Social Studies Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites
20 Instructional Strategies That Engage the Brain
- Marcia L. Tate - Developing Minds, Inc.
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.
"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."
“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!”
The text has a lot of instructional strategies incorporated into one bundle so that pre-service and new teachers do not have to blindly search for this useful information. The text format in paperback is also easy to manipulate in classroom settings which is always a plus.
