Integrating Socially: Planning Integrated Units of Work for Social Education

Social education brings the world into the classroom. It provides opportunities for young learners to explore and clarify values and attitudes, develop investigative skills, discuss issues, solve problems, make decisions, and act on the understandings they have developed about the world around them. Integrating Socially is essentially a book about classroom practice. It is a comprehensive guide to developing integrated units of work for social education with a focus on language. The planned units cover a broad spectrum of social education topics and are an immediate resource for teaching as well as models for the teacher's own planning. All the activities have been trialled across a range of ages in the elementary school.