Kagan
It's All About Engagement!
Write! Social Studies
Quote and Comment
Write a quotation on the board relating to the topic of study, then have students discuss the quotation in pairs. Students write their analysis or evaluation of the quote and share their writing with teammates. This is a great way to get students thinking about the topic, and can be done daily at the beginning or end of class.
Write! Social Studies
MI & Cooperative Learning Activities
Writing is thinking! Get your students writing and thinking about social studies with this collection of ready-to-use writing activities. Students delve deep into social studies issues as they work cooperatively with teammates on activities like writing the correspondence of two historical characters, publishing and sharing political cartoons, discussing and writing about famous historical quotations. Activities incorporate the multiple intelligences. Writing activities are perfect to start the class, introduce a new concept, end the unit, or use as a sponge activity. Book includes 36 cooperative writing activities with ready-to-use reproducible activity pages, and a brief description of dozens of cooperative learning techniques. 140 pages.