Alexey Root

People, Places, Checkmates

Teaching Social Studies with Chess

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Fifteen chess-enhanced lesson plans address National Council for the Social Studies standards for grades 4-8 and help prepare students to succeed in University Interscholastic League (UIL) Chess Puzzle. Implement the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) curriculum standards in your classroom with People, Places, Checkmates: Teaching Social Studies with Chess. In this unique volume, 15 lesson plans teach culture, history, geography, and citizenship through the history of chess and its relationship to art, civics, culture, economics, geography, government, and technology. This book will also help educators and librarians prepare students to succeed in University Interscholastic League (UIL) Chess Puzzle. Each 40-minute lesson plan includes an NCSS theme, materials and sources, procedure, and evaluation. Each lesson is followed by an optional 10-25 minute chess exercise, composed of teacher background, procedure and materials, expected time, and evaluation. A separate chapter teaches the chess basics necessary for your students to actually play chess and successfully complete the optional exercises. Lesson plans complement upper elementary and middle school curricula in world history, U.S. history, geography, and social studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Libraries Unlimited
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 280mm x 216mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 411g
• ISBN-13: 9781591588504
• ISBN-10: 1591588502
• Artikelnr.: 28433377

Autorenporträt

Alexey W. Root has a Ph.D. in education from UCLA. Her work history includes public high school teaching (social studies and English). Her most notable chess accomplishment was winning the U.S. Women's championship in 1989. Since the fall of 1999, Root has been a senior lecturer at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). She has taught UTD education classes, tutored prospective teachers for certification exams, and supervised student teachers. Root's current assignment for UTD is to teach, via the UT TeleCampus, online education courses that explore the uses of chess in classrooms. Children and Chess: A Guide for Educators (2006) and Science, Math, Checkmate: 32 Chess Activities for Inquiry and Problem Solving (2008) were both published by Teacher Ideas Press.

Inhaltsangabe

? Chapter 1 Introduction National Council for the Social Studies Lesson
Plan Overview Organization of Chess Classes Chess Equipment ? Chapter 2
The World of Chess Lesson 1: Timelines Exercise 1: Chatrang and Shatranj
Lesson 2: Maps Exercise 2: Ninth-Century Chess Problem Lesson 3: Silk Road
Exercise 3: Tandem Chess Lesson 4: Legends around the World Exercise 4:
Mongolian Chess Legend Lesson 5: Write a Legend Exercise 5-A: Create a
Problem Exercise 5-B: Robin Hood and the Pawn ? Chapter 3 Chess and Society
Lesson 6: Rule Changes Exercise 6: Slow-Paced Chess Lesson 7: Noble
Charades Exercise 7: Chess with Dice Lesson 8: Chess Legend of Columbus
Exercise 8: King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella Lesson 9: The Turk, Automaton
Chess Player Exercise 9: Endgame Problem from the Turk Lesson 10: Federal
Sets Exercise 10: Thomas Jefferson ? Chapter 4 Chess and Citizenship Lesson
11: Benjamin Franklin Exercise 11: Bughouse Lesson 12: Famous Chess Players
Exercise 12: Famous Chess Moves Lesson 13: Chess Philanthropy Exercise 13:
Simultaneous Exhibition Lesson 14: Chess Scholarships Exercise 14: Check
'em Tech Lesson 15: Immigration Exercise 15: Foreign Chess Terms ? Chapter
5 Chess Basics Rules of Chess Win, Lose, or Draw Reading and Writing Chess
Appendix A Answer Key Appendix B References Appendix C Chess at Colleges
and Universities Glossary Index