A class of 30 eager faces turn to you as they await this thing called 'social studies'.
What do you start with?
How do you hook them in to the notion that learning about society might be beneficial?
Do you give it 5 minutes, 1 hour or 1 week?
This might be an odd time to be asking this question - but it is something that may be worth thinking about during the spring holiday, as Term 4 is often a time in which the seeds for planning 2010 units of work will be sown.
There are a number of sources -page 30 of the New Zealand Curriculum (MoE, 2007) is an obvious starter. So too might the 3 'key aspects of learning' from the Social Studies Exemplars .
How might we use these to install an immediate sense of relevance or purpose to studying about society?
Share your experiences and ideas with other teachers of social studies in the comment box below. Better still send WASSA a copy of your 'This is Social Studies' slides and we'll do our best to upload them :-)
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