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This includes PreK-5 Social Studies activities that educators can use for their lesson.

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Different activities to make social studies FUN for kids!

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Social studies is such a fun subject area to teach to first graders. It's an important study that allows students to see who they are in this big world and how we all relate together. Common first-grade social studies themes include family and community, and how we can live and work together. Through this content area, students will develop basic skills in economics, civics, history, and geography. You can really have fun with this subject area because the content is so relatable to the kids! I want to share with you some of my favorite first-grade social studies activities I've used in my classroom throughout the years.

1. Engaging Map Skills Activities

Just like learning basic math facts, map skills are a foundational skill that students learn in the primary grades. It also helps build their spatial reasoning skills which will be helpful for years to come. Even though we may have grown up using paper maps on road trips, this generation of kids is much more likely to pull out their phones to open a map for directions. And on top of that, the GPS will likely tell them exactly where to go. But even with this technology available, students still benefit from learning map skills. You can find out more about how I teach maps in my classroom in this post.

My Beginning Map Skills unit is designed to be an informative and exciting introduction to map skills. Your students will be exposed to items on a map, compass rose, cardinal directions, map keys, map scale, and differentiating between a map and a globe. In addition, they will work on reading maps and creating their own maps. They will create their own map lapbook or interactive notebook as a way to collect all of their learning.

Bring Map Skills to Life

One of my favorite social studies activities year after year is the building of the 3D town from this map unit. My students get so excited about building their own community and watching it come to life! There are many different ways you can use this interactive activity.

Create one 3D town as a class. Let each student be part of creating homes and buildings. You can make a fictional town or recreate your own town! Once done, move the finished city to your center rotation, add some small people and cars, and let students use the class creation to reinforce what they learned.

You can also let students create their own 3D town that highlights their home, the school, and a few other important places in your community. Let students use their 3D city as a tool to help explain directions, practice position words, or as the start of a writing activity.

You can find all of these map activities in one resource. The unit includes a mini book, printable activities, 3D town activity, map skills lap book, a writing activity, and digital map skills activities.

2. Learning About Continents and Oceans

Our students need to have an understanding of the world around them. While we start with the local community and family unit, it's not long before we begin working our way out to our city, state, nation, continent, and planet. Teaching continents and oceans is an important part of understanding this amazing planet we live on. It connects science and social studies as students begin to understand the place in space our earth holds.

Understanding that there are different continents is also the foundation for learning about different cultures. And by teaching our students about different cultures, we can build the foundation for an accepting and open frame of mind as we expose our students to people groups, activities, holidays, foods, and other things that aren't part of their daily lives.

While it may not seem like we can accomplish all that with continents and oceans, it's always a good idea to keep the scope and sequence in mind. This includes how grade levels build on one another too!

Yep - our study of oceans and continents might be foundational, but we want to build a solid foundation that our global citizens can stand firmly on. I have pulled all of my favorite resources for teaching oceans and continents into one hands-on and engaging unit. It has everything you need to lay a strong foundation in these topics.

The unit includes everything you need to teach about continents and oceans. All you have to do is print and teach! You will have access to vocabulary cards, mini books, printable practice activities, answer keys, 3D Continent and Oceans Map activity, Map Lap Book, and writing extension activities.

In addition to the lessons in the unit, I love connecting our class lessons with engaging videos and books. This is a great video for teaching the seven continents to add to your social studies activities.

And there's no better way to help students learn and remember facts than through song. Check out these amazing songs for the oceans and continents that will have your students singing along in no time.

3. Teaching About Citizenship

I could spend all day talking about this one. This is one of those important life skills that starts at a young age. How awesome that we get to teach it as a first-grade social studies activity! It is never too early to start teaching kids the important values of citizenship such as honesty, compassion, integrity, respect, and responsibility.

Honestly, this theme is always alive and well in my classroom. We are constantly talking about what it means to be a good citizen within our classroom community, and how we can be better for each other. It is easy to teach this unit in social studies because the themes are built into our everyday classroom life.

I change the unit slightly each year by incorporating different books for read-aloud, but the foundation for our Good Citizenship Unit stays the same. We cover so many topics as part of our citizenship unit. Some of the main topics include: What is a citizen?; Rules and Laws; and Leaders. You can find all of the activities I use in this comprehensive unit.

