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Direct linkMacken, Carol T. – Social Studies, 2003
When literature in the form of picture books was introduced to the social studies curriculum in the author's classroom, she wondered what her second-grade students would learn from it. She decided to investigate and ascertain whether the children learned geographic concepts when they were taught through a literature-based approach. Given the…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Textbooks, Picture Books, Geographic Concepts
