Using Inquiry to Prepare Students for College, Career, and Civic Life: Elementary Grades
Using Inquiry to Prepare Students for College, Career, and Civic Life: Elementary Grades
Welcome to a special set of online methods texts designed to support your construction of inquiry learning through primary source documents in social studies education! This elementary edition supports methods instruction for elementary-level classrooms. The secondary edition (a separate volume) supports methods instruction tailored for the middle and secondary grades. Both texts were generously supported by a Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) grant from the Library of Congress. NCSS is a proud member of the TPS Consortium, which is comprised of educational organizations nationwide to support high quality teaching and learning using the vast and free public collections of the Library. We acknowledge the significance of the Library of Congress in supporting the needs of methods instructors and pre-service teachers nationwide by providing free access to its primary source materials, which are found throughout these chapters.
The following reference information should be used in the citation of this book: Waring, S. M. (Ed.). (2023). Using Inquiry to Prepare Students for College, Career, and Civic Life (Elementary Grades). Silver Spring, MD: National Council for the Social Studies.
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Using Inquiry to Prepare Students for College, Career, and Civic Life
Elementary Grades
Edited by Scott M. Waring
Download Full E-BookIntroduction: What is the Source of Inquiry? An Introduction to Social Studies Methods
Lawrence M. Paska, National Council for the Social Studies
Scott M. Waring, University of Central Florida
Chapter 1
Perspectives of the Primary Source Creator, Selector, and Learner
Ken Carano, Western Oregon University
Tina M. Ellsworth, Northwest Missouri State University
Chapter 2
Models of Instruction: Varying Teaching to Support Learners During Inquiry
Jeffery D. Nokes, Brigham Young University
Chapter 3
Why Do We Celebrate the 19th Amendment as the Moment When Women Were Granted the Right to Vote?
Amanda Vickery, University of North Texas
Chapter 4
How Do We Teach Elementary Students to Think Like Historians?
Tammara Purdin, Florida Council for History Education
Chapter 5
For Whom Should America’s Gates Be Open? An Inquiry About Chinese Immigration in the 1800s & Angel Island
Noreen Naseem Rodríguez, University of Colorado Boulder
Chapter 6
Can Symbols Tell Stories?
Tammara Purdin, Florida Council for History Education
Chapter 7
Is Food a Political Weapon? Using Inquiry to Explore the History of African American Farmers
Amanda Vickery, University of North Texas
Chapter 8
How Can Reading Historical Fiction and Nonfiction Books Encourage the Use of Primary Sources?
Tammara Purdin, Florida Council for History Education
Chapter 9
What Does a U.S. Citizen “Look” Like? What Does It Mean to Be Loyal to Your Country? Civics Inquiries About Japanese American Incarceration
Noreen Naseem Rodríguez, University of Colorado Boulder
Chapter 10
What Does It Mean to Be a Good Citizen?
Amanda Vickery, University of North Texas
Chapter 11
Who’s Responsible for the Food on My Plate?
Corey Sell, Metropolitan State University of Denver
Noreen Naseem Rodríguez, University of Colorado Boulder