Teaching Social Studies at the Elementary Level
Dylan Parrish
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Learning Target
Learning Target
The target for this section is to inform the reader on what it is like to teach Social Studies to Elementary aged students and why it is important for them to know these subjects.
On top of those learning targets, my interview learning topic will be based around the same targets stated above.
Examples of Social Studies classes
Examples of Social Studies classes
Art
Civics
Economics
Ethics
Geography
History
Literature
Philosophy
Psychology
Sociology
How Social Studies could help students further understand the world:
The understanding of people, societies, and even their own lives.
People and Society
Moral understanding and Identity
Citizenship and workmanship
(Stearns)
One issue that history has in the aspect of education is that it can be seen as just tedious memorization of facts, which is actually why history was first introduced into education. It has grown to be much more than that though, helping people learn things from the bullet points above.
Watch the video for a quick review of good ways for teaching social studies to elementary aged students.
In the video Ileana Padilla-Boyd goes over ways to engage students, which of these questions is not an example?:
A: Inviting a local leader from your community
B: Have very good reading materials
C: Use colorful material
D: Sing songs
Answer
Answer
D
Question 2: What are some ways teachers could help students be more engaged in a class?
A: The teacher needs to seem more interested and excited about the information.
B: Setting up fun activities.
C: Using cites on the internet that are basically teaching video games.
D: All of the above.
Answer
Answer
D: All of the above.
References
American Historical Association. “Chapter 5: History among the Social Studies: AHA.” Chapter 5: History among the Social Studies | AHA, www.historians.org/about-aha-and-membership/aha-history-and-archives/historical-archives/american-history-in-schools-and-colleges-(1944)/chapter- 5-history-among-the-social-studies.
Gonser, S. (2018, July 12). How social studies can help young students make sense of the world. Retrieved February 16,2021, from https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2018/7/12/21105370/how-social-studies-can-help-young-students-make-sense-of-the-world
Stearns, Peter N. Why Study History? (Washington DC: American Historical Association, 1998)
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