Social Studies Unchained: A View from the Elementary School Classroom.

Zarnowski, Myra

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ERIC Number: EJ407815

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1989

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Social Studies Unchained: A View from the Elementary School Classroom.

Zarnowski, Myra

Social Science Record, v26 n2 p30-31 Fall 1989

Considers biography-centered learning as a model for teaching social studies in elementary school. Provides a sequence of steps and a description of each to help students read and write biography as a knowledge transforming process. Claims students learn to do research and write, both vital to a democratic society. (NL)

Descriptors: Biographies, Citizenship Education, Class Activities, Classrooms, Elementary Education, Elementary Schools, Intermediate Grades, Social Studies, Student Writing Models, Teaching Methods, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher

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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners

Language: English

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