• teach problem solving skills applied to real life
• convey basic knowledge about the history of our nation
• promotes a sense of tolerance and appreciate for differing view points

all are considered to be the...

• Involves using real life settings to enrich classroom instruction
• May also involve service learning projects or volunteer work

• Concepts
• Generalizations
• Intradisciplinary learning (within Social Studies
• Community Approach
• Interdisciplinary learning (learning across the curriculum) and
• Principles

are all...

Role-play, debates, oral history, case studies, field trips, simulations, learning centers, conflict resolution, resource persons, cooperative learning, and inquiry approach

are all strategies for...

This strategy allows for students to step outside their usual perspective and explore issues and ideas from the viewpoint of another

Helps with seeing a situation from another perspective

1. Preparing for the visit beforehand
2. Determining the active engagement students will participate in at the site
3. post visit reflections for evaluation of the experience

What 3 steps involves the process of visiting museums or taking a field trip?

• Provides firsthand knowledge
• from the point of view of the person being interviewed
• reinforces the idea that history was real events  that happened to real people
• may not be historically accurate

The process of asking and answering questions in social studies

Directly promotes understanding of and resembles the scientific method

Skills such as:

• fact and opinion
• cause and effect
• compare and contrast
• making inferences
• decision making skills and
• using statistics

are all what type of skills

• Allows students to determine the soundness of an author's piece
• Can be proved or observed
• Expresses one's personal beliefs

• Use of portfolios for self-assessment and goal setting
• Use of interviews to gather information and
• Use of rubrics

are all...

• Providing feedback
• Providing information to the teacher
• Indicates when to reteach and when to move ahead

are all assessment skills that helps facilitates...

Designed to find out what a student knows

Gives the teacher an opportunity to correct any misunderstandings

• measures a specific objective
• uses a range of indicators
• arranged in levels
• helps students be more thoughtful in judging the quality of their work

• semantic webs or tree diagrams
• time lines
• flowcharts
• venn diagrams

are all common...

• teacher gives description/example of new term
• student restate new term in their own words
• student create a picture of the new word
• students discuss new terms
• use of games and activities to add to knowledge of new term

are all ways for teaching...