Teaching Social Studies with Integration: A Model to Meet Curriculum Goals

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Iowa Journal for the Social Studies

Volume

30

Issue

2

Publisher

Iowa Council for the Social Studies

Publication Date

1-1-2022

First Page

190

Last Page

267

Abstract

As social studies is continually marginalized in the elementary classroom, integration has become a primary method to include social studies in the elementary day. Through a co-constructed unit with a 2nd grade teacher, the researcher describes a process to integrate curriculum while focusing on content area goals. The process is developed, explained and applied to a 2nd grade integrated social studies unit with the support of a practicing 2nd grade teacher. After developing the unit, three practicing teachers provided feedback. On the whole, teachers provided positive feedback. However, they did not address the unit’s alignment to curriculum goals.

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