SOCIAL STUDIES MOVEMENT ACTIVITIES
1. Demonstrations:
The act of teaching students by showing an example. Instead of lecturing to your students all about the British governing the people in Upper and Lower Canada. Demonstrate this by going through the voting process, by doing it in class and they understand the government better. You can come back to it later and students will remember and did not even know they were learning. In Grade One, you can teach about rural and urban by having student situated in urban and rural centers so they can visualize the difference.
2. Dramatization or Role Playing:
Using drama with older students makes class more interesting and sometimes students even forget that they are learning. Find skits or reader's theatres online or create them yourself. It can be as simple as creating a one-liner about Sir. John A. Macdonald about what he did. By changing it up and students getting out of their seats, students will remember what they learned.
This can be done for terms and concepts, create a movement for each term and concept and go over them in class repeatedly. For example, for community you could have students join hands in a circle and globalization students could create their symbols using ASL; it would be a great way to get students interested in their work by creating concept symbols.
3. Games
The act of teaching students by showing an example. Instead of lecturing to your students all about the British governing the people in Upper and Lower Canada. Demonstrate this by going through the voting process, by doing it in class and they understand the government better. You can come back to it later and students will remember and did not even know they were learning. In Grade One, you can teach about rural and urban by having student situated in urban and rural centers so they can visualize the difference.
2. Dramatization or Role Playing:
Using drama with older students makes class more interesting and sometimes students even forget that they are learning. Find skits or reader's theatres online or create them yourself. It can be as simple as creating a one-liner about Sir. John A. Macdonald about what he did. By changing it up and students getting out of their seats, students will remember what they learned.
This can be done for terms and concepts, create a movement for each term and concept and go over them in class repeatedly. For example, for community you could have students join hands in a circle and globalization students could create their symbols using ASL; it would be a great way to get students interested in their work by creating concept symbols.
3. Games