The unit includes a variety of fun and engaging activities including mini books, sorting activities, printables, Good Citizen record books, headbands, brag tags, and a unit review craft activity!

A few of my favorite books on this topic include:

4. Economics and Financial Literacy

None of these social studies has more day-to-day life connections than economics and financial literacy. First grade is a great time to introduce these important topics. Some of your students may have already started to do a few chores at home and earn a little money. This is a great opportunity to teach them about financial responsibility along with needs versus wants and the difference between goods and services. I love to use this engaging unit to teach personal finance and economics.

This resource includes 5 units that cover important topics like needs vs. wants, goods, and services, earning money, money and bartering, and food production.

Whew - that's a lot! Plus there is a bonus supply and demand activity too! I usually spend 3-4 weeks (or more) on these topics so we can really dig into each concept. About a week on each topic, give or take a day, works really for giving students time to understand and practice these skills.

I love to use the included lap book used as the culminating activity. It is great to show off at an open house or parent conferences too. You can't go wrong with this jam-packed Economics and Financial Literacy resource!

5. Time Concepts: Past, Present, and Future

The concept of time can be a confusing one for kiddos in the primary grades. They are often confused about when tomorrow is or when yesterday was? And getting them to understand how long 5 minutes is - well that's just another story. But instead of focusing on the quantity represented by time, we can start more general with the ideas of past, present, and future. Before you know it they will have a good grasp of the vocabulary and be spouting off their new knowledge to anyone who will listen.

The Past, Present & Future Bundle is a collection of all the best activities I've used to teach these abstract concepts. I've saved you the time of the lessons that flopped or just led to confusion and pulled in the only activities I use to teach these concepts now.

This unit includes vocabulary and definition cards, picture sorting cards, an interactive past, present & future mini-book, as well as 3 worksheets and answer keys for identifying past, present, and future.

These are engaging hands-on activities that your students will love! I like to introduce these as a whole class during our lesson. Then, I move them into our center rotation so that students get individual practice and review of the concepts.

Save these First Grade Social Studies Ideas

There are a lot of resources and ideas here! In many schools, these concepts cover almost an entire year of first-grade social studies. Pin this to your favorite classroom Pinterest board so you can quickly and easily come back throughout the year as you are planning your social studies lessons.

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5 Activities for First Grade Social Studies

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Engage your first grade students in some fun, hands-on activities that will help them master important social studies skills and concepts.

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Consists of current and previous activities that aligns with STANDARDS!

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I haven’t done a focus on the standards since before Thanksgiving, the holidays have a way of distracting me! I thought that we could pick up where we left off - so here are some activities for another social studies standard.Remember, the Standards that I use every day, and am most comfortable with are Ohio’s

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The video is about George who is finding his way out of the corn maze. This is relatable for most kids!

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What is a Map? 🐵 Curious George 🐵Kids Cartoon 🐵 Kids Movies 🐵Videos for Kids

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COMMUNITY explained with 'WE DO' activity!

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COMMUNITY explained with 'WE DO' activity!

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The video explains what a community is and what consists a community. This is good for a whole class review!

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What is a Community? | Communities & Neighbors | Social Studies for 1st Grade | Kids Academy

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This website has many resources for all subjects!

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Printable lesson planners, student agenda pages, gradebook charts, student awards, and more

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Lesson Plans, activities, worksheets and MORE!

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FUN and CREATIVE way to learn Social Studies

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FUN and CREATIVE way to learn Social Studies

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First Grade Social Studies Activities - Kristen Sullins Teaching

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Time-saving tips for teaching first grade social studies to create easy and engaging social studies lessons with cut and paste and writing.

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This website is FREE and helps with teacher rubric making, exit tickets, and MORE!

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Great idea to show off student's CULTURE.

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Each kid shares a part of their culture with everyone for them to learn!

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Little 2nd grade Social Studies Thinkers is a complete social studies curriculum for 2nd grade. It includes scripted lesson plans for the teacher, nonfiction read aloud books that can be printed or projected, PowerPoints to go with each lesson, as well as lesson activities and more.

