Description
This course is designed for strengthening the social studies content knowledge for elementary and middle-level teachers with special attention to those concepts necessary to teach successfully in a U.S., K-8 classroom. This course will provide exposure to diverse content, foster critical thinking, promote inquiry, and challenge students to think like a historian. The course focuses on the Iowa Core Standards for Social Studies: Behavioral Sciences, Civics, Economics, Financial Literacy, Geography, and History. This is not a methods course; it is a course in social studies content. This course is required for the elementary education endorsement. The practitioners who successfully complete this course will demonstrate their content mastery via research and presentations. This foundational knowledge will equip them to successfully teach the social studies in the elementary classroom.