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Age Range: 5-14 yrs
Authors: Decision Development Corporation, with a co development grant from
the Florida Department of Education
Publication Date: 1997
Cost: Please call
Publisher: Decision Development Corporation
Phone:(510) 830-8896
Publisher's Description:
Social Science 2000TM delivers a complete K - 8 social studies curriculum and supports the Florida Social Studies Program of Study--Connections, Challenges, and Choices. Social Science 2000TM offers a blend of instructional materials to help you create an environment rich in learning resources. You'll find print materials, interactive software, videodisc imagery, books, maps, and tapes--all designed to foster exploration, investigation, and understanding.
Scope and Sequence
Grade K: Finding Out About Families
Grade 1: Families Around the World
Grade 2: Cultural Glimpses: Past and Present
Grade 3: Change in Many Times & Cultures
Grade 4: U.S. History to 1880
Grade 5: U.S. History Since 1880
Grade 6: Interacting with Our World: Africa, Asia, Oceania
Grade 7: Interacting with Our World: Europe, South America, North America
Grade 8: You Decide!
Tools for Teaching and Learning
Videodiscs (Grades K - 8) Contain hundreds of still-image and motion video clip of art, architecture, music, maps, charts, and more that dramatically enhance, expand, or form the basis of the lessons, activities, and investigations.
Software (Grades K - 8) An extensive database of lesson plans, student investigations, simulations, teaching tips, and background information, student research information, primary source material, biographies, glossaries, career investigations, demographic data, maps, charts. Available for both IBM (DOS) and Macintosh.
Professional Development Teacher's Guide Packed with information on implementing Social Science 2000, from using the videodisc player and loading software to finding your way around the program. Also includes a complete scope and sequence, plus scores of teaching tips.
Lesson Plan Binder (Grades K - 8) Complete, printed lesson plans for the entire year at each grade level.
Student Investigations--Blackline Masters (Grades K - 8) The activity portion of each lesson. Designed to involve students in the discovery and application of knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Trade Books (Grades K - 8) A wide selection of fiction and non-fiction linked to lessons in every unit at every grade.
Cobblestone Magazines (Grades K, 4 - 8) The popular children's magazine that explores a single theme per issue.
Rand McNally Maps and Atlases (Grades 4 - 8) A variety of maps showing different areas of the world.
Audiotapes (Grades K - 2, 5) Wee Sing Around the World and Wee Sing America, collections of traditional songs--music and lyrics.
Skills Trace
Access Information
Observe charts, maps, locations, works of art, photos, people, landscapes
Read
Listen
Organize Information
Charts, graphs, diagrams, graphic organizers
Outlines and summaries
Division of time
Interpret Information
Compare/contrast
Classify
Predict outcomes/speculate
Draw conclusions
Fact/opinion
Cause-effect
Make decisions
Evaluate data
Present Information
Oral
Written
Visual
Act Responsibly
Ethical behavior
Civic involvement
Manage Resources
Time
Materials
Understand Systems
Social; family, school, community
Political
Economic
Work Cooperatively and Collaboratively
Display Cultural Understanding
Simulations
Social Science 2000 provides students with hundreds of lesson activities and assignments, including on-line simulations.
Simulations are designed to give students interactive problem solving opportunities as they collect data and seek answers to real-world problems and questions. Examples of simulations at each grade include:
Grade K: Students examine a basic Japanese sitting room.
Grade 1: Students examine photos of houses, fords, and clothing in Canada and Mexico.
Grade 2: Students examine a drawing of a scene in a Cherokee village.
Grade 3: Students compete to grow the biggest pumpkin for the Florida State Fair.
Grade 4: Students investigate population trends over time in the U.S. South.
Grade 5: Students role play assembly line workers, learning about turn-of-the-century industrial labor.
Grade 6: Students assume the role of city elders who are trying to maintain the prosperity of a city located on the shoreline of a river in Asia.
Grade 7: Students choose one of five European countries and a trading partner as they learn about the importance of international trade and economic concepts.
Grade 8: Students play the role of developers as they explore the extent and effect of wetland development in Florida.
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