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Direct linkDavies, Peter; Davies, Rhys – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
"Enlivening Secondary History" is the ideal handbook for busy history teachers who want to do something different in their classrooms, but have little time to plan and organise their lessons. Featuring tried-and-tested practical ideas complete with relevant exemplars and step-by-step advice, this best-selling book is a compendium of creative…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Secondary Education, Guides, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedCacha, Frances B. – Social Studies, 1976
Elementary students role-playing people celebrating various holiday seasons of different cultures can learn social science concepts. (JR)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Cultural Awareness, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedSisk, Dorothy – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1975
Descriptors: Class Activities, Concept Formation, Creative Thinking, Elementary Education
Brown, Margarette; Singleton, Judy – Today's Education, 1977
A teacher describes the teaching techniques she uses in an eight-grade English class composed of learning-disabled students. (JD)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Concept Formation, Grade 8, Learning Disabilities
Peer reviewedGretes, John A.; And Others – Social Science Record, 1991
Presents results of a study of whether simulation leads to improved understanding of economic concepts among fifth grade students. Reports that simulations were used in instructing 300 children in 10 classes in the southeastern United States. Concludes that the use of simulations and role-playing activities increased student performance in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Research, Concept Formation, Economics Education
Peer reviewedMoore, Mitzi Ruth – Science Scope, 1992
Proposes having students perform skits in which they play the roles of the science concepts they are trying to understand. Provides the dialog for a skit in which hot and cold gas molecules are interviewed on a talk show to study how these properties affect wind, rain, and other weather phenomena. (MDH)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Dramatics, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools
Download full textHart, Diane; Alderson, Jan, Ed. – 1998
This interactive curriculum has been developed to teach students about one of their most important rights as citizens, trial by jury. Knowledge about this right is critical since most of today's students will be called to serve on juries at some point in their lives. The curriculum's goal is to help students understand the history and value of…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Citizenship Education, Concept Formation, Court Litigation
Peer reviewedAtwood, Virginia A.; And Others – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 1989
Demonstrates a thematic approach, using soup as the theme, to integrate and correlate elementary social studies with other subject areas. Outlines four soup activities, presenting goals, materials, strategies, and extensions of each. Stresses how integrated curricula effectively develops skills such as observing, inferring, serial ordering, and…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Cooking Instruction, Cooperative Learning, Dramatics
Plourde, Lynn – 1985
Developed by a speech-language pathologist, this oral language program for students in grades K-2 contains more than 200 field-tested activities designed for whole-class use. Listening and speaking activities are arranged in developmental order and grouped according to the following 12 areas: vocabulary, concepts, listening, giving and following…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Concept Formation, Grammar, Instructional Materials
