Social Studies
Social Studies is used in our daily lives as the knowledge provider or teacher because it helps us to understand the society we live in for us to understand how we understand and interpret our world around us. Social Studies also helps us to become an efficient citizen of a democracy, and it also helps us to solve the practical problems in our daily life.
The purpose of teaching Social Studies in elementary level is that Social Studies allows young learners to know their relationship with other people, it also allows them to know their role in the institutionand the society they lived in. Social Studies also molds elementary students to become a responsible citizen.
Teaching Social Studies should be inhance, and should have its own textbooks in elementary level so it would be easy for the young learners to study about Social Studies.
Social Studies helps young people make informed and reasoned decisions for the public good as citizens of a culturally diverse, democratic society in an interdependent world.
What's exciting in Social Studies is that it molds and provides responsible citizen. And it also guides learners for better decesion makings.
While teaching Social Studies teachers should always interact with their learners to provide better instructions to them, and for them to understand easily
Social studies is the study of people in relation to each other and to their world. It is an issues- focused and inquiry-based interdisciplinary subject that draws upon history, geography, ecology, economics, law, philosophy, political science and other social science disciplines.
The contemporary social studies curriculum has its roots in the Progressive education movement of the early twentieth century. With its emphasis on the nature of the individual learner and on the process of learning itself, the movement challenged the assumptions of subject-centered curriculum.
Become a joyful and fun teacher to your students specially when you are about to introduce social studies to your students so they would feel excited about social studies. Also use and interactive learning when you teach social studies.