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Buchanan, Lisa Brown; Kemmerer, Caroline; Kaluzny, Joanne; Hill, Rachael – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2018
This article describes a fourth grade project involving elementary students, their teachers, elementary preservice teachers, and university faculty. The project focused on a work of juvenile historical fiction, culminating in social studies lessons that were interdisciplinary. This collaboration between educators was made possible by a…
Descriptors: Novels, Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers
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Heafner, Tina L.; O'Connor, Katherine A.; Groce, Eric C.; Byrd, Sandra; Good, Amy J.; Oldendorf, Sandra; Passe, Jeff; Rock, Tracy – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2007
In this article, the authors emphasize the role of elementary social studies teachers as citizen activists and reformers. The authors call upon all teachers to become AGENTS for change in order to strengthen the role of social studies in elementary schools, to guarantee that all students have an equitable opportunity to learn social studies, and…
Descriptors: Memory, Social Studies, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Curriculum
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Stewart, Loraine Moses – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2004
May 17, 2004 marked the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in the historic school desegregation case, "Oliver L. Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka (KS) et al." After concluding a survey of elementary school teachers about the struggle for school desegregation in the 1950s and 60s, this author found that, in most…
Descriptors: United States History, School Desegregation, Court Litigation, Desegregation Litigation