Chapter 4

This chapter is about teaching strategies for social studies in the elementary grade levels. I liked the images of the learning activities repository and of the instructional strategies circle web. These give great ideas for teachers to use different activities and strategies for teaching social studies. I could see myself using these strategies for teaching social studies, but also adapting some of them to teach other subjects as well. The art of questioning diagram was a nice visual to represent what a teacher centered classroom vs. a student centered classroom would look like in terms of questions. The other section I liked was the deductive and inductive ways of thinking. In science, most of us use inductive thinking where you have to think of a hypothesis and then build facts and knowledge onto that based on experiments. I think teaching students about these two ways of thinking would be a good way to challenge students to think about a topic in a different way. These two ways allow students to look at topics from a different point of view and allows students to collaboratively work and think about how events connect to one another.