notable trade books in social studies 2013

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People

2013

Presented by Karen Hildebrand hildebka@gmail.comCommittee member for the NCSS Notable SS Books

Book Review Committee>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

The National CouncilFor Social Studies

The Children’s Book Council

Since 1972

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For children in grades K-12Published in 2012

Criteria:~ emphasize human relations~ represent a diversity of groups ~ sensitive to a broad range of cultural experiences ~ present an original theme or a fresh slant on a traditional

topic ~ easily readable ~ high literary quality ~ pleasing format~ where appropriate, include illustrations that enrich

the text

Thematic Strands of the NCSS Curriculum Standards for Social Studies

• Culture• Time, Continuity, and Change• People, Places, and Environments• Individual Development and Identity• Individuals, Groups, and Institutions• Power, Authority, and Governance• Production, Distribution, and Consumption• Science, Technology, and Society• Global Connections• Civic Ideals and Practices

Biography

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJeuXJqO-Lg

http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=76090

http://myloc.gov/Multimedia/Gutenberg.aspx

From the Good Mountain

A Companion Guide for Adults and Children

How Books Were Made in the Fifteenth Century

Contents: Paper, Leather, Gold, Ink, Type, The Press, Illumination, Types, Bookbinding, Paper, Printers

Benjamin BannekerFrederick DouglassW.E.B. DuBoisBooker T. WashingtonA. Philip Randolph

Thurgood MarshallJackie RobinsonMartin Luther King, Jr.Malcolm XBarack Obama

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw2rJL2YaPw

http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675069221_baby-panda_Brookfield-Zoo_an-old-panda_meet-each-other

1936Mrs. Ruth Harkness

1948

Movie release: October 18, 2013

Contemporary Concerns

Mary Sullivan

http://www.thepiratetree.com/2012/12/06/self-discovery-happens-when-war-comes-home/

Setting 1963

http://www.mylifetime.com/movies/the-pregnancy-project/video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ0m8raInHo

Environments/Energy/Ecology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVRXoCJDlEw

http://www.barbrosenstock.com/read/Camping_Trip_Tools_BarbRosenstock.pdf

Set in Malawi, 1987

http://www.ted.com/talks/william_kamkwamba_how_i_harnessed_the_wind.html

http://movingwindmills.org/

Folktales

http://bookdragon.si.edu/?s=the+wooden+sword

Geography/People/Places

http://www.tinanicholscoury.com/teacherfunstuff.html

http://www.FugeesFamily.org/

Cameroon $3.77

Kennewick Man remainsColumbia RiverKennewick, WA

China

Thailand BasquecountrySpain

Malawi

Cairo,Egypt

Available on the author’s website:http://shanaburg.com/educators/

http://www.randomhouse.com/teachers/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/SLM_ThundWhpsrRedUmb_flipEG.pdf

http://www.pbs.org/treasuresoftheworld/a_nav/guernica_nav/main_guerfrm.html

Pablo Picasso:“Guernica” 1937

History/ Life and culture in the Americas

Back cover:“What would you do if you had the chance to help a person find freedom?”

http://www.audreyvernick.com/Brothers%20At%20Bat%20Curriculum%20Guide.pdf

January 25, 1896 - November 1, 1927

http://www.cbcdiversity.com/2012/10/book-spotlight-fifty-cents-and-dream.html

http://vimeo.com/57612691

http://6elementssje.blogspot.com/2012/02/we-march-element-three.html

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec08/nmpoetry_11-19.html

CynthiaGrady

Michele Wood Eerdmans Publishing

Cotton Boll

I need the music of my forebears fromAfrik, but take the mending to my lapAnd work beside the Missus’ chair. A spellOf quiet sewing, restful breath – it sootheMy soul, dangling by a thread that been spunLike cotton fiber grown and pinched on thisHell place. Before I know, I’m rocking withthe rhythm of the stitching, humming lowThe melody of “Gilead.” A balmFor hunger, sorrow, heartache, yes, he is.

A healing ointment found in Gilead on the eastern shore of the Jordan River was so curative that it was equal in worth to salt, a precious commodity in ancient times …

http://www.candlewick.com/book_files/0763650803.art.1.pdf

http://www.wgbh.org/programs/The-Point-298/episodes/Martin-Sandler-41565

http://www.charlesbridge.com/productdetails.cfm?PC=5585

9 PageTeacher Guide +Reader’s Theater

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=molasses-flood-physics-science

1898, Wilmington, North Carolina

AuthorBarbaraWright

Burning the Wilmington Daily Record building

1866

http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/worksheets/photo_analysis_worksheet.pdf

1934 Negro All-Star Game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaVNI67fElQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyL8ANQofNI

http://shelleypearsall.com/

The 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion

“The Triple Nickels”

Sneak Peek

Reference

http://www.jimmurphybooks.com/index.htm

http://sundaycummins.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/interview-with-marc-aronson-author-of-master-of-deceit/

Social Interactions/ Relationships

Trilogy: Once, Then, Now

1963, Mississippi

Sonia Manzano

Scholastic Press

PuraBelpreHonorBook

http://therevolutionofevelynserrano.com/1969Spanish Harlem – El BarrioThe Young Lords Activists

Alfred Holmes, left, escorts his son Hamilton Holmes, right, and Charlayne Hunter, center, to the registrar's office at the University of Georgia, on Jan. 9, 1961.

Langston Hughes and Bryan Collier

Cambodia toAmerica

Mexico toAmerica

From slaveryTo freedom

World History and Culture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIiTb55PdIA

http://us.macmillan.com/bomb/SteveSheinkin

1947, India

http://www.irfanmaster.com/resources

Elizabeth E. Wein

Doubleday Canada

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kLMupsGhJk

British cover

http://www.handsaroundthelibrary.com/

Jan. 25, 2011

http://www.facebook.com/HandsAroundTheLibrary?ref=ts&fref=ts

Librarian of Congress James Billington and Ismail Serageldin, director of Egypt's Bibliotheca Alexandrina, shake on an agreement in the new World Digital Library program.

http://thechildrenswar.blogspot.com/2012/03/my-family-for-war-by-anne-c-voorhoeve.html

http://www.kindertransport.org/default.aspx

http://www.candlewick.com/book_files/0763629766.btg.1.pdf

http://doreenrappaport.com/study-guides/

The Story of theOlympics inAncient andEarly ModernTimes

By Benson Bobrick

http://www.socialstudies.org/resources/notable

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