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Resources that includes ELL, SEL, and for homeschool

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2nd Grade Social Studies | Teaching Resources & Activities

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Making it FUN for 2nd graders!

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56 Social studies 2nd. grade projects ideas | social studies, teaching social studies, social studies activities

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Making Social Studies Engaging with Technology and Hands-On Activities

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A collaborative blog that shares teaching ideas and resources geared to third grade teachers and students.

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This is a search engine that kids can use without the worry of what might pop-up!

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3rd grade friendly topics they can practice.

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BrainPOP’s Social Studies Movies discuss culture and how people behave in society. Learn about great historical figures, world history, and even geography!

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An elementary social studies curriculum should provide students with the basic elements of geography, history, civics and economics, and introduce the three branches of the U.S. government. It should also highlight past civilizations and reflect on how those societies have impacted our modern culture, politics, social norms and institutions.

The National Council for the Social Studies states that: "Skills that enhance critical thinking, socio-emotional development, prosocial skills, interpersonal interactions, and information literacy are more meaningful and useful when developed within the context of social studies." And it's important to begin the development of those essential skills early on in elementary social studies.

The following information will provide a summary for each grade level of elementary school social studies, and feature the benefits of choosing Time4Learning as your curriculum of choice.

Teaching Social Studies in 2nd Grade

Time4Learning immediately begins the process of building a strong foundation in elementary school social studies by introducing concepts such as identifying basic human needs for survival. Students learn how needs such as food, clothing and shelter can be attained and why they're important for all societies.

Critical thinking skills are sharpened as students compare and contrast locations on a map and identify map symbols. They also practice using cardinal and intermediate directions to pinpoint specific places such as states, continents, countries and oceans. When teaching social studies in elementary school with Time4Learning, you'll also complete additional activities such as:

Recognizing and naming prominent buildings, statues and monuments such as the White House, the Lincoln Memorial and the American flag.

Identifying and describing the reasons for various national holidays such as Independence Day.

Identifying and explaining the reasons for cultural holidays that people celebrate within the United States such as Cinco de Mayo.

Researching the different jobs that exist in our communities and explaining how these jobs contribute to our society as a whole.

Learn more about our 2nd grade elementary social studies curriculum.

Teaching Social Studies in 3rd Grade

In third grade, social studies builds off the previous year by using geographic tools such as maps and atlases to collect data about the earth's surface. You'll also introduce your students to geographic terminology such as peninsula and island, and have your children point out examples on a map.

Economics is also introduced in elementary social studies during grade 3. Concepts such as the role of banking in our society, how supply and demand affects prices, and the relationship between natural resources and the products they produce will be covered amongst other topics. Your children will also learn about:

Earth's climate and its physical features

The different regions of the United States

The events that led to the birth of our nation

The reasons for and various forms of government

Local, state, and federal laws

The role consumers and producers play in the economy

Learn more about the 3rd grade social studies curriculum.

Teaching Social Studies in 4th Grade

In 4th grade social studies, your children will delve deep into Mesopotamian culture, government and the environment where they lived, which included the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. The Egyptian culture will also be covered along with the Mayan, Aztec and Incan cultures.

From there, your elementary social studies students will begin the serious study of geography. They'll focus on using latitude and longitude, practicing geographic terminology such as plateau and channel - and pointing these features out on a map. They will continue to learn more about economics and also begin their United States civics lessons.

In addition, your children will focus on topics such as:

The United States revolutionary period.

The reason why revolutions occur. For example, students will cover such controversial topics as the Stamp Act, the Townshend Act, the Boston Tea Party and more.

The Battles of Bunker Hill and Lexington and Concord.

The Constitution and the main features, such as checks and balances, that are included in it.

The function of economics in our current society.

The possible influence of current events in our everyday lives.

Learn more about the 4th grade social studies curriculum.

Teaching Social Studies in 5th Grade

As your children progress through their education, they should have an elementary social studies curriculum that is preparing them for the rigors of middle school. By concentrating on the four key elements of social studies, geography, history, civics and economics, Time4Learning will have your children up-to-speed and ready to take on the next stage of their education.

