Hey Everyone,
I got together with a friend yesterday and we worked on ideas for Social Studies Activity centers. These centers are important fo hands on involvement with our students. I am a big activist of hands on interaction in teaching. First, we sat down and divided up the centers in primary sections: Mapping Skills, Biographical Information, Primary/Secondary resources, government, and the last is a changeable one. In this case since we are planning around explorationand colonization we chose the Native Americans.
The next thing we did is break down what we wanted to teach. We used the text book, Social studies resources we have used and created over the years to assist and websites. Note- It is very important that if you use a website for a game or center that you give the proper citing to it. These people worked hard to create the site and you are plagarizing if you borrow without giving due recognition.
Tomorrow I will post some of the ideas we came up with.
Have a great Day!
Becky
