It also offers downloadable books for teachers and is an excellent social studies teacher resource. I wanted to say that the National Council for Social Studies offers lesson plans and curriculum standards. It was really set up to teach the children about the election process.Ĭhildren learned from this exercise that their vote mattered and some became very passionate about their candidate. Greenweaver- I remember that my children participated in a national mock election, in order to vote for president of the United States.Įach classroom added up their votes and the school announced the winner. Rich and poor or men and women from the same caste often vote very differently. I follow politics very closely, so I guess some things never change. Social studies was my favorite subject in school, and then I later majored in political science in college.
This was a fun homework assignment because each student got a little bit of attention from the teacher, and we had to discuss aspects of their chosen article. This allowed us to develop dialogue regarding different events and how they relate to our society. I'm glad there seem to be a lot of good social studies teacher resources out there, because it's definitely a subject I want to get right.īrickBack- I remember when I was in elementary school my social studies teacher had us bring in articles from the newspaper that we can discuss in class. I think it's quite a difficult thing to teach properly, because it can be very difficult to find the right balance between addressing what could be considered problems in society, and teaching the students to be good citizens. I'm learning to be a teacher at the moment and civics seems to come under social studies as far as I can see. John J., Saffell, David C., Ph.D., Clayton, Gary E., Ph.D.: Books. They have to learn to make decisions at some point. : Civics Today: Citizenship, Economics, & You Alabama Edition: 9780078662577. And, to be honest, it's their generation that will be calling the shots after we're gone. They thrive in environments where they are allowed to really participate and form opinions, rather than having opinions thrust upon them. Students are smart, if you give them a chance.
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Students need to learn how to process all that information and figure out what it all means to them. The world we live in today has such an abundance of political opinion, it's impossible to avoid it. February 22, - Well, in my mind "getting it right" means opening up a dialogue with the kids and teaching them to think critically about everything, and particularly about politics and other civic matters.
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