A COLLECTION FOR ENRICHING THE SOCIAL STUDIES CLASSROOM: INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNIQUES IN GEOGRAPHY EDUCATION
Abstract
Having explained clearly in researches, unfortunately, social studies education, as one of the major part of primary education, is not going further than a boring lesson for students. In fact, students expressed that they like social studies education; however, because of classical teaching techniques used in classroom they do not concentrate on adequately for lessons. According to many educators when students actively involve lessons learn better – learn faster and gain greater satisfaction. The purpose of this study is to offer some alternate instructional techniques and some activities can be used in application of these techniques for geography education, which is an important part of social studies education, in order to find practical solutions for problems aforementioned above. In this study, respectively, use of map and globe, form of using computer and other technologies, and integration of different methods as music, role playing and folklore in geography education is given with extended literature review.
Keywords
Social studies,geography,alternative instructional techniques,technology
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