Class Notes Week One

In-Class Notes

What is Social Studies?

A combination of different disciplines

Social Studies is....

• Meaningful-When u connect what students are learning with real world situations. 
• Integrative- It is not just a memorization of facts but incorporating different subject areas. 
• Value-Based-  Make the students become involved citizens and hold them socially responsible. 
• Challenging-  Hold students to a higher standard. 
• Active- Hands-on but also Minds-on 

I believe that it is important as a teacher to incorporate these 5 elements into each lesson. If social studies is not meaningful to students, they will not retain the information.  

How People Learn-What is Learning? 

    Knowledge retained when: 

• Reading-10%
• Audiovisual-20%
• Demonstration-30%
• Discussion-50%
• Practice doing-75%
• Teach others-90% 

Structure of Knowledge: by Jerome Bruner

1. Meta-Cognition-learning about learning thinking about thinking 
2. Generalizations 
3. Concepts
4. Facts