Sentences with phrase «traditional social studies classroom»

Through regularly accessing such sites, social studies teachers have the opportunity to bring their students into many projects that go well beyond the confines of the traditional social studies classroom.

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In this randomized controlled study on the impact of the arts on performance in traditional academic subjects, theater arts were integrated into language arts and social studies curricula for fourth - and fifth - grade students (14 experimental classrooms, 14 control classrooms).

Because of available interactive technologies such as the Internet, the social studies classroom has the potential to revitalize the traditional notions of citizenship education that focus on «the documents and procedures of republican government, the accomplishments of our country and typically adopts an assimilationist rather than multicultural view of history» (Cogan, Grossman, & Lei, 2000, p. 50).

If the findings of this study are representative of social studies education and classrooms, then it appears that computers continue to serve the primary function of facilitating students» access to content and remain somewhat relegated to being an appendage to traditional classroom materials.