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Socrative Review Games for Social Studies

Passion for Social Studies

The Government Review Games and Sociology Review Games are ready to excite students and get them to think critically. It encourages active participation and promotes critical thinking skills. Sociology Review Games Students love learning about interactions with others! Sociology Review Games $ 7.00

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Learning How to Wash Your Hands in Anthropology Class 

Teaching Anthropology

In a 1934 lecture on techniques of the body, for example, Marcel Mauss argued that studies of movement should attend concomitantly to biological, sociological and psychological facets. Anthropologists and others have long been drawn to the pragmatics and theoretics of hygiene. Human hygiene is taken as an example.

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Active learning as a pedagogical strategy to enhance the learning of anthropology

Teaching Anthropology

Marilou Polymeropoulou, University of Oxford, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography Active learning is a well-established pedagogical strategy in secondary and tertiary education where independent learning and critical thinking are nurtured.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics. For instance, we could use the Civilization video games to learn and blog about political power and civics.

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How Lifelong Readers Are Helping Communities Thrive

Digital Promise

1-4, 25-26) While children who visit the library to immerse in their favorite books may not realize it at the time, they’re building the skill of thoughtful reading—the foundation of critical thinking, academic success, and, eventually, a happy and productive adult life. (1, Swan et al. data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.IMRT.IN.

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Want More Innovation? Try Connecting the Dots Between Engineering and Humanities

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A wide range of departments including engineering, anthropology, classics, history, English, sociology and philosophy participate in its teaching. Celebrated innovators such as Einstein, Ada Lovelace and Steve Jobs credit the intersection of disciplines for their inventive thinking.

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19 Ideas for Setting Up Your Social Studies Classroom

Let's Cultivate Greatness

This helps me keep this blog running. Students have the thinking; they just need a word bank! Critical Thinking Skills – Use your wall to support additional skills you develop over the year. These Critical Thinking Skills Poster kit work for any social studies classroom.