Kagan
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Write! Social Studies
Advantages and Disadvantages
There are many expressions labeling the dilemma of dealing with the dual nature of decision making. We say, “You have to take the good with the bad.” Or “There are two sides to every coin.” Or, “The ends justify the means.” Or, “This is a gray area.” In this activity, students list the advantages and disadvantages on the issue, then write a paper taking a stand.
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.