Curriculum: TCI - Social Studies Alive! Our Community and Beyond
Approach: TCI focuses on student-centered, activity-based lessons that incorporate the following six multiple intelligence strategies in the development of key social studies concepts:
Visual Discovery: viewing, touching and interpreting compelling images
Skill Builder: reading maps, categorizing information, analyzing artifacts and primary resources and comparing and contrasting ideas
Experiential Exercise: participation in memorable experiences by acting out events and making connections to the between their feelings during the exercise and a social studies concept
Writing for Understanding: begins with role-playing, discussing complex issues, acting out key events or debating which all act as a spring board for writing about what they have learned
Response Group: Working in small groups, students discuss critical thinking questions
Problem Solving Group Work: Creating and presenting projects designed by a small group where each group member has a special role and contribution