Making Time for Social Studies

Implement engaging social studies units

Elementary social studies teachers often struggle to make time to teach social studies. In her book, Rachel Swearengin shows how this can be done in all elementary classrooms with the right tools. Her unit planning process supports teachers as they unpack social studies standards, providing them with strategies and practices specific to social studies that promote students’ participation and lasting interest.

Grades K–5 teachers can use this book to:

• Apply the claim-evidence-reasoning (CER) approach to their assessments
• Employ key practices to ensure an enduring understanding of social studies standards
• Learn primary source analysis strategies to use with students
• Receive completed sample and planning templates for the K–2 and 3–5 grades
• Create their own social studies units and daily lesson plans using their completed planning templates
• Select grade-appropriate primary and secondary sources and understand the use of each