In 5th grade your students will focus on topics such as ancient Greece, U.S. history, politics and economics. They'll also take part in entertaining and informative activities that cover the economic role of government, entrepreneurship, world geography and political science. Additional subjects in 5th grade social studies include:

China's first dynasty, the Shang/Zhou dynasty.

The struggle for power in the Egyptian and Nubian region.

The movement to end slavery during the 1800's.

Women's rights and the significance of the Seneca Falls convention.

How groups of people help create a government's public policy .

The outside influences that impact how consumers choose different products.

Learn more about the 5th grade social studies curriculum.

Why Choose Time4Learning's Elementary Social Studies Curriculum?

Time4Learning helps motivate elementary school students to learn more about the different cultures and history of places around the world. Our aim is to enable parents and students to understand past and current events, participate in the community and make informed decisions about the world around them.

Many parents agree that providing a curriculum that is interactive, entertaining and flexible is more likely to keep their children motivated and focused on learning. Time4Learning offers hundreds of dynamic lessons that combine videos, worksheets, online activities and one-on-one classroom-style instruction, which keep your kids happily engaged.

Additional benefits include:

As a Full Curriculum

Fully-online program that gives students the flexibility to continue their lessons wherever and whenever they want.

On-screen teachers feature graphic organizers to introduce lesson goals and lesson organization in an easy to understand manner.

Parents can easily divide their automatically generated reports by subject or date to help coordinate their homeschool portfolios.

Student-paced learning so your children can take their time mastering the lessons.

Students have the option to redo lessons if they don't achieve a satisfactory grade.

Affordable monthly membership plan that includes automated grading and reporting for busy parents.

Design an individualized curriculum that complements your child's learning style.

Our automated system takes care of many administrative duties, as it not only teaches your students it also generates grades and reports for you.

As a Supplement

Lessons begin with preliminary activities to engage students and activate or build on prior knowledge.

Students can access their lessons 24/7, making it great for learning at any time day or evening.

Parents are free to tailor the lessons to fit their child's needs or use the suggested sequence of courses that are readily available for review.

Select different grade levels for each subject to meet the specific learning needs of your child.

Students can pause and repeat lessons, quizzes and tests to ensure mastery.

The entertaining online lessons and interactive activities motivate students to learn for longer periods of time if necessary.

Can be used as a summer learning tool or as an afterschool program to help struggling students.

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The United States is famously a nation of immigrants, which makes learning about immigration stories an engaging and fun activity-after all, if you go back a handful of centuries, we're all descendants of immigrants!

Explain the reasons why different groups of people have immigrated to America throughout history, why they chose to leave their home country and the process of adjusting to a new country.

One of the best ways for young learners to connect with their own heritage and learn more about the heritages of other groups is by reading stories written by or about immigrants or the children of immigrants.

6. Interview a Historical Figure

Start by finding a famous piece of historical art, poetry, music or anything else showing the creative effects of a historical event. Share this artifact and its surrounding context with your class so they'll have a better understanding of what it means now and what it represented at the time.

Next, set the scene: your students are junior reporters in a year contemporary to when the artifact was created or when it gained popularity. Their first assignment is to interview the creator of the artifact! They can ask questions about the person's experience, their inspirations or anything else they think is important enough to print in the newspaper.

7. Current Events

The present is a type of history, just as worth paying attention to as the past and the future. Get your students interested in what's happening in the world right now by asking everyone to choose an article about current events to present to the rest of the class.

Set a topic or a challenge or let your students have free reign to choose whatever they're most interested in talking about. After a bit of close reading, they should have no trouble explaining the who, what, when, where and why of the topic or event they want to share. Encourage other students to ask follow-up questions, identify patterns or connections between articles and make other observations about what's happening.

Classbooks make for a great time capsule for your classroom, and this particular classbook will be an especially effective time capsule, as it will contain your students' thoughts on events that were current at the time!

8. Ruler for a Day

Have all of your students pretend they've just been crowned the sole and sovereign ruler of a small, largely unknown country after it was discovered they were distantly related to the previous ruler. Now that they're in charge and no one can say different, what rules will they establish in their country?

