Social Studies Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites
20 Instructional Strategies That Engage the Brain

Description
Bring social studies to life in your classroom!Best-selling author Marcia L. Tate brings her trademark "dendrite-growing" teaching strategies to this practitioner-friendly collection of brain-compatible methods for engaging K-12 students in social studies. Included are 20 proven strategies and more than 200 grade-leveled activities for applying them. Teachers will find concrete ways to integrate national social studies content standards into their curriculum with visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and tactile experiences that maximize retention, including: Project-based and problem-based instructionStorytelling, music, and humorGraphic organizers, semantic maps, and word webs Internet projectsThis book provides sample lesson plans and a wealth of examples that demonstrate how to apply these classroom-tested strategies to the 10 themes of social studies. The text also challenges teachers to creatively plan and deliver their own unforgettable lessons. Among the many benefits your students is that they will remember what they've learned and apply it to their lives-the true goal of education.
About this Author
Marcia L. Tate, Ed.D., is the former executive director of professional development for the DeKalb County School System, Decatur, Georgia and has been presenting to adult audiences for more than 25 years. During her 30-year career with the school district, she has been a classroom teacher, reading specialist, language arts coordinator, and staff development executive director. She received the Distinguished Staff Development Award for the State of Georgia, and her department was chosen to receive the Exemplary Program Award for the state. She is currently an edcuational consultant and has taught more than 350,000 administrators, teachers, parents, and business and community leaders throughout the world. She is the author of the following five bestsellers: Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites: 20 Instructional Strategies that Engage the Brain<.i>, "Sit & Get" Won't Grow Dendrites: 20 Professional Learning Strategies That Engage the Adult Brain, Reading and Language Arts Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites, Shouting Won't Grow Dendrites, Mathematics Worksheets Won't Grow Dendrites, Science Worksheets Won't Grow Dendtrites, and Social Studies Worksheets Won't Grow Dendrites.
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