Let's Explore Modern Germany: Instructional Strategies for Elementary Educators is designed to provide elementary social studies teachers with comprehensive lessons on Germany - historical and contemporary - that can be easily integrated into preexisting curricula.
The book is organized into four sections: Geography, Contemporary Life, History, and the Grimm Brothers and Other Tales. Each lesson is correlated to the revised National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and Common Core Standards and includes a lesson overview that summarizes the objectives of the lesson, pertinent teacher background information, a suggested time frame, instructional resources (located on the accompanying Instructional Resource Disc), and a detailed lesson procedure. In addition, there is a whole group reflection, which reconnects students with the focus question(s), lesson modifications and extensions. The lesson design allows the teacher to integrate social studies with literacy, mathematics, and science.
How to combine German and STEM successfully? The Digital Kinderuniversity is an online platform for students (8-12-year-old), parents and teachers. No German knowledge required to get started! Digital Kinderuniversity features 30 multimedia lectures in three disciplines (Nature, Technology, Humanities).
Now more than ever it is important to educate students to start thinking about environmental stewardship. With this goal in mind, the Transatlantic Outreach Program created a student "roleplay" workbook for elementary and middle school (grades 3-7) children.