9. Class Constitution

Your students can participate in their own mini democracy by helping to write your class constitution! The existing classroom rules are a good place to start, along with positive mantras and affirmations that will encourage a supportive classroom community. Once the constitution is written, create a display version on a large piece of butcher paper with fancy script writing. Students can all sign their names in their favorite color!

Ideas to include in your class constitution:

10. Historical Journal

As you progress through history, ask your students to write journal entries as if they're a contemporary person living in that time period. They can write about daily life activities, the community and larger historical events that would have recently happened. Have some fun by encouraging them to predict future events when you know something big is going to happen in the next lesson.

11. Economics: The Basics

Start out simply with an illustrated cheat sheet of economic terms. On a piece of paper, your students will write the words "Goods," "Services," "Producer," "Consumer," "Supply" and "Demand." Explain each term and have students write a short explanation and draw something to represent that term.

Once you have the cheat sheets all finished up, give students a sentence or two with an economics scenario and have them identify each economic term in the sentence. After your kids get the hang of it, get a little tricky if you want to! Even a short statement like "Chocolate was sold out at the store" involves five of the terms.

12. Then or Now?

While it seems like this would be an easy task, sometimes photos can be deceiving, especially if you're willing to get a little sneaky by showing viral "time traveler" photos!

Every few years, a photo will go viral when the internet gets excited about seeing someone in the 1940s wearing sunglasses and a t-shirt, which they've identified as evidence of time travel. Of course, there are sadly much less fantastical explanations for this that don't include time travel, such as sunglasses having been invented in the 1920s and t-shirts beginning to be mass produced in the 1910s.

13. Just Add Music

There are plenty of ways to add music to social studies lessons, and there are plenty of benefits you'll see from doing so. The novelty of adding music to any lesson will help it stand out in your students' minds, and music played at a low volume during learning has been shown to improve recall and retention of information.

Playing music that matches your lesson-such as historical music from the time period you're learning about or classical music paired with a math lesson-helps students build a better understanding of context, resulting in deeper learning.

Besides background music, also consider teaching your class songs that were popular during historical times and explaining the songs' meanings and contexts. The final form of music is, of course, catchy mnemonics set to simple tunes: there are songs about the bill of rights, the fifty states and anything else your students should be working on memorizing for the rest of their academic careers.

Help Your Students Become Published Authors

The process is easy. All you need to do is sign up online, and we'll ship your publishing kit straight to your school. A classbook anthology of your students' writing and illustrations will be a meaningful keepsake and time capsule for your classroom, and parents can order copies, too!

You can also check out our blog and online Teacher's Lounge for more writing activities, lesson plans and teaching strategies. Have fun teaching social studies!

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13 Fun Social Studies Activities for 5th-Grade Students!

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Read this blog post if you're having trouble coming up with fun social studies activities for your 5th-grade students!

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Unit lesson guide for 5th grade Social Studies

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Hand signals to avoid classroom interruptions

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Strengthen classroom management and cut down on classroom interruptions with a set of classroom hand signal posters.

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Incorporating English Language Arts into your social studies can be a richer education experience. Here are some ways to blend ELA with social studies.

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Students will choose a topic from the provided lists (e.g., Presidents, Historical places, Important people in the history) that they find interesting.

Students are allowed to express their knowledge either through a presentation or writing an essay.

Each student will be given a chance to share their research with the class.

This is a whole unit.

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There are two large hand sanitizer bottle. One is colored red for girls and blue for boys.

Whenever a student need to go to the bathroom, he/she doesn't have to ask the teacher. The student will raise his/he hand with two fingers as a sign, then if the teacher allow, he/she can grab the bottle and put on his/her table to indicate that the student went to the bathroom.

The students are encouraged to use the hand sanitizer after getting back from bathroom break.

This does not only avoid class disruption, this also teaches students proper hygiene.

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'Classroom Constitution' - Lillian Casey

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At the beginning of the school year, the teacher establishes classroom rules similar to U.S. Constitution.

Students will brainstorm different rules to implement to maintain the peace and structure of the classroom.

The teacher will assist in wording the rules and putting them in a category.

Set a goal for a maximum of 10 rules.

The teacher will create a student friendly contract that they can understand and sign to give a sense of responsibility.

