This teacher-friendly resource provides practical arts-based strategies for classroom teachers to use in teaching social studies content. Overview information and model lessons are provided for each strategy and ideas are provided for grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12. The strategies addressed within the book allow teachers to make social studies instruction come alive and best meet students' needs.

This teacher-friendly resource provides practical arts-based strategies for classroom teachers to use in teaching social studies content. Overview information and model lessons are provided for each strategy and ideas are provided for grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12. The strategies addressed within the book allow teachers to make social studies instruction come alive and best meet students' needs.

This graduate project discusses the importance of art integration within elementary social studies curriculum. This project highlights the need for integration to drive engagement and understanding of the social studies content, rather than the traditional teaching method approach. The project shows how the use of art curriculum can be co-equally taught to boost student content knowledge in art concepts and social studies concepts. This project explores how first-hand experience can play an important role in a student's ability to make content relevant to their own lives by building their understanding. The idea is that experiences with primary sources and different outlets of art, such as dance, music, fine art, and theater, allow for students to become involved with the lesson, taking a broader perspective on the explored topic or idea. The project points out why there has been a decline in social studies and arts education, and how there is a slow moving push to get both subjects back into education. The decline in both subjects' exposure to students and the push for more exposure led to the developed lesson series on a fourth grade social studies unit. The ten-lesson series outlined in the final chapter of the project is intended to help educate and assist fourth grade elementary teachers to begin using proper content integration within their own classrooms.

Use the arts to excite, inspire, and motivate students in social studies class! This book provides useful strategies to help teachers integrate creative movement, drama, music, poetry, storytelling, and visual arts in social studies topics. These teacher-friendly strategies bring social studies to life while building students’ critical thinking skills and creativity.

Integrating Language Arts and Social Studies: 25 Strategies for Inquiry-Based Learning focuses on social science techniques that integrate language arts with an inquiry-based approach to social science. Each strategy incorporates methods for meeting the needs of English language learners, as well as students with special needs. The text links instructional strategies to the standards, and provides concrete methods to successfully integrate language arts into the social studies curriculum.

Outlines inter-disciplinary lesson plans which teach social studies concepts through the study of art.