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Write! Social Studies
Re-inventing the Government
In order to vote, we must register well in advance, take time out of our schedule to go to an authorized location, stand in line, provide proper identification, wait for our name to be located, and then we can actually vote. Why can’t we just... In this activity, students re-invent the government, or at least a part of the government.
Write! Social Studies
MI & Cooperative Learning Activities
Writing is thinking! Get your students writing and thinking about social studies with this collection of ready-to-use writing activities. Students delve deep into social studies issues as they work cooperatively with teammates on activities like writing the correspondence of two historical characters, publishing and sharing political cartoons, discussing and writing about famous historical quotations. Activities incorporate the multiple intelligences. Writing activities are perfect to start the class, introduce a new concept, end the unit, or use as a sponge activity. Book includes 36 cooperative writing activities with ready-to-use reproducible activity pages, and a brief description of dozens of cooperative learning techniques. 140 pages.