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Instructor’s Guide
for
Teaching Elementary Social Studies:
What Every Teacher Should Know
By:
James A. Duplass
Houghton Mifflin Company, Copyright 2004
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The purpose of this brief Guide is to assist you in making the most use of
Teaching Elementary Social Studies: What Every Teacher Should Know, and the
accompanying PowerPoint slides, Word documents, Excel Grade book and website
support elements. This textbook’s website is organized as depicted in the following
graphic organizer at the Houghton Mifflin website
http://college.hmco.com/instructors/index.html:
Houghton Mifflin Website
Teaching Elementary Social Studies: What Every Teacher Should Know!
By
James A. Duplass
Instructor's Site
Preview Site
Clickable Websites
Instructors Guide
Graphic Organizer
Word File
Downloadable
PowerPoint Samples
Links to HMCO Resources
INTASC/NCATE
Assessments
Clickable Websites
Password Protected Site
Downloadable files
Sample Syllabus
Graphic Organizers
List of Assignments with Descriptions
Sample Exam
PowerPoints
Downloadable and Winzipped
Sample Excel Grade Book
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Preview Site
This Instructor’s Guide, sample PowerPoint files, INTASC/NCATE
correlations, and clickable Websites are available to faculty considering adoption of this
textbook at the Preview site. Upon adoption of the text, professors will receive a
password to access the entire website. Specifically, the Preview Site contains:
1. This Instructor’s Guide
2. PowerPoint Files
a. Sample Syllabus
b. Topic 1: What is Social Studies Education?
c. Topic 2: A Practical Framework
d. Topic 3: Expanding Communities & Core Knowledge
e. Topic 4: Multicultural Education
3. INTASC and NCATE assessment information and text correlation
This section includes a table that correlates the 10 INTASC Standards to
the Topics and Assignments found in the text.
4. Clickable Websites
a. All websites, ERIC documents, and NCSS Policy Statements included in
the textbook
b. Additional websites that are not included in the textbook
Instructor’s Site
Call the Houghton Mifflin Faculty Services Center at 1-800-733-1717 or contact your
local sale representative for your password to the full Instructor’s site.
In the password protected part of the Instructor’s site, you’ll find the Word files,
the Excel Grade book, and the PowerPoint files. These can all be downloaded by opening
and copying them to you your hard drive. The PowerPoint files can be individually
copied or downloaded as a group using WinZip and posting to your hard drive. In
addition, you have access to over 500 clickable Websites organized by the Topics in the
textbook.
Professor’s Entry Point
Go to http://college.hmco.com/instructors/index.html and select this text under the
‘Curriculum and Instruction’ listing of textbook websites.
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Word Files
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Instructor’s Guide
Sample Syllabus
Graphic Organizers
List of Assignments with Descriptions
Sample Final Exam
Sample Syllabus
The syllabus is based on the textbook and the undergraduate course, Elementary
School Social Studies Methods, that is taught at the University of South Florida (USF). It
is a three-credit course offered one day a week for 2 1/2 hours between 16 and 18
meetings.
USF has NCATE accredited Initial Certification programs at both the
undergraduate and graduate levels. This textbook is used for both the undergraduate and
graduate courses. There is a section of 100 undergraduate students each semester at the
Tampa Campus taught with the assistance of a Teaching Assistant. The graduate sections
and sections at the regional campuses typically enroll 30 students.
Suggestions:
1. Insert the personal information into the sample syllabus or incorporate parts of the
document into your existing syllabus.
2. Review the assignments (see following Assignments) and decide which one’s you
will use and which one’s need to be modified and given more particulars like
(page length limitations, etc.)
3. Modify the Course Sequence based on your number of meetings, topics you plan
to cover in class and when the assignments you will require will be due.
4. Modify
a. Attendance Policy
b. Professional Standards Policy
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c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
Quality of Work Standard
Honor Policy
Grading Policy
400 or 500 (if you give the final exam) Point Grade System
Personal Information Form
Graphic Organizers
The Graphic Organizers from the Appendix are reproduced in Word format for
downloading by students and the instructor. The Word documents that can be
downloaded have placeholders so that they can be easily completed in a typed form
using Word.
