Instructor’s Manual



Instructor’s Guide

for

Teaching Elementary Social Studies:

What Every Teacher Should Know

By:

James A. Duplass

Houghton Mifflin Company, Copyright 2004

The purpose of this brief Guide is to assist you in making the most use of Teaching Elementary Social Studies: What Every Teacher Should Know, and the accompanying PowerPoint slides, Word documents, Excel Grade book and website support elements. This textbook’s website is organized as depicted in the following graphic organizer at the Houghton Mifflin website :

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Preview Site

This Instructor’s Guide, sample PowerPoint files, INTASC/NCATE correlations, and clickable Websites are available to faculty considering adoption of this textbook at the Preview site. Upon adoption of the text, professors will receive a password to access the entire website. Specifically, the Preview Site contains:

1. This Instructor’s Guide

PowerPoint Files

a. Sample Syllabus

b. Topic 1: What is Social Studies Education?

c. Topic 2: A Practical Framework

d. Topic 3: Expanding Communities & Core Knowledge

e. Topic 4: Multicultural Education

2. INTASC and NCATE assessment information and text correlation

This section includes a table that correlates the 10 INTASC Standards to the Topics and Assignments found in the text.

3. Clickable Websites

a. All websites, ERIC documents, and NCSS Policy Statements included in the textbook

b. Additional websites that are not included in the textbook

Instructor’s Site

Call the Houghton Mifflin Faculty Services Center at 1-800-733-1717 or contact your local sale representative for your password to the full Instructor’s site.

In the password protected part of the Instructor’s site, you’ll find the Word files, the Excel Grade book, and the PowerPoint files. These can all be downloaded by opening and copying them to you your hard drive. The PowerPoint files can be individually copied or downloaded as a group using WinZip and posting to your hard drive. In addition, you have access to over 500 clickable Websites organized by the Topics in the textbook.

Professor’s Entry Point

Go to and select this text under the ‘Curriculum and Instruction’ listing of textbook websites.

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Word Files

1. Instructor’s Guide

2. Sample Syllabus

3. Graphic Organizers

4. List of Assignments with Descriptions

5. Sample Final Exam

Sample Syllabus

The syllabus is based on the textbook and the undergraduate course, Elementary School Social Studies Methods, that is taught at the University of South Florida (USF). It is a three-credit course offered one day a week for 2 1/2 hours between 16 and 18 meetings.

USF has NCATE accredited Initial Certification programs at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. This textbook is used for both the undergraduate and graduate courses. There is a section of 100 undergraduate students each semester at the Tampa Campus taught with the assistance of a Teaching Assistant. The graduate sections and sections at the regional campuses typically enroll 30 students.

Suggestions:

1. Insert the personal information into the sample syllabus or incorporate parts of the document into your existing syllabus.

2. Review the assignments (see following Assignments) and decide which one’s you will use and which one’s need to be modified and given more particulars like (page length limitations, etc.)

3. Modify the Course Sequence based on your number of meetings, topics you plan to cover in class and when the assignments you will require will be due.

4. Modify

a. Attendance Policy

b. Professional Standards Policy

c. Quality of Work Standard

d. Honor Policy

e. Grading Policy

f. 400 or 500 (if you give the final exam) Point Grade System

g. Personal Information Form

Graphic Organizers

The Graphic Organizers from the Appendix are reproduced in Word format for downloading by students and the instructor. The Word documents that can be downloaded have placeholders so that they can be easily completed in a typed form using Word.

Suggestions:

1. Have students download the Graphic Organizers and print out a set. The Sample Syllabus requires students to download and/or duplicate the Graphic Organizers and bring them to each class for possible use.

2. Download a set of Graphic Organizers for your use as transparencies in class.

List of Assignments with Descriptions

There are 67 assignments, far too many for students to complete in a semester, although I would argue each one is valuable. All are product assessments and most are Austenitic Assessments.

You are provided a Word file of the List of Assignments with Descriptions. This file includes not only the title but also the complete description of the task that appears in the textbook. It is provided as a Word document should you want to cut and paste or modify the assignments and include it with your syllabus. You may also want to add the assignments descriptions that you will require to the PowerPoint slides by cutting and pasting from this Word file.

As an example, Assignment 31.1: Lesson Plan for Heroes or Community was designed as a culminating class assignment that would be due at the last class meeting. However, if you prefer, Assignments 11.1 through 16.1 which are based on the traditional social studies disciplines could be used as the culminating class assignment as instead by making modifications to make the assignment similar to Assignment 31.1.

Suggestions:

1. Decide which assignments you want students to complete:

a. Students can complete the assignment as a prerequisite to a class meeting, so you know they have read the material that you plan to develop. Some of the Assignments like Assignment 8.1: Myers Briggs Personality Type is designed to be completed prior to the class and used by the teacher in class.

b. In-class Assignments will depend on how much you prefer to model active learning. Assignment 1.1: What is Social Studies? is designed to be undertaken in the first class meeting when the students still do not have their books.

c. Following a class meeting, you can give assignments in which the class topics are developed and the students apply the ideas. Many of these can be In-class Assignments if that is your personal preference.

2. Decide which assignments you want to modify. For NCATE accreditation and job-hunting purposes, we have students prepare Portfolios. The Sample Syllabus assumes that the assignments that are Authentic Assessments would be created as a high quality product that would be included in a student’s portfolio to be shown a potential employer.

3. Establish your criteria for assignments as to:

a. Page length

b. Typed or hand written (particularly the Graphic Organizers)

c. Double or single spaced

d. Etc.

and revise the Sample Syllabus and PowerPoints to reflect the changes.

