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In the last decade alone, the world has changed in seismic ways as
marriage equality has been ruled on by the supreme court, social
justice issues such as #metoo and BlackLivesMatter have arisen, and
issues of immigration and deportation have come to the forefront of
politics across the globe. Thus, there is a need for an updated
text that shares strategies for combining canonical and young adult
literature that reflects the changes society has - and continues to
- experience. The purpose of our collection is to offer secondary
(6-12) teachers engaging ideas and approaches for pairing young
adult and canonical novels to provide unique examinations of topics
that teaching either text in isolation could not afford. Our
collection does not center canonical texts and most chapters show
how both texts complement each other rather than the young adult
text being only an extension of the canonical. Within each volume,
the chapters are organized chronologically according to the
publication date of the canonical text. The pairings offered in
this collection allow for comparisons in some cases, for extensions
in others, and for critique in all. Volume 2 covers The Canterbury
Tales (1392) through Fallen Angels (1988).
If you are searching for ideas to teach social studies in fun and
meaningful ways, 50 Ways to Teach Social Studies is a book that
provides a plethora of ideas of practical lessons connected to
real-world topics that will save the busy teacher time and effort.
The activities in this book are housed under themes and include
content connections (civics, history, geography, economics),
guiding questions, and literacy connections. From community,
primary sources, and music to food, visual media, and experiential
learning, this book will inspire you to make connections in your
own environment to expand the teaching of social studies.
When Gaby faked a pregnancy to challenge stereotypes, she also
changed her life. A compelling memoir from an inspirational teenage
activist.
Growing up, Gaby Rodriguez was often told she would end up a teen
mom. After all, her mother and her older sisters had gotten
pregnant as teenagers; from an outsider's perspective, it was
practically a family tradition. Gaby had ambitions that didn't
include teen motherhood. But she wondered: how would she be treated
if she "lived down" to others' expectations? Would everyone ignore
the years she put into being a good student and see her as just
another pregnant teen statistic with no future? These questions
sparked Gaby's high school senior project: faking her own pregnancy
to see how her family, friends, and community would react. What she
learned changed her life forever--and made international headlines
in the process.
In "The Pregnancy Project," Gaby details how she was able to fake
her own pregnancy--hiding the truth from even her siblings and
boyfriend's parents--and reveals all that she learned from the
experience. But more than that, Gaby's story is about fighting
stereotypes, and how one girl found the strength to come out from
the shadow of low expectations to forge a bright future for
herself.
Exam board: AQA Level: GCSE Subject: Sociology First teaching:
September 2017 First exams: Summer 2019 Create confident, literate
and well-prepared students with this skills-focused, topic-specific
workbook. - Prepare students to meet the demands of Paper 1 of the
2017 AQA GCSE (9-1) Sociology specification by practising exam
technique and developing literacy skills - Supplement key resources
such as textbooks to adapt easily to existing schemes of work -
Reinforce and apply topic understanding with flexible material for
classwork or revision - Create opportunities for self-directed
learning and assessment with answers to tasks and activities
supplied online
A thrilling new graphic nonfiction series about real FBI cases,
launching with a gripping, minute-by-minute account of the only
unsolved airplane hijacking in the U.S.
CASE NO. 001: NORJAK
NOVEMBER 24, 1971
PORTLAND, OREGON
2:00 P.M.
A man in his mid-forties, wearing a suit and overcoat, buys a ticket
for Northwest Orient Airlines flight 305 bound for Seattle.
3:07 P.M.
The man presents his demands: $200,000 in cash and four parachutes. If
the demands are not met, he threatens to detonate the explosive device
in his briefcase.
So begins the astonishing true story of the man known as D.B. Cooper,
and the only unsolved airplane hijacking case in the United States.
Comic panels, reproductions of documents from real FBI files, and
photos from the investigation combine for a thrilling read for sleuths
of all ages.
What better way to draw readers into nonfiction than through an
exciting graphic novel? This series will appeal to readers of series
such as Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales. Fans of history and whodunits,
CSI-club kids, and graphic novel enthusiasts alike will be pulled in by
the suspenseful, complex, and kid-appropriate cases in this series.
Sidebars provide fun facts about pre-2001 air travel, serial numbers on
currency, airplane design, and more. Backmatter showcases period photos
and primary source material in FBI archives.
This Open Access book is about the development of a common
understanding of environmental citizenship. It conceptualizes and
frames environmental citizenship taking an educational perspective.
Organized in four complementary parts, the book first explains the
political, economic and societal dimensions of the concept. Next,
it examines environmental citizenship as a psychological concept
with a specific focus on knowledge, values, beliefs and attitudes.
It then explores environmental citizenship within the context of
environmental education and education for sustainability. It
elaborates responsible environmental behaviour, youth activism and
education for sustainability through the lens of environmental
citizenship. Finally, it discusses the concept within the context
of different educational levels, such as primary and secondary
education in formal and non-formal settings. Environmental
citizenship is a key factor in sustainability, green and cycle
economy, and low-carbon society, and an important aspect in
addressing global environmental problems. It has been an
influential concept in many different arenas such as economy,
policy, philosophy, and organizational marketing. In the field of
education, the concept could be better exploited and established,
however. Education and, especially, environmental discourses in
science education have a great deal to contribute to the adoption
and promotion of environmental citizenship.
