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Overview
Welcome to the UD Libraries' course guide for EDT 411/413/511/544: Social Studies Methods. Navigate the tabs to find sources that will help you build your own knowledge and teach Ohio's Learning Standards for Social Studies.
Questions? Comments? Wish to schedule a research consultation? Contact the education librarian or schedule a consultation using our online calendar.
Interdisciplinary Sources
- TeachingBooks This link opens in a new window
Provides movies of authors and illustrators, and multimedia resources on K–12 books to support reading and library activities.
- Smithsonian Learning LabThe Learning Lab is a free, interactive platform for discovering millions of authentic digital resources, creating content with online tools, and sharing in the Smithsonian's expansive community of knowledge and learning.
- CultureGrams This link opens in a new window
CultureGrams provides country reports that deliver a one-of-a-kind perspective on daily life and culture, including the background, customs, and lifestyles of the world's people. The reports are written and reviewed by in-country experts and are updated as new information becomes available. Users link to the reports via an engaging, map-based interface.
- World Book Kids This link opens in a new window
This resource is the primary school edition of the general World Book Encyclopedia. Educator Tools are included. - World Book Student This link opens in a new window
A mainstay to meet the research needs of students in Middle and High School. Resources include thousands of articles and multimedia. Educator tools and a citation builder are available. - World Book Timelines This link opens in a new window
Hundreds of customizable, interactive timelines of important events throughout history.
Library Resources and the IDM
You'll find a few different kinds of library resources in this research guide. Some resources can help you build your own understanding of a social studies topic and develop a compelling question; other resources can help your students build their understandings and practice the work of historians and social scientists. The graphic above and the table below map these types of resources to the Inquiry Design Model (IDM).
| IDM section | Library Resources |
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| Compelling Question |
Build your understanding with scholarly sources to develop a compelling question that reflect the interests of students and the curriculum and content with which students might have little experience. Resource types:
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| Featured Sources |
Find disciplinary sources for your students to use in building their understandings of the compelling and supporting questions and to practice the work of historians and social scientists.
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