Multimedia Resources for Teaching Social Studies in the Middle Grades Guide

These are some examples of resources available through the College of Education Media Center on the 4th floor of Poe Hall. For additional materials and suggestions, consult with a librarian.

General

Title: Decisions, decisions. Discuss the latest issues from today's headlines
Notes: Electronic resource -- Simulations designed to stimulate informed discussions on the issues of social studies, languages arts, and science. Grade 5-10.
Call Number: H62 .D43 2001
Location: College of Education Media Center

Title: Prentice Hall world explorer [Videocassette series and teaching materials]
Call Number: LT6010 .P73 W67 1998
Location: College of Education Media Center

Title: World history : connections to today [multimedia resources and teacher materials]
Author: Ellis, Elisabeth Gaynor
Call Number: LT6080 .P73 E44 1997
Location: College of Education Media Center

Title: Silver Burdett Ginn social studies.
Notes: Teaching guide, Workbook, Index of resources, Atlas, GeoTrek CD-ROM, Transparencies, Teacher resources, Citizenship and American values video library, Storybooks, and other supplemental texts.
Call Number: LT6010 .S54 S54 1997
Location: College of Education Media Center

Title: Social science 2000 : connections, challenges, choices.
Notes: Teaching resources accompanied by: CD-ROMs and videodiscs.
Call Number: LT6010 .D42 S62 1996
Location: College of Education Media Center

Title: Reuters issues in geography [videorecording]
Call Number: G73 .R47 1995
Location: College of Education Media Center

Title: Global geography [videorecording]
Call Number: G116 .G56 1988
Location: College of Education Media Center

6th Grade (Eastern Europe)

Title: Eastern Europe [videorecording] : the curtain rises.
Notes: Examines developments since the dismantling of the Berlin Wall in light of the region's history and its role in world politics.
Call Number: DR48.5 .E27 1991
Location: College of Education Media Center

Title: Meet Michael : a Polish youth [videorecording]
Call Number: DK4448 .M4 1992
Location: College of Education Media Center

Title: Living in the USSR [videorecording]
Notes: Middle school grades. [no. 1.] The revolutionary tradation -- [no. 2.] Society & culture -- [no. 3.] People & places -- [no. 4.] Meet Dima: a Soviet teen -- [no. 5] The USSR under Gorbachev.
Call Number: DK286 .L5 1990
Location: College of Education Media Center

Title: Soviet Union [videorecording]
Notes: Discusses geographics, cultural heritage and the major cities of the Soviet Union. Introduces the viewer to Soviet Central Asia, a little known region of the Soviet Union with the fastest growing population in the country.
Call Number: DK274 .R87 1987
Location: College of Education Media Center

7th Grade (Africa and Asia)

Title: Africa the Serengeti [videorecording]
Notes: English narration by: James Earl Jones. Journey with more than two million wildebeests, zebras and antelopes as they travel over 500 miles across the Serengeti plains. The video also features Africa's greatest predators: lions, crocodiles and cheetahs, in deadly pursuit of the migrating prey.
Call Number: QL754 .A37 1999
Location: College of Education Media Center

Title: The roots of African civilization [videorecording]
Notes: Highlights the art, culture, history, and civilizations of ancient West Africa where most African Americans can trace their roots.
Call Number: DT474 .R66 1996
Location: College of Education Media Center

Title: Africa [videorecording]
Notes: Explores the geography and geology of the earth's second largest continent, including the impact of people on the African landscape and on some of Africa's animals.
Call Number: GB330 .A35 1991
Location: College of Education Media Center

Title: The Africans [videorecording]
Notes: A controversial examination of contemporary Africa in terms of its triple heritage: what is indigenous, what was contributed by Islam, and what was acquired from the West.
Call Number: DT14 .A3744 1986
Location: College of Education Media Center

Title: Asia [videorecording]
Notes: Summary: Explores the geography of the worlds largest continent with its vast array of climate, vegetation zones and types of landforms.
Call Number: GB280 .A8 1991
Location: College of Education Media Center

8th Grade (North Carolina)

Title: Changing faces: the heritage of North Carolina [videorecording]
Notes: Highlights some of the groups of people who have contributed so much over the centuries to the cultural mosaic that is North Carolina today. There are sections on Native Americans, women, religious minorities, and African-Americans.
Call Number: F254 .C45 1993
Location: College of Education Media Center

Title: North Carolina : the tar heel state
Authors: James Killoran, Stuart Zimmer, Mark Jarrett
Notes: Includes Assessment tools, Teacher's manual (contains bibliography and videography), Internet guide, School-year social studies project, Teaching social studies, and The Nystrom atlas of our country.
Call Number: LT6075 .J37 K54 1997
Location: College of Education Media Center

Title: North Carolina : the history of an American state
Authors: John L. Bell, Jr. & Jeffrey J. Crow
Notes: Book (with maps) and teacher resource guide
Call Number: LT6075 .C53 B44 1997
Location: College of Education Media Center

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