Tuesday, February 6, 2007
What is your class currently studying in Social Studies?
I was just curious about what topics are being covered in your social studies class. Right now my class is finishing up the Revolutionary War. On my first day of observation they were comparing and contrasting loyalists and patriots. The students did this by creating a T chart and listing important details about both sides. Just recently the students presented their own Revolutionalry War game. The class had to create some type of game(game show or board game) about the revolutionary war. The students were given the choice to work alone or in small groups of two or three. They had the freedom to choose whatever game they wanted as long as it contained 40 questions regarding the revolutionary war. Some of the games I observed were Jeopardy, boardgames using monopoly pieces, and the game of life with a revoultionary war twist. This was a very fun and exciting project. It was obvious that the students had a great time creating and playing these games. I have a copy of the rubric and directions available and will try to post these in the future.Reply back and let me know what grade you are observing and what is going on in your classroom regarding social studies? What topics are your students currently studying? What instrucional activities are being used to teach these topics? How are the students being assessed?
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3 comments:
Chris,
Now this is a great post. It is thoughtful and engaging. I like you observations - I really like the idea of a game show. That is a cool idea.
Our class is studying monuments of the United States right now, and this is third grade. I think that the game show idea is great and that you will have a lot of fun with it.
Ignore the last part of my comment, got a little confused, meant to say that sounded like it would be a lot of fun to see the students coming up with their own games. Children are very creative and have great ideas.
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