Social Studies Final

5 reason to teach history

Judgement: know how to help people develop better judgment

Empathy and self-knowledge: builds children knowledge of the worlds peoples

Imagination: its rich food for the imagination

Agency: The power to take action to do something about personal and public problems

The long view: wisdom and agriculture

Keys to teaching History

Integrating the information and doing

Democracy

The development of American political democracy from colonial times to the present; this includes basic principles and core civic ideas developed through the American revolution.

Why citizenship education

Without democratic citizens, there can be no democracy: They are the force that creates and sustains it!

Why is citizenship education overlooked?

Amid the pressures to increase students scores on academic test. And also assumed that the knowledge, values, attitudes, and skills that citizens need are by-products of the study of toy her schools subjects

Idiocy

Selfishness, citizens who paid no attention to the common good

How does idiocy threaten society

Legal and official citizens that concerned themselves only with themselves and their private life

The purpose of culturally responsive instruction

To help children maintain their cultural and linguistics identities while learning the school curriculum.

Discussion about filed trip

The black House….

Active learning in Social Studies

• Incorporating literacy instruction:Informatik searching and organizing and interpreting

• Incorporating higher-order thinking skills:reading and writing

• Incorporating constructions activities:building activities

Passivism

accepting or allowing what happens or what others do, without active response or resistance.

Importance of teaching Economics

Throughout student lives, they will make economic decisions on a daily basis in their lives as individuals and that decision will impact their lives and the lives of others and in the future

Why teach geography

Understand the spatial settings of people and places on earth people every where want to make sense of their lives and want to understand the world. They’re in and geography helps to know where they are.

LittleRock 9 Central High School

were a group of nine African American students who helped end school segregation by attending Central High School in 1957. Their actions were important because they challenged unfair laws and showed that all kids deserve equal education.

Why teach social studies

The purpose of teaching social studies in elementary education is to help students develop a foundational understanding of the world around them, fostering critical thinking and informed decision-making about societal issues. Additionally, it aims to cultivate active citizenship by encouraging students to engage with diverse cultures, histories, and perspectives.

Principles of democracy

• individual rights

• Equality

• Participation

• Rule of law

• Majority rule

• Accountability

• Justice

• Protection of the public good