Interactive Video Activities
Social Studies Methods - Decision Making
(click on the following links to engage in interactive exercise)
Bell Ringers
Bell Ringer - creating disequalibrium:
Bell Ringer - Fourth Amendment
Bell Ringer - Stereotyping and Joan of Arc
Bell Ringer - Dictionary - Small group discussion
Bell Ringer introducing propaganda
Purpose:
Showing your students what they should know by the end of class - propaganda lesson objectives (displayed after bell ringer)
Lecture/Discussion Questioning process
Questioning about Hamilton and money
Questioning - Rosa Parks Activity
Questions in response to quotes
Comparison of three examples of questions for small group discussions
Illiciting student analysis of use of propaganda in advertising
Social Studies Learning Activities
Cooperative learning groups - applying definitions of propaganda
Civics Music Video - Clips of Learning Activities - identify the "real-world" problems solved by students using Civics content and skills
Click to view Civics Culminating Learning Activities - What objectives could these activities meet?
Click the following picture to view "real-world" use of social studies/current events content knoweldge, technology skills, writing skills, and speaking skills, etc.
Click here to view the results of a possible integrative unit with math/technology -- solving real world social problems
Closure
Click here for an example of a closure (or a mental process where learners summarize perception of what’s been taught. This should be a STUDENT summary that is relevant to the objectives. If students have trouble closing the lesson than the objectives may not have been met)
Closure using a KWL chart (What I Know, What I Want to know, and What I Learned) that was also used as a bell ringer to begin the class