Children and Their World:
Children and Their World consolidates social studies content into a comprehensible framework for preservice teachers, providing an excellent practical resource for classroom lesson planning. Its model student activities include dialogues, suggestions on how to develop curriculum material for teaching particular lessons, and cases presented with procedures about their use with students.
Judge For Yourself:
Intended for use in late elementary or middle school history, civics, or humanities classrooms, this volume collects ten scripts based on actual trial proceedings. Among the trials represented are those of Susan B. Anthony, Lizzie Borden, Eddie Cicotte (of the White Sox scandal), John Thomas Scopes, David C. Stephenson (of the Ku Klux Klan), and Al Capone. Details of the crime are presented in the trial format, allowing the story to unfold through the eyes of the jury. The verdict is presented in a separate section. Barchers is a managing editor for Weekly Reader.
