Kagan
It's All About Engagement!
Write! Social Studies
Everything Has a History
Did you know that Thomas Edison was not the inventor of electric light? Joseph Wilson Swan from Britain invented a filament lamp in 1878, nearly a year before Edison. In this activity, students research the unique history of a topic, write a summary and share it with teammates.
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.