Whenever a student violates a rule, he/she will fill out a form stating the violation, write he/she can do to improve, and sign it.

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FREE templates for classroom organization

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A color coded visual aids that shows emotions for students to pick based on how they feel and talk to students on what he/she or the teacher can do to make the day better.

The teacher then will have to check in with the student if he/she still feel the same in the afternoon.

This is a great way to acknowledge student's feelings and work together to make the day productive and better.

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The teacher shares the objectives with the students and having the students reword and rewrite it in their own words then put as a display in the classroom.

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How To Give Effective Feedback For Student Learning
Effective feedback is a cornerstone of successful learning experiences. Grant Wiggins, a prominent educational theorist perhaps best known for his Understanding By Design work with Jay McTighe, outlined key principles that define impactful feedback before his untimely passing in 2015. In this blog post, we will explore these principles and their significance in fostering continuous improvement and student success.
1. Goal-Referenced Feedback:
Effective feedback, according to Wiggins, begins with a clear goal. Whether telling a joke, writing a story, or participating in a science project, understanding the underlying objective is essential. In educational settings, where goals may not always be explicit, it becomes crucial for instructors to remind students of the specific objectives and criteria for self-assessment. Goal-referenced feedback serves as a roadmap for improvement, guiding students toward mastery.
2. Tangible and Transparent Feedback:
Wiggins emphasizes the importance of feedback being tangible and transparent. Feedback should provide clear, observable results related to the goal. Just as children learn to walk by receiving tangible feedback on their attempts, students benefit from concrete, goal-related information. Transparency in feedback ensures that performers can understand and learn from it. Teachers and coaches play a vital role in offering clear, nonjudgmental observations to enhance the learning experience.
3. Actionable Feedback:
For feedback to be effective, it must be concrete, specific, and actionable. Generic comments like "Good job!" or "You did that wrong" lack the specificity needed for improvement. Actionable feedback provides performers with clear guidance on what to do more or less of in the future. The feedback must also be accepted by the performer, emphasizing the importance of presenting neutral, goal-related facts rather than jumping to conclusions.
4. User-Friendly Feedback:
Even the most specific and accurate feedback is of limited value if it is not user-friendly. Wiggins highlighted the importance of ensuring that performers can understand and apply the feedback provided. Highly technical or overwhelming feedback can hinder rather than facilitate improvement. Feedback should focus on one or two key elements of performance, preventing information overload and helping performers concentrate on crucial aspects.
5. Timely Feedback:
Timeliness is a critical aspect of effective feedback. In most cases, the sooner feedback is delivered, the better. While immediate feedback may not always be feasible, timely feedback ensures that performers can use it while the details are still fresh in their minds. In education, the challenge lies in overcoming untimely feedback, and efforts should be made to provide more opportunities for students to receive and use timely feedback.
6. Ongoing Feedback:
Adjusting performance relies not just on receiving feedback but also on having ongoing opportunities to use it. Wiggins emphasized that formative assessment, which occurs throughout the learning process, allows performers to reshape their performance to better achieve the goal. Real-time feedback, as seen in successful computer games, creates a powerful feedback loop that promotes continuous improvement.
7. Consistent Feedback:
For feedback to be useful, it must be consistent. Performers can only adjust successfully if the information fed back to them is stable, accurate, and trustworthy. In educational settings, this requires teachers to be aligned in their understanding of high-quality work. Collaboration among teachers, supported by descriptive rubrics and anchor products, ensures consistency. Similarly, students should be trained to provide consistent feedback to their peers using exemplars and rubrics.

Grant Wiggins' insights into effective feedback provide a comprehensive framework for educators and learners alike. By incorporating these principles into educational practices, we can create an environment where feedback becomes a catalyst for continuous improvement, fostering a culture of excellence and achievement.

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How To Give Effective Feedback For Student Learning

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These 7 principles of effective feedback are crucial in fostering continuous improvement and student success.

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Calming corner allow students to think, reflect, and have a break to regulate their emotions. This way, they are more than prepared to face the remaining part of the day. I will dedicate a calming area for students who may feel overwhelmed by noise, social-interaction, and for students to go to to help them focus.