With the aim to help teachers design and deliver instruction around
world films featuring child protagonists, Cultivating Creativity
through World Films guides readers to understand the importance of
fostering creativity in the lives of youth. It is expected that by
teaching students about world films through the eyes of characters
that resemble them, they will gain insight into cultures that might
be otherwise unknown to them and learn to analyze what they see.
Teachers can use these films to examine and reflect on differences
and commonalities rooted in culture, social class, gender,
language, religion, etc., through guided questions for class
discussion. The framework of this book is conceived to help
teachers develop students' ability to evaluate, analyze, synthesize
and interpret. The proposed activities seek to incite reflection
and creativity in students, and can be used as a model for teachers
in designing future lessons on other films.
Exam Board: SQA Level: National 5 Subject: Modern Studies First
Teaching: September 2017 First Exam: Summer 2018 This second
edition comprehensively covers the changes made to the course
content and prepares students to cope with the increased emphasis
on knowledge and understanding in the new National 5 exam. - Covers
the two issues that students have the opportunity to study in this
unit of the course: Social Inequality and Crime and the Law -
Monitors progress throughout the topics with summary questions -
Focuses attention on specific topic areas with case studies and
fact files - Prepares students for the final exam with assessment
guidance
Civics Education in Contentious Times: Working with Teachers to
Create Locally-Specific Curricula in a Post-Truth World is a
longitudinal research study that focuses on the collaboration
between a researcher and elementary teachers to design and
implement locally-specific civics curriculum in a predominately
Latinx-serving Title I school. William Toledo details how the
design team wrote and taught this curricular unit in the midst of
contentious socio-political contexts and how themes from these
greater contexts entered classrooms, along with proposing
conceptual frameworks for teaching civic perspective-taking in
these instances.
Brainball:Teaching Inquiry and Social Studies as a Team Sport is an
attempt to clarify that not only is social studies a game, but that
it is one of the most useful and powerful games that teachers and
students will ever play. Games are the doing of theory, and maybe
it would be a good idea to start doing social studies in every
social studies classroom.
Giving students opportunities to read like mathematicians as they
explore content has the potential to move their thinking and
understandings in monumental ways. Each chapter presented in this
volume provides readers with approaches and activities for pairing
a young adult novel with specific mathematics concepts. Chapters
include several instructional activities for before, during, and
after reading as well as extension activities that move beyond the
text as students continue to develop mathematical literacy.
180 Days of Social Studies is a fun and effective daily practice
workbook designed to help students build social studies content
knowledge. This easy-to-use kindergarten workbook is great for
at-home learning or in the classroom. The engaging standards-based
activities cover grade-level skills with easy to follow
instructions and an answer key to quickly assess student
understanding. Each week students explore a new topic focusing on
one of the four social studies disciplines: history, civics,
geography, and economics. Watch student s confidence soar as they
build analytic skills with these quick learning activities.Parents
appreciate the teacher-approved activity books that keep their
child engaged and learning. Great for homeschooling, to reinforce
learning at school, or prevent learning loss over summer.Teachers
rely on the daily practice workbooks to save them valuable time.
The ready to implement activities are perfect for daily morning
review or homework. The activities can also be used for
intervention skill building to address learning gaps. Supports the
C3 Framework and aligns to the NCSS curriculum standards.
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Planned themes with step-by-step guidance and ideas, linked to the
national curriculum for KS1 and KS2 philosophy Linked themes to all
subjects within the curriculum, including the ones that need a bit
more imagination and philosophy teaching experience (e.g. ICT,
Science) A teacher-friendly, easy-to-use layout A non-prescriptive
teaching philosophy approach so it allows the teacher/facilitator
to have space for their own creative input as well. A dip-in,
practical resource book
Meet Bo and Zop, two scouts from the Omega Quadrant, on a mission
to monitor Earth. Their job is to find out all about us Earthlings,
to see if we are friendly enough for a visit from the aliens of
Omegatron. Bo doesn't think so, he doesn't seem to understand us at
all! Can Zop show Bo what it means to be an Earthling? Explore PSHE
themes in a fun and interesting way with this lively series.
This book compares the current status of democracy in selected
Eastern European countries. The focus is on young people's
attitudes towards and experiences of democracy, including active
political engagement. In many of these countries, democracy has
been hard-won and may well need to be defended again in the future.
The contributors collectively reflect on young adults exercising
their civic rights and how they can influence the political system
at both formal and informal levels. The chapters present different
issues that arise in unique contexts but overall reflect the
changing status of democracy and its effects on young people's
citizenship activity and education. The volume compares
perspectives of three groups of Eastern European countries with
different traditions and past histories of democracy and
citizenship: Central European countries (Poland, Czech, Hungary);
Baltic countries (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia); and post-soviet
republics (Ukraine, Moldova). These countries differ in the status
given to democracy, citizenship action traditions and education. At
the same time, many countries have experienced recent turbulence
related to democracy and different kinds of actions by young
people. Comparing them leads to conclusions about omissions made in
current citizenship education provision and what needs to be done
for a better understanding of the needs of citizenship education in
these difficult times. This volume will be of interest to students
and scholars in citizenship and civic education, sociology,
political science and Eastern European Studies.
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