Social Studies and the Young Learner January/February 2017
Social Studies and the Young Learner January/February 2017
Volume:29
Num:3
ON THE COVER: Climate change is a current event. Staff from the Office of the Superintendent and Ventura Fish and Wildlife Office with students at Bernice Curren School in Oxnard, California, celebrate their new Schoolyard Habitat. They replaced their water-guzzling grass front lawn with native, drought tolerant plants to save water, and also to create habitat for native pollinators like the Monarch butterfly, a species whose numbers have declined in recent years. Full image on Pullout P-4. Photo by Ashley Spratt/USFWS available at Flickr.com (this image has been lightened from the original)
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Handouts for Studying Current Events
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Teaching Current Events and Media Literacy: Critical Thinking, Effective Communication, and Active Citizenship
Upper elementary students used a variety of research skills to identify and explore current events and issues within their own community. Using an action civics approach, students also developed and enacted a plan to address the issues that their exploration of local current events highlighted.