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Trent, Allen; Moran, Peter – Education 3-13, 2018
This article is about a year-long teaching and research project conducted with 696 4th graders (mostly 10-year olds) and their 36 teachers in Wyoming/USA. The researchers employed an action research approach. They planned and taught a two-day, Wyoming-themed, interdisciplinary unit, "We Are Wyoming", which integrated Social Studies,…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Crocco, Margaret Smith; Marino, Michael P. – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2014
Almost eighty years ago, Lucy Sprague Mitchell, founder of Bank Street College of Education in New York City, wrote about social studies in ways that sound remarkably contemporary: "In the first place, we shall say that the curriculum should continue the laboratory methods, which means it should furnish the children with as many first-hand…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Neighborhoods, State Standards, Geography