

Strategy 1: Brainstorming and Discussion

Strategy 2: Drawing and Artwork

Strategy 3: Field Trips

Strategy 4: Games

Strategy 5: Graphic Organizers, Semantic Maps, and Word Webs

Strategy 6: Humor

Strategy 7: Manipulatives, Experiments, Labs, and Models

Strategy 8: Metaphors, Analogies, and Similes

Strategy 9: Mnemonic Devices

Strategy 10: Movement

Strategy 11: Music, Rhythm, Rhyme, and Rap

Strategy 12: Project-Based and Problem-Based Instruction

Strategy 13: Reciprocal Teaching and Cooperative Learning

Strategy 14: Role Plays, Drama, Pantomimes, and Charades

Strategy 15: Storytelling

Strategy 16: Technology

Strategy 17: Visualization and Guided Imagery

Strategy 18: Visuals

Strategy 19: Work-Study and Apprenticeships

Strategy 20: Writing and Journals

Resource: Brain-Compatible Lesson Design

Bibliography

Index

Reviews

"This book highlights strategies teachers can use to promote deeper understanding of social studies content. When you teach for understanding, the end result will be improved test scores."

Cathy Hix, K-12 Social Studies Specialist
Arlington Public Schools, VA

“Social Studies Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites provides current best practices for using engaging activities and big-picture questions to hook kids on the study of history and the social sciences. I’d recommend it to all aspiring history teachers!”

Kerry Dunne, K-12 Social Studies Director
Arlington Public Schools, MA

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