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Romesa
11-19-2008, 04:32 PM
I am a pre-service teacher and I am working on
putting together a resource file that I can use to help boost my knowledge of particular social studies topics and give me fresh teaching ideas for various grade levels. I am compiling possible social studies topics, ideas, and valuable resources, and determining how they fit within the social studies state standards. The purpose of this file is to help me become a better social studies teacher, no matter what grade level I end up teaching.
SO...I wanna know what grade you teach and what social studies topics you are going to be teaching this year/have taught in the past.
I hope that you can help me in my journey to
develop a resource file that will prepare me for teaching social
studies at different grade levels in different parts of Washington.

SS Rocks!
11-19-2008, 07:26 PM
I teach middle school social studies so I'm not sure I'd be very helpful but I wish you the best of luck!

JennA
11-20-2008, 02:31 PM
Some of the social studies topics I've taught are Native Americans (compare/contrast Plains and Woodland), basic geography-map skills, and Rights of Citizens. Hope this helps.

Ebeth
01-25-2009, 11:49 AM
I teach 5th grade and we focus on American History, how the country became what it is today, focusing on geography, cultural influences from the many different people that came here, government and how what are forefathers designed is still important today.