Constructivist Lesson Plans For Social Studies. In social studies for instance the teacher can choose a student to internalize the role of a popular historical figure and historical event such as the building of the white house while the rest of the class proceeds to fire away questions for the person. The field of social studies is comprised of history political science geography economics anthropology archaeology and psychology.
Technology now offers unprecedented access to historical records and has made the goals of constructivism more attainable. Constructivism is a mind set helping teachers to create lesson plans based on student learning to create problem solvers. This lesson explains the theories of constructivism.
Technology facilitates constructivist s approaches in the history classroom.
Doolittle and hicks 2003 outline six strategies for using technology to advance the basic tenets of constructivism in the social studies classroom. By interacting with others we come to a public understanding and shared sense of what information is right and what is wrong. In this lesson we ll examine constructivism in depth including social learning the zone of proximal development and project based learning. With social constructivist group interaction is the key.
