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Social Studies Teaching for Learners Who Engage

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This chapter informs, applies, and integrates theories with national standards (including Career and College Readiness and the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS), specific, content rich activity modules, and developmentally appropriate classroom strategies that offer teacher education candidates, university students, practitioners and teacher educators, practical, proven, and cost- effective methods that they can replicate in their Kdg-8 classrooms.

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    Anthropology, Archeology, Economics, Ethnography, Geography, Global Studies, History, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology.

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    Barbara Torre Veltri Ed.D.

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Appendices

Definitions

Basic Human Needs: Essentials for survival Needs

  1. 1.

    Water

  2. 2.

    Food

  3. 3.

    Shelter

  4. 4.

    Temperature (warmth, but not excessive heat)

  5. 5.

    Rest

Basic Human Wants: Impact quality of life

  1. 1.

    Companionship

  2. 2.

    Comfort (warmer warmth/shelter

  3. 3.

    Freedom (Safe)

  4. 4.

    Self-determination

  5. 5.

    Peace (of mind, body, location

Culture: The way of life of a group of people.

It is important to note that while human beings are complex and individual, needs maintain their constancy, while wants are greatly impacted and even altered by:

Time:

When you live (era, period, century)

Place:

Where you live (Ancient Rome, Seattle, castle)

Circumstance:

An unseen situation (Do you have a flat tire?)

Condition:

One’s state of being (Are you happy? Are you poor?)

Culture:

How you live

National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS)

Curriculum Standards for Social Studies

Standard

  1. 1.

    Culture

  2. 2.

    People, Places, and Environments

  3. 3.

    Time, Continuity, and Change

  4. 4.

    Individual Development and Identity

  5. 5.

    Individuals, Groups, and Institutions

  6. 6.

    Power, Authority, and Governance

  7. 7.

    Production, Distribution, and Consumption

  8. 8.

    Science, Technology, and Society

  9. 9.

    Global Connections

  10. 10.

    Civic Ideals and Practices

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Veltri, B.T. (2015). Social Studies Teaching for Learners Who Engage. In: Papa, R. (eds) Media Rich Instruction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00152-4_10

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