Wikispace Showcase

Wikispace ShowcaseMelanie HadjesEDEL 453Spring 2013

Interesting Quote: According to the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS; 1994), powerful teaching and learning experiences are created when social studies is meaningful, integrative, value-based, challenging, and active.

Social Studies is the study of how humans interact with: each other (Civics), in time (History), money (Economics), and with the world (Geography). ~Melanie Hadjes

~Making Connections in Elementary and Middle School Social Studies A. Johnson page 3.Making Connections in Elementary and Middle School Social StudiesAndrew P. Johnson2

Dennis the Constitutional Peasant from Monty Python 1975 is a funny recap of systems of government.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOOTKA0aGI0All things economics

Why I want to be a teacher

Awesome Social Studies websiteshttp://www.apples4theteacher.com/usa-states/nevada/ http://www.internet4classrooms.com/social_general.htm http://www.onlinenevada.org/cms/apps/media_editor_plus/media_gallery_index.php?catid=2# http://teachers.net/lessonplans/subjects/social_studies/

All things geographyAll things historyAll things civics