Methoda....

Social Studies can be a boring topic for many students...

We have a new first year social studies teacher in our district that has integrated some new ideas in the way that she teaches her students social studies. The kids love her because she makes it more real to them. The students are on a unit studying cultures at the moment. They have to research the culture, basic stuff - religion, economy, politics, etc...and then with those facts have to write a story about a day in the life of a teenager (their age), and present it to the class.

She "sparked" their interest in this by doing a little research herself and made her own presentation to the class about a teen living in Russia in the early 1900s. When the students entered the class, she was dressed in period costume, and then pretened she was a teacher in Russia...it was pretty neat.

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