Exploring Social Studies Kentucky
Inspire authentic learning through an integrated approach to social studies and literacy.
Think outside the textbook with Exploring Social Studies, a carefully aligned, comprehensive curriculum that saves teachers time, is cost effective, and is flexible to use in multiple instructional settings. Students will develop social studies content knowledge and build literacy skills through resources with multiple perspectives that cultivate curiosity about civics, geography, history, and economics, helping them understand the world around them and their connection to it.
Overview
Encourage students to become active learners to promote civic thinking.
- Build literacy and social studies knowledge with high-interest nonfiction books featuring dynamic primary sources that meet the four disciplines of social studies.
- Make every elementary educator a social studies expert with easy-to-use, creative lesson plans that meet state standards for both ELA and social studies.
- Promote inquiry-based learning with discussion questions, document-based assessments, and primary source analysis activities.
- Support English learners with differentiation tips embedded within each lesson.
- Use in multiple instructional settings, including whole- and small-group instruction during social studies or within a Balanced Literacy approach.
- Engage students through integrated technology with audio files of each book that model fluent reading, as well as interactive eBooks and additional digital resources.
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Digital Resources
- Support small- and whole- group instruction with an emphasis on interactive student engagement, integrated technology, and project-based learning opportunities.
- Enhance and support instruction with audio files of each book to model fluent reading.
- Dive deeper into content and support blended learning with interactiv-eBooks, student activities, and additional digital resources for easy use in distanced-, hybrid-, or in-person learning.
Lesson Plans
- Equip teachers with the tools they need to become social studies experts with easy-to-use lesson plans.
- Use an integrated ELA approach to specifically address state content standards for history-social science, English language arts, and English language development.
- Save teachers time with fact-checked, historically accurate content that meets Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS) for Social Studies.
- Feature ideas to extend to citizenship, encourage active public service among students, and develop civic and democratic values as students become well-rounded citizens.
- Embedded differentiation tips to support English language learners and their language acquisition.
- Integrate seamlessly social studies instruction into the ELA block with everything needed to support instruction and the flexibility of multiple instructional strategies.
Management Guide
- Facilitate implementation with a standards alignment, a scope and sequence, and pacing plans to make teacher use streamlined and user friendly
Content-Area Texts
- Cultivate students’ curiosity about historical events with dynamic primary source readers and leveled reader’s theater scripts.
- Build literacy skills and content-area knowledge.
- Embedded primary sources, high-interest content, and visually appealing layouts to cultivate student's curiosity about history.
- Examine history through multiple perspectives and boost literacy skills while focusing on history, geography, economics, and civics topics.
- Integrate with small-group instruction during social studies or within a Balanced Literacy approach. Feature Reader's Theater scripts with differentiated roles so teachers can assign roles based on student's reading levels, which allows all students to participate in the same activity for an inclusive classroom.
Primary Sources
- Primary sources breathe life into history and capture students' curiosity about past events.
- Provide students with a deeper and more comprehensive view of historical events through maps, letters, photographs, political cartoons, and more! Strengthens inquiry-based learning and critical thinking through analysis of primary sources to make real-life connections to the past.
- Help students build their own understanding of historical events by evaluating multiple perspectives to foster awareness, tolerance, compassion, and employ decision-making skills.
- Support and encourage authentic discourse in the classroom which challenges students to be attentive listeners and courteous responders.
Student Inquiry
- Student Inquiry Handbook provides opportunities for meaningful application of literacy skills and social studies concepts through engaging activities. (25 Student Inquiry Handbooks included with each kit)
Student Engagement
- Develops critical-thinking and problem-solving skills. Encourages inquiry-based learning through discussion questions, document-based assessments, and primary source analysis activities to make history come alive.
- Extension activities and ideas to develop citizenship and inspire students to be civic-minded beyond the classroom.
- Develop social studies content knowledge and build literacy skills with resources that cultivate curiosity about civics, geography, history, and economics, helping students understand the world around them and their connection to it.
Product items
Exploring Social Studies: Kentucky: Kindergarten
Build literacy skills and social studies content-area literacy while cultivating students' curiosity about the world around them and their connections to it. This non-textbook curriculum aligns to Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS) for Social Studies.
Item Number:121304
ISBN:9781087603698
Exploring Social Studies: Kentucky: Grade 1
Build literacy skills and social studies content-area literacy while cultivating students' curiosity about the world around them and their connections to it. This non-textbook curriculum aligns to Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS) for Social Studies.
Item Number:121307
ISBN:9781087603704
Exploring Social Studies: Kentucky: Grade 2
Build literacy skills and social studies content-area literacy while cultivating students' curiosity about the world around them and their connections to it. This non-textbook curriculum aligns to Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS) for Social Studies.
Item Number:121308
ISBN:9781087603711
Exploring Social Studies: Kentucky: Grade 3
Build literacy skills and social studies content-area literacy while cultivating students' curiosity about the world around them and their connections to it. This non-textbook curriculum aligns to Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS) for Social Studies.
Item Number:121309
ISBN:9781087603728
Exploring Social Studies: Kentucky: Grade 4
Build literacy skills and social studies content-area literacy while cultivating students' curiosity about the world around them and their connections to it. This non-textbook curriculum aligns to Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS) for Social Studies.
Item Number:121310
ISBN:9781087603735
Exploring Social Studies: Kentucky: Grade 5
Build literacy skills and social studies content-area literacy while cultivating students' curiosity about the world around them and their connections to it. This non-textbook curriculum aligns to Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS) for Social Studies.
Item Number:121311
ISBN:9781087603742