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Frye, Elizabeth M.; Trathen, Woodrow; Wilson, Kelley – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2009
In this article, the authors outline an interdisciplinary unit of study using quality children's literatures, and they describe several instructional strategies and activities for reading and responding to historical fiction and informational texts. This "piratical study" integrates social studies and the language arts. Several social…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, United States History, War, Economic Impact
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Cruz, Barbara C.; Murthy, Shalini A. – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2006
Alternately referred to as historical role-playing, dramatic improvisation, sociodrama, or first-person characterization, role playing is a teaching strategy that often uses official accounts, personal narratives, and diaries to recreate a particular time period, specific event, or breathe life into a character from history. Historical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 4, Teaching Methods, Personal Narratives
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Livingston, Andrea, Ed.; Wirt, John, Ed. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2003
This publication contains a sample of the 44 indicators in "The Condition of Education 2003." The indicators in this publication are numbered sequentially, rather than according to their numbers in the complete edition. The Contents page offers a cross reference between the two publications. Since 1870, the federal government has…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment, Family Characteristics, Poverty