4. Sample Rubric. The following Rubric appears in the textbook and it is specific to Assignment 31.1. However, it is included in the PowerPoint Syllabus file should you want to use it as a general standard rubric for all the Product Assessments in the textbook.

5.

College Level Rubric

|Percent |Task |

|10 |Use of Headings |

| |from the Social Studies Lesson Concept Organizer, Reading Options, and Instructional Sequence|

|20 |Completeness and Detail |

|10 |Logical Sequence |

|20 |Creativity in Selection of Content, Resources, and Strategies |

|10 |Use of Professional Terms and Ideas from This Text |

|10 |Attainment of Goals |

|10 |Presentation and Aesthetics: |

| |It must be typed, single-spaced, and no more than four pages long, excluding graphic |

| |organizers, which should always appear as they would at the end of a lesson (completed) or |

| |other attachments like maps, etc. |

|10 |Grammar and Punctuation |

|100 |Total |

Sample Final Exam

The sample final exam has 100 True False/Multiple Choice questions with the answers in BLUE font.

Suggestions:

1. When printed out on a laser printer in black and white, the blue is not usually noticeable. However, for the test that will be duplicated for the students, I suggest you duplicate FinalExam.doc and create FinalExamKey.doc. Then enter FinalExam.doc, highlight the text, and change the font to all black.

2. After each class meeting, it is my practice to develop about 5 questions: 3 that come from the reading and 2 that would likely be known only if the student attended class and was attentive. These serve as the basis for creating the final exam.

PowerPoint Files

There are 60 PowerPoint files – one for each Topic, plus the Sample Syllabus and Conclusion. Each of the PowerPoint files contain material taken directly from the text, including the:

1. Titles and Headings in each Topic

2. Key Concepts

3. Teacher Tips

4. Quotes for Reflection

5. The Title of the Assignments

6. Charts & Diagrams

7. Key Questions

8. Internet Sites

9. Answers to questions that do not appear in the book such as the answers for Topic 24’s Map Quiz

10. Completed Graphic Organizers like the one required in Assignment 2.2: Web of Social Studies.

In addition, some PowerPoint files include a Classroom Lesson. These are typically used to demonstrate or model a concept or approach that can be used in social studies education. Sometimes the content is grade-level appropriate to college students (See the Legal Education Case Study in Topic 16, as an example) and students are asked to infer how the content can be applied to elementary grade-level students. In other cases, the students are asked to pretend they are elementary school-aged students and asked to complete a task (See Topic 46 Concept Organizers, as an example).

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Some files have supplemental materials to assist you in developing topics. As an example, in Topic 24 Creating and Using Maps, there are a series of slides that include maps and diagrams from the Internet that illustrate the answers to the map quiz. In Topic 2: A Practical Framework, the PowerPoints include placeholder Internet Address of an image that you can download into your personal set of PowerPoints. The Placeholder approach was used when copyright regulations required that you download an image from the Internet for use in the classroom.

Suggestions:

This textbook was written with the idea that students are capable of reading the Topic and understanding it, so that the teacher is free to develop ideas that go beyond the text or illuminate the ideas through applications and modeling.

1. Decide which of the Topics you will develop in class.

2. Add your unique insights on the Topics by creating additional PowerPoint slides either as additional Classroom Lessons or expanded development of your existing classroom lectures, modeling and demonstrations.

NOTE: The PowerPoint and Word files are copyright protected and may only be used or duplicated by professors who have adopted the textbook and only in the semester in which the textbook is in use.

Sample Grade Book - Excel File

The Grade Book is based on the sample Syllabus. It includes fields for: first and last name, PIN number (if you want to post grades on an anonymous basis), extra points such as participation, the Assignments. The program provides an automatic calculation of the points earned and a percentage by totaling individual scores for each assignment.

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Clickable Websites

The Houghton Mifflin website for this textbook has a link to every website included in the text. In addition, so that we could keep the textbook length and price as reasonable as possible for your students, we have included on the website over 100 additional Internet resources that were not included in the textbook. As an example, in the Topic 11 History Constructs, there are about 60 websites in the book. However, the Houghton Mifflin website for this text has over 50 additional history related websites.

The weblinks are organized in the order of appearance in the text, under the Topic headings starting with the Professor’s Preface.

■ The Websites that appear in the textbook will have the titles in GREEN font.

■ The Websites that are only included on the website are in RED font.

■ When a Website is changed, due either to its removal from the Internet or other substantial changes, the link will be BLACK font. Where appropriate, a new link will be placed next to it in BLUE.

A clickable table of Topic #’s is provided so that you can easily jump to the Topic you want.

Suggestion. Go to the Clickable Website section of textbook website and save the URL as one of your favorites.

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Students’ Website

Students have access to the same Graphic Organizer Word file as the instructor so that they can print out the Graphic Organizers. Students have access to the same Clickable Websites as the instructor, as well.

In addition, we offer links to other extensive Houghton Mifflin Social Studies web resources: including the HMCo. School Division website for elementary social studies teachers, and the McDougal Littell website for secondary social studies teachers. Both of these sites offer rich resources for students taking this course.

Students Entry Point

Students should go to and jump to the textbook website for this text.

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Conclusion

I hope you find this book and these teaching resources helpful. If you encounter any problems or have suggestions, please contacting your local Houghton Mifflin Sales Representative or call the Faculty Services Center at 1-800-733-1717. This is also the number to call for your password.

If you have any suggestions or comments, you are also welcome to contact me at Duplass@tempest.coedu.usf.edu.

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