Suggestions:
1. Have students download the Graphic Organizers and print out a set. The Sample
Syllabus requires students to download and/or duplicate the Graphic Organizers
and bring them to each class for possible use.
2. Download a set of Graphic Organizers for your use as transparencies in class.
List of Assignments with Descriptions
There are 67 assignments, far too many for students to complete in a semester,
although I would argue each one is valuable. All are product assessments and most are
Austenitic Assessments.
You are provided a Word file of the List of Assignments with Descriptions. This
file includes not only the title but also the complete description of the task that appears in
the textbook. It is provided as a Word document should you want to cut and paste or
modify the assignments and include it with your syllabus. You may also want to add the
assignments descriptions that you will require to the PowerPoint slides by cutting and
pasting from this Word file.
As an example, Assignment 31.1: Lesson Plan for Heroes or Community was
designed as a culminating class assignment that would be due at the last class meeting.
However, if you prefer, Assignments 11.1 through 16.1 which are based on the traditional
social studies disciplines could be used as the culminating class assignment as instead by
making modifications to make the assignment similar to Assignment 31.1.
Suggestions:
1. Decide which assignments you want students to complete:
a. Students can complete the assignment as a prerequisite to a class
meeting, so you know they have read the material that you plan to
develop. Some of the Assignments like Assignment 8.1: Myers Briggs
Personality Type is designed to be completed prior to the class and
used by the teacher in class.
b. In-class Assignments will depend on how much you prefer to model
active learning. Assignment 1.1: What is Social Studies? is designed
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to be undertaken in the first class meeting when the students still do
not have their books.
c. Following a class meeting, you can give assignments in which the
class topics are developed and the students apply the ideas. Many of
these can be In-class Assignments if that is your personal preference.
2. Decide which assignments you want to modify. For NCATE accreditation
and job-hunting purposes, we have students prepare Portfolios. The Sample
Syllabus assumes that the assignments that are Authentic Assessments would
be created as a high quality product that would be included in a student’s
portfolio to be shown a potential employer.
3. Establish your criteria for assignments as to:
a. Page length
b. Typed or hand written (particularly the Graphic Organizers)
c. Double or single spaced
d. Etc.
and revise the Sample Syllabus and PowerPoints to reflect the changes.
4. Sample Rubric. The following Rubric appears in the textbook and it is
specific to Assignment 31.1. However, it is included in the PowerPoint
Syllabus file should you want to use it as a general standard rubric for all the
Product Assessments in the textbook.
5.
College Level Rubric
Percent
10
Task
Use of Headings
from the Social Studies Lesson Concept Organizer, Reading
Options, and Instructional Sequence
20
10
20
10
10
10
Completeness and Detail
Logical Sequence
Creativity in Selection of Content, Resources, and
Strategies
Use of Professional Terms and Ideas from This Text
Attainment of Goals
Presentation and Aesthetics:
It must be typed, single-spaced, and no more than four pages
long, excluding graphic organizers, which should always appear
as they would at the end of a lesson (completed) or other
attachments like maps, etc.
10
100
Grammar and Punctuation
Total
Sample Final Exam
The sample final exam has 100 True False/Multiple Choice questions with the
answers in BLUE font.
Suggestions:
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1. When printed out on a laser printer in black and white, the blue is not usually
noticeable. However, for the test that will be duplicated for the students, I
suggest you duplicate FinalExam.doc and create FinalExamKey.doc. Then
enter FinalExam.doc, highlight the text, and change the font to all black.
2. After each class meeting, it is my practice to develop about 5 questions: 3 that
come from the reading and 2 that would likely be known only if the student
attended class and was attentive. These serve as the basis for creating the final
exam.
