Activities and Enrichments Introduction

The companion website generally follows the plan of Social Studies for the Twenty-First Century, chapter by chapter. It extends the textbook’s content with supplemental and follow-up activities, including several teaching units. One, from the previous edition, covers the Civil War. A new one, left purposely incomplete on “Heroines/Heroes in History,” includes methods students and student teachers can experiment with as they try to complete its content.

One or more of these supplemental activities will follow a chapter or chapters in order, each chosen to extend and enrich existing examples. This offers professors and students the opportunity to play roles and develop activities by discussion and/or curriculum, reflecting themes of multiple intelligences, questioning, writing challenging lessons, and creating ‘recipes’ for instruction that use ‘raw’ data, particularly primary sources, multiple perspectives, and website reviews.

Among the extended activities provided are:

1. Applying multiple intelligences to teaching social studies
2. Call the question (controversial issues)
3. Challenges! (developing challenging materials)
4. Recipes for wild social studies: The raw and the cooked
5. Framing and reframing a document: multiple perspectives
6. Reviewing websites, social studies research, and materials for classroom use