Powerful Social Studies
by Elizabeth Dunleavy
1. Challenging
1.1. Making a classroom display about Celebrating Light to be shown in the hallway.
1.2. Determining what holidays in the lesson have in common.
2. Active
2.1. All activities relate to subject
2.2. Students respond to questions and during read aloud
3. Integrative
3.1. Science - to demonstrate Earth's orbit around the Sun relating to darkness of Winter Solstice
3.2. Art - Students drew pictures of what darkness is to them, some also did their favorite season.
4. Value-based
4.1. Discussion of different holidays that occur in winter
5. Meaningful
5.1. Brainstorming about ideas that are related to winter
5.2. What do the holidays have in common?
