Ghost of Andrew Eaton said:
Sapper Redux said:
Ghost of Andrew Eaton said:
Rex Racer said:
Ghost of Andrew Eaton said:
4th and 7th grade.
I don't remember 4th grade.
Unfortunately, social studies is rarely taught at the elementary school level for a number of reasons.
I genuinely question the utility of trying to teach kids history before they know how to place themselves in the world today and think abstractly. That feels more like indoctrinating than teaching. 4th grade would be the absolute earliest I would try any serious review of history.
K-3 is mostly "my community" sort of stuff. 4th and 5th grade social studies is even more bare-bones than middle school. I teach 8th grade U.S. history and we don't good too far in depth because we simply don't have the time to with having to cover 1607-1876 and the Constitution so our kids can take the STAAR test. I've really focused on my class being a non-fiction reading class with history as the delivery method.
"What is your evidence?" is probably the most asked question in my classroom.
This is why 7th and 8th should be a combined course starting with indigenous / pre discovery NA (emphasis on TX). To new world exploration, colonization, revolution, etc, etc.
In each era, bring out what was happening in TX during the period. Sort of, "Meanwhile, back at the ranch...."
Spread the whole thing out, allows for more depth, adds the context to see what was happening in TX during the same periods as the English colonies and early US history.
As focus and emphasis throughout o TX history where appropriate.