Kagan
It's All About Engagement!
Write! Social Studies
Court Case Simulation
The decisions of some landmark court cases have altered the history of the United States. In this activity, students work in teams to research a landmark court cases write a script for the case, rehearse it as a team and perform it for the class. By simulating a court case, students become actively engaged in the learning process, and get an insight to the nation’s judicial system.
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.