100 Experiential Learning Activities for Social Studies, Literature, and the Arts, Grades 5-12

Active learning promotes critical thinking, deep understanding, and transfer to real-life situations of knowledge about such important issues as social justice, culture, language, diversity, the arts, economics, and science and technology. The authors have compiled 100 ready-to-use units that address critical social issues. All lessons emphasize comprehension, comparison, and transfer across disciplinary boundaries and include extension activities, a listing of resources, and suggestions for pacing and time management.\n\nGene Provenzo is one of the nation’s leading scholars in the foundations of education. He holds the rank of full professor at the University of Miami. He has won numerous awards throughout his career in both teaching and research and sits on many editorial boards. He has authored over ten books and has contributed chapters to many more. He has authored scores of articles in a wide range of areas in education. His recent projects include Teaching, Learning, and Schooling (Allyn & Bacon, 2002), a critically-oriented introduction to the foundations of education textbook, and the forthcoming Readings in Educational Thought (SAGE, 2005).\n\nPreface\n\nAcknowledgments\n\nAbout the Authors\n\nIntroduction\n\nMatrices\n\nNCSS\n\nMcRel\n\n1. Creating a Language\n\n2. Point-of-View Pictures\n\n3. Rosie the Riveter\n\n4. Columbus and the Discovery of the New World\n\n5. How Is History Portrayed? Columbus and the Discovery of the New World\n\n6. Spanglish\n\n7. Slave Narratives\n\n8. The Paradox of Theseus’s Ship\n\n9. Creating an Personal Historical Timeline\n\n10. Poems Inspired by Art\n\n11. Art Inspired by Poetry\n\n12. The Paradox of Infinity\n\n13. Point of View and Cultural Perspectives\n\n14. Final Flight of Yamamoto: Should We Have Struck Back?\n\n15. Double Consciousness: Examining Oneself and the Concept of Privilege\n\n16. The Fable of the Blind Men and the Elephant\n\n17. Creating a System of Writing\n\n18. Magic and Technology\n\n19. The Birthday Paradox\n\n20. Mobius Strip and Different Perspectives\n\n21. Thinking Out of the Paradigm: The Columbus Egg Problem\n\n22. Arthur C. Clarke’s First Law\n\n23. Is Technology Neutral?\n\n24. Writing a Letter to the Editor\n\n25. Science Fiction and Literature as the Future\n\n26. Creating a Political Broadside\n\n27. Exploring the Great Depression\n\n28. Family Photographs\n\n29. Women’s Rights\n\n30. Today in History\n\n31. Photographs of the Farm Security Administration\n\n32. Primary and Secondary Sources\n\n33. Thinking Outside the Box\n\n34. Riddles\n\n35. Exploring Community Festivals\n\n36. Rebuses and Concrete Writing\n\n37. Mnemonics\n\n38. Designing a Memorial\n\n39. Stepping Into a Painting\n\n40. Japanese Internment During World War II\n\n41. ASCII Code\n\n42. Protest Songs\n\n43. Inaugural Presidential Address\n\n44. Portals to the World\n\n45. Stories From Childhood\n\n46. Round-Robin Stories\n\n47. Writing Grab Bag\n\n48. Using Census Data\n\n49. Explore a Favorite Artist\n\n50. What Makes a Good Life?\n\n51. Creating an Ethical Will\n\n52. Written in Stone\n\n53. Photographic Timeline\n\n54. 1900\n\n55. Ninety-Five Theories\n\n56. Analyzing the New England Primer (1692)\n\n57. Slavery in the Constitution?\n\n58. How Crowded Was the Middle Passage?\n\n59. The List of Creepy Coincidences\n\n60. Sacrifices\n\n61. The Classroom Missile Crisis\n\n62. Listening to Sources?\n\n63. Personal Timelines: A Puzzle?\n\n64. Movies as a Window Into History\n\n65. Writing Their Own Script\n\n66. Write Obituaries\n\n67. Take a Trip to Mars\n\n68. CIA Fact Book\n\n69. Talking to an Expert\n\n70. Famous Last Words\n\n71. Columbus and Culture\n\n72. Collage\n\n73. Making Models\n\n74. The World Without Human Life\n\n75. Creating the Scene for a Story\n\n76. How Long Is a Thousand Years?\n\n77. Creating a Dadaist Poem\n\n78. War Stories\n\n79. Editorial Cartoons as Social Commentary\n\n80. True or False\n\n81. Creating Codes\n\n82. What Is the Law?\n\n83. When Is the Law the Law?\n\n84. Symbols in Our Culture\n\n85. Symbols on Our Money\n\n86. What’s on the Stamp?\n\n87. Place Names\n\n88. Art Museums of the World\n\n89. America’s Attic\n\n90. Written in Stone\n\n91. Photographic Community Timeline\n\n92. The Sounds of Silence\n\n93. What’s in a Name?\n\n94. More What’s in a Name?\n\n95. Crazy Inventions\n\n96. Idioms\n\n97. Famous Inventions and Their Impact on the World\n\n98. What Is in Good Taste?\n\n99. Creating a Self-Portrait\n\n100. Found Art\n\nReferences\n\n Reviews There are no reviews yet. Be the first to review “100 Experiential Learning Activities for Social Studies, Literature, and the Arts, Grades 5-12” Cancel replyYour email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *Your rating * Rate… Perfect Good Average Not that bad Very poor Your review *Name * Email * Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.