Kagan
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Write! Social Studies
Compare and Contrast
Social Studies is loaded with great topics to compare and contrast. Students can compare and contrast historical events, historical figures, parties, laws and much more. By comparing and contrasting, students learn about the details of topics being studied and develop strong analytical skills. In this activity, students brainstorm how two things are similar and different and write compare and contrast essays on the topic.
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.