Getting at the Core of the Common Core with Social Studies

Thomas N. Turner, University of Tennessee, USAJeremiah Clabough, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USAWilliam Cole, Sequoyah High School in Madisonville, Tennessee, USAWilliam B. Russell III, Ph.D., University of Central Florida, USA

• Introduction, Jeremiah Clabough, Thomas N. Turner, and William Cole.Chapter 1. How Did We Get Here? Common Core and the History of Standards in Social Studies Education, Joshua L. Kenna and William Benedict Russell III.Chapter 2. What is Inquiry?: Giving the Hippopotamus Wings, Thomas N. Turner and Jeremiah Clabough.Chapter 3. Getting to the Core of the Problem: Decision-Making Activities and Common Core State Standards, William G. Cole.Chapter 4. Historical Thinking: Cultivating a Rich Garden of Autonomous Thinkers, Jennifer Summerlin.Chapter 5. Building Global Citizens Through the Common Core, Dorothy E. Blanks.Chapter 6. The Common Core State Standards: Implications for Students With Learning Disabilities, Tara Bezait and Timothy Lintner.Chapter 7. Exploring Social Studies Through Digital Literacy, Debra Coffey.Chapter 8. Linking Literacy and Social Studies Through Picture Books in K–12 Settings, Amy D. Broemmel, Seth Rayman, and Shannon A. Hancock.Chapter 9. Historical Fiction: Reality Meets Imagination, Sarah Philpott.Chapter 10. Disciplinary Literacy: Teaching Students to Read as Historians, Todd Cherner, Adam Kelley, and Mikel Norris.Chapter 11. Drama in the Social Studies and Common Core: First the Apple, Then the Core, Thomas N. Turner.Chapter 12. Climbing the Common Core Beanstalk With Primary Sources, Jeremiah Clabough.Chapter 13. Seeing Is Believing: Visual Primary Sources Make Wide-Eyed Learners, Alicia Laffoon and Penny Boyd.Chapter 14. “My Life Was Hard and I Had No Money in My Pocket”: Doing Historical Research With Oral History, Gail Hickey.Chapter 15. Get Cooking With Multimedia Social Studies and the Common Core, Lance McConkey.Chapter 16. Connecting the Economic Way of Thinking to the Common Core, Ashley S. Harrison, J. R. Clark, and Mark C. Schug.Chapter 17. Teaching Geography Education Within a Common Core Framework, Kenneth T. Carano.Chapter 18. Citizenship Education: The Common Core Meets the Common Good, Jeremiah Clabough and Thomas N. Turner.About the Authors.