Date of Award
5-1948
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Education
First Advisor
Ernest M. Anderson
Abstract
This study was undertaken to develop suggestive resource units for teaching social studies in the eighth grade at Northeast Junior High School, Kansas City, Kansas.
A comprehensive study was made of recent trends in teaching social studies units to obtain the best thinking in regard to purposes, procedures, activities, and techniques for preparing the resource units.
Books, bulletins, magazines, courses of study, and theses were examined and studied to secure information for developing the units. Bibliographies were made for both the teacher and the pupils.
The following three units were developed: (1) Orientation; (2) The Machine Age Creates A New Way of Life; and (3) Aviation in Kansas.
The units were selected and developed on the following bases: (1) To meet the standards set up by the National Council for the Social Studies; (2) To meet the objectives of the Kansas Social Studies Program; (3) To utilize material in the two standard textbooks approved and adopted by the State of Kansas; (4) To fit the age-grade level of the pupils, and to capitalize on their interests and needs; and (5) To utilize community resources.
General objectives and outcomes have been set up for each unit. Suggested problems, analyses, activities, and evaluations are given, which will provide the pupils with experiences that will best aid their development into well-rounded, wholesome personalities capable of taking their places as useful and desirable citizens in our American democracy.
Recommended Citation
Caldwell, Rozella Katherine, "Suggested Resource Units for Teaching Eighth Grade Social Studies at Northeast Junior High School" (1948). Electronic Theses & Dissertations. 496.
https://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/etd/496
Comments
Rozella K. (Caldwell) Swisher taught at Horace Mann Laboratory School. She married Laurence Blanton Swisher, one of the first black athletes at PSU.