Social Studies for the Preschool/Primary Child, 9th edition

• Be guided by a focus on the general milestones of childhood growth, development, and learning. The strong emphasis on child development, stressed throughout the text, ties child development theory to effective planning, emphasises the need for “active learning” and will help teachers help young students successfully learn in the early classroom environment.
• Become familiar with the best resources available for teachers. Throughout the text, the authors encourage making the most of the resources offered to teachers from school, family, community, children’s literature, and technology.
• Gain knowledge from the most current information available with an expanded treatment of key topics in the social studies curriculum–including the thematic project approach and multicultural education–the text promises future teachers will be given the most pertinent information relevant to today’s educational environment and what they need to know in order to succeed in their first classrooms.
• Develop a greater respect for culture and diversity with a plethora of resources and rationale for future teachers. With guidelines for full inclusion of all learners–regardless of special needs, language, or individual differences–the text features a separate chapter on culture and diversity, including a full complement of curriculum materials, methods, and activity ideas for teaching young children to value themselves and others.
• Remain focused on key chapter content with a litany of review guides. Opening questions, a concluding summary, discussion questions, extend your knowledge activities, and references in every chapter, these handy tools will quickly guide readers’ attention to the most important core content, and act as a useful means for processing the information, and a reliable gauge to test their level of understanding of chapter material.

The Tenth Edition has been improved upon from previous ones by including the most current updates in standards, technology, resources, learning, evidence-based practices, and research related to teaching social studies to children in the preschool and primary grades.

• Become knowledgeable about the NCSS Standards. This edition features the most current standards throughout the text. A figure listing each of the strands appears in the relevant chapters for predictable and easy access.
• Learn about high-quality children’s literature beneficial to teaching social studies. The new Children’s Literature boxed feature is located in the chapters on culture, history, geography, economics, government, and global connections.
• Delve deeper into the key content and process the course material in class with new Discussion Questions featured at the end of each chapter.
• Benefit from the most up-to-date research and references. Throughout this edition, readers will find the most current evidence-based practices related to teaching social studies to young students. 
• Be inspired by new ways to integrate technology into the social studies curriculum with expanded technology ideas throughout the text.
• Understand how to assess social studies learning in the classroom with a newly expanded Chapter 2 on planning and assessment.