An Electronic CLASP: Connecting Children and Social Studies

Autor/inn/en	Hakes, Judith A.; Eisenwine, Marilyn J.
Titel	An Electronic CLASP: Connecting Children and Social Studies
Quelle	In: Social Studies, 94 (2003) 2, S.90-93 (4 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0037-7996
Schlagwörter	Leitfaden; Unterricht; Lehrer; Teachers; Historians; Electronic Classrooms; Social Studies; History Instruction; Educational Technology; Elementary Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lesson concept; Instruction; Unterrichtsentwurf; Unterrichtsprozess; Teacher; Teachers; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Lehrer; Historian; Historiker; Gemeinschaftskunde; History lessons; Geschichtsunterricht; Unterrichtsmedien; Elementarunterricht
Abstract	Social studies instruction in the elementary school is sometimes far removed from the students' daily lives, and teachers continually search for ideas to create more meaningful learning experiences. That is especially true when students study history, which can often be distant, abstract, and impersonal. As many classroom teachers realize, children learn history more easily by acting as historians and recording information that is relevant to them. Because no social studies text or curriculum guide can personalize the study of history, teachers and students must create child-sized experiences and products. Fortunately, child-sized history happens every day in the classrooms. When teachers label those happenings "Classroom Lore," they can blend information about daily events, stories, jokes, games, artwork, and customized learning into a record of childhood history and artifacts. The children can learn from their past, just as they learn from the recorded past of a city, a state, a nation, and the world. One thing that teachers can do to preserve valuable classroom lore and use it for teaching history is to build an electronic classroom lore and artifacts study project (CLASP) that will better connect children and history. A CLASP can be produced through the use of technology and preserved digitally or with a hard copy, which makes it possible for each child to treasure the class product. The personalized history vehicle provides students with opportunities for learning social studies content, skills, affects, and understandings. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10