Social Studies lesson ideas that can be done online or in real-time

Here are some fun activities for social studies that can help get your student’s engaged in thinking:

Lesson idea 1

 

Teach the student the proper way to analyze an article:

 

Select an article for them to read: have them write out the main points of the article, summarize the article, explain the view point taken by the writer of the article, and select 2 ideas that you agree or disagree with and state why?

This can be followed up by setting up small groups that the students post their 2 ideas in for discussion.

 

Lesson idea 2

Political Philosophy

Objective: The student should develop a political philosophy based on the following premise:

What should be the balance between liberty and order that a society needs to exist?

 

The student’s philosophy should include a reference to the following ideas:

 

The relationship between the government and the state that includes:

  • Characteristics of a state
  • Reasons why governments need to be established
  • Purpose that a government exists
  • The best form of government
    • Unitary, federal, confederate,
    • Parliamentary or presidential system
    • Dictatorship or democracy
  • The concepts of democracy that the student believes in:
    • Majority rule, rule of law

 

Set up discussions for the students using the following Resources:

  • Ideas from the Declaration of Independence
  • Recognition of the early compacts and documents that provided the basis of our political experience- Mayflower Compact, Petition of Right, Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, Maryland toleration Act, and English Bill of Rights
  • Analyze the three basic ideas that the English acquired from the Magna Carta, Petition of Right and the English Bill of Rights
  • Explain the role of compromise in a political system
  • Federalist 71 and its ideas
  • Agree or disagree with the six basic principles upon which the American Constitution was written
  • Examine the Bill of Rights
  • Discuss the amendment process and whether it should be changed
  • Agree or disagree with the concept of federalism, division of powers and concurrent powers.
  • What should be the relationship between the state and federal government that includes: obligations of the federal government to the states, the relationship between the states

Conclusion:

Describe the key ideas from the discussions and readings above that you would predicate your government on and why it would be the most efficient form of government

 

 

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Thanks for this! Do you think these activities would work best for individual work or as collaborative group work?

I like to use a collaborative group work. Here is something I also incorporated into group work. If there were dissenting opinions they were to be mentioned in the groups report too!

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