PowerPoint Files
There are 60 PowerPoint files – one for each Topic, plus the Sample Syllabus and
Conclusion. Each of the PowerPoint files contain material taken directly from the text,
including the:
1. Titles and Headings in each Topic
2. Key Concepts
3. Teacher Tips
4. Quotes for Reflection
5. The Title of the Assignments
6. Charts & Diagrams
7. Key Questions
8. Internet Sites
9. Answers to questions that do not appear in the book such as the answers for
Topic 24’s Map Quiz
10. Completed Graphic Organizers like the one required in Assignment 2.2: Web of
Social Studies.
In addition, some PowerPoint files include a Classroom Lesson. These are
typically used to demonstrate or model a concept or approach that can be used in social
studies education. Sometimes the content is grade-level appropriate to college students
(See the Legal Education Case Study in Topic 16, as an example) and students are asked
to infer how the content can be applied to elementary grade-level students. In other
cases, the students are asked to pretend they are elementary school-aged students and
asked to complete a task (See Topic 46 Concept Organizers, as an example).
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Some files have supplemental materials to assist you in developing topics. As an
example, in Topic 24 Creating and Using Maps, there are a series of slides that include
maps and diagrams from the Internet that illustrate the answers to the map quiz. In Topic
2: A Practical Framework, the PowerPoints include placeholder Internet Address of an
image that you can download into your personal set of PowerPoints. The Placeholder
approach was used when copyright regulations required that you download an image
from the Internet for use in the classroom.
Suggestions:
This textbook was written with the idea that students are capable of reading the
Topic and understanding it, so that the teacher is free to develop ideas that go beyond the
text or illuminate the ideas through applications and modeling.
1. Decide which of the Topics you will develop in class.
2. Add your unique insights on the Topics by creating additional PowerPoint
slides either as additional Classroom Lessons or expanded development of
your existing classroom lectures, modeling and demonstrations.
NOTE: The PowerPoint and Word files are copyright protected and may only be
used or duplicated by professors who have adopted the textbook and only in the
semester in which the textbook is in use.
Sample Grade Book - Excel File
The Grade Book is based on the sample Syllabus. It includes fields for: first and
last name, PIN number (if you want to post grades on an anonymous basis), extra points
such as participation, the Assignments. The program provides an automatic calculation of
the points earned and a percentage by totaling individual scores for each assignment.
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Clickable Websites
The Houghton Mifflin website for this textbook has a link to every website
included in the text. In addition, so that we could keep the textbook length and price as
reasonable as possible for your students, we have included on the website over 100
additional Internet resources that were not included in the textbook. As an example, in
the Topic 11 History Constructs, there are about 60 websites in the book. However, the
Houghton Mifflin website for this text has over 50 additional history related websites.
The weblinks are organized in the order of appearance in the text, under the Topic
headings starting with the Professor’s Preface.
 The Websites that appear in the textbook will have the titles in GREEN
font.
 The Websites that are only included on the website are in RED font.
 When a Website is changed, due either to its removal from the Internet or
other substantial changes, the link will be BLACK font. Where
appropriate, a new link will be placed next to it in BLUE.
A clickable table of Topic #’s is provided so that you can easily jump to the Topic
you want.
Suggestion. Go to the Clickable Website section of textbook website and save the URL as
one of your favorites.
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Students’ Website
Students have access to the same Graphic Organizer Word file as the instructor
so that they can print out the Graphic Organizers. Students have access to the same
Clickable Websites as the instructor, as well.
In addition, we offer links to other extensive Houghton Mifflin Social Studies
web resources: including the HMCo. School Division website for elementary social
studies teachers, and the McDougal Littell website for secondary social studies teachers.
Both of these sites offer rich resources for students taking this course.
Students Entry Point
Students should go to http://college.hmco.com/students/index.html and jump to the
textbook website for this text.
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Conclusion
I hope you find this book and these teaching resources helpful. If you encounter
any problems or have suggestions, please contacting your local Houghton Mifflin Sales
Representative or call the Faculty Services Center at 1-800-733-1717. This is also the
number to call for your password.
If you have any suggestions or comments, you are also welcome to contact me at
Duplass@tempest.coedu.usf.edu.
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