Student Engagement Strategies
Presentation Strategies
Podcasts- are valuable tools for teaching students to use spoken language to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences and for different purposes.
Storyboards- help students keep track of important content in a narrative form and highlight important information. They help students summarize and retain main ideas of their reading.
Communication Strategies
Questioning the Author- This is a comprehensive strategy that asks students to pose questions while reading a given text, helping to solidify their knowledge and challenge their understanding, rather than after reading. This strategy also aims to engage all students through interactions within the classroom.
Collaboration Strategies
Project Based Learning- is a wonderful strategy that helps promote collaboration, communication, and critical thinking. This is a link to Intel Education which offers interactive tools, resources and strategies to help promote project based learning activities in the classroom.
Interaction Strategies
Book Builder- This site helps promote reading and student interaction by allowing students to create, share, publish, and read digital books that engage and support diverse learners according to their individual needs, interests, and skills.
Simulations and Interactives- Students can interact with a multitude of games, simulations and quizzes that help promote deeper understandings of social science content, along with developing empathy, perspective and critical-thinking skills.
Collection Strategies
Finding Primary Sources- There are many different types of primary sources and may different ways to utilize them in social studies, but accessing them at times can be difficult. This process is made much easier searching on the internet. searches can be streamlined, and many different sources from all over can be accessed.
Document analysis- utilizing primary sources is a wonderful tool in social studies, but sometimes students need a guide for successful analysis. Document analysis forms provide student with a guide to finding important information in primary documents.
Podcasts- are valuable tools for teaching students to use spoken language to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences and for different purposes.
Storyboards- help students keep track of important content in a narrative form and highlight important information. They help students summarize and retain main ideas of their reading.
Communication Strategies
Questioning the Author- This is a comprehensive strategy that asks students to pose questions while reading a given text, helping to solidify their knowledge and challenge their understanding, rather than after reading. This strategy also aims to engage all students through interactions within the classroom.
Collaboration Strategies
Project Based Learning- is a wonderful strategy that helps promote collaboration, communication, and critical thinking. This is a link to Intel Education which offers interactive tools, resources and strategies to help promote project based learning activities in the classroom.
Interaction Strategies
Book Builder- This site helps promote reading and student interaction by allowing students to create, share, publish, and read digital books that engage and support diverse learners according to their individual needs, interests, and skills.
Simulations and Interactives- Students can interact with a multitude of games, simulations and quizzes that help promote deeper understandings of social science content, along with developing empathy, perspective and critical-thinking skills.
Collection Strategies
Finding Primary Sources- There are many different types of primary sources and may different ways to utilize them in social studies, but accessing them at times can be difficult. This process is made much easier searching on the internet. searches can be streamlined, and many different sources from all over can be accessed.
Document analysis- utilizing primary sources is a wonderful tool in social studies, but sometimes students need a guide for successful analysis. Document analysis forms provide student with a guide to finding important information in primary documents.