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Strategies for the Social Studies Classroom

[|Using Inquiry to Teach Social Studies]

This article highlights effective inquiry strategies for the social studies classroom. Some include: webquests, investigating community resources, case studies, storypath, museum building in the classroom, and service learning.

__**Children's Literature**__
 * NCSS Notable Tradebooks
 * Coretta Scott King books
 * International Reading Association

__**Use of Primary Sources**__
 * National Archives
 * Document Analysis forms
 * Library of Congress
 * The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
 * Kentucky Historical Society
 * The Filson Historical Society
 * [[file:ntisocialstudies/Primary Source Investigation.doc|Primary Source Investigation.doc]]
 * [[file:ntisocialstudies/Primary Source Investigation Blank form.doc|Primary Source Investigation Blank form.doc]]

__**Use of graphic organizers**__ Reading Quest (Social Studies graphic organizers)

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 * Visual Discovery Strategy (image analysis)
 * [|Visual Discovery in 5 Easy Steps]
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 * Images related to the Underground Railroad
 * [|National Geographic Interactive Underground Railroad]
 * [[file:WebsitesEveryTeacherShouldBeUsing.pdf]]
 * See model Abolition and Dissent Wikispace to support lesson on abolitionism
 * Reader's Theater
 * Sample Reader's Theater (Harriet Tubman)
 * Sample Reader's Theater (The First Thanksgiving)
 * [[file:ntisocialstudies/How to use Read-Aloud Plays.doc|How to use Read-Aloud Plays.doc]]