The Importance of Applying Current Events in Social Studies - 4 views
Please refer to link below for the article of reference : http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1051868--new-yorkers-shrug-off-anxieties-as-9-11-milestone-approaches?bn=1
A collection of current electronic resources to support social studies education.
Please refer to link below for the article of reference : http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1051868--new-yorkers-shrug-off-anxieties-as-9-11-milestone-approaches?bn=1
http://www.fox59.com/news/education/wxin-how-to-teach-the-igeneration-20111102%2c0%2c2610062.column
Forgot to add the links: PART 1: http://www.ericdigests.org/2005-2/scoring.html PART 2: http://www.ericdigests.org/2005-2/rubrics.html
Link to article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203914304576631100415237430.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
This article discusses the recent decline in social sciences in Elementary schools in the last decade. Prior to this decline many elementary school teachers viewed social sciences as a significant...
http://www.socialstudies.org/positions/elementary
Teachers have always struggled with finding a way to make teaching and learning history fun. Some interesting history resources include Teen Second Life or materials from the National Archives. As ...
Sorry, I somehow missed the location to paste the link... http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/history-goes-to-head-of-the-heritage-class/article2198082/?from=sec431
Please refer to link below for the article: http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1079030--dropout-rates-rise-with-immigrant-child-s-age-of-arrival
This article looks at the placement of September 11th in the social studies standards in high school classrooms. Though it is not an objective in the LPS social studies standards, many teachers fro...
Duncan, looks critically at the curriculum in The United States, outlining how the social studies have been greatly undervalued. In his perspective, it is crucial that the curricula be expanded so ...
http://www.squidoo.com/teach-geography This is a website that can be used by teachers to get ideas on ways to make geography a little more interesting for students. It provides many different ide...
http://www.socialstudies.org/positions/powerfulandpurposeful Link to article
This article, "Tests show improvements in math, literacy skills," looks at the results of the latest provincial testing indicating that the statistics have slowly been improving over time. However,...
This is an article that discusses the way that geography can be brought into the classroom in regards to the actual set up of the classroom. The article implies that the actual set up of the room c...
The institution of the Africentric School within the Toronto District School Board made its mark in 2009. This week, I wanted to gain more insight into the intentions of the Africentric Alternative...
This blog comes from the UK. It is written in response to a post on SLN geography forum, pulling together all the interesting ideas posted on the forum. Using a powerpoint presentation, 101 creat...