Hands on social studies activities

Guide to using Social Studies Simulations to step away from the lecture podium and engage your students with hands-on history activities.

As a kid in school I loved when my teachers celebrated creativity in the classroom. In fact, when I reflect on my own education, the moments I remember the most were the creative ones. I vividly remember making salt maps of the state, book report mobiles, models, papier-mâché globes, interactive brochures, puppets, and dioramas. What about you? Are the instructional moments that you remember the most tied to creative activities? There's just something so powerful about hands-on learning with…

Using Gummy Bears to Reinforce Different Types of Governments

So I gave myself a goal this year. I want to add as many hands on, experiential activities into my class as possible. So far, they have been an amazing success! I blogged about this activity last month. This week my kiddos got to experience what it felt like to be a hominid. They looooooved it and beg for more labs!!! Homo Erectus building their tower. Neanderthal and Cro Magnon Homo Habilis very proud of their horrible tower and their lack of fine motor skills. Click here and check it out…

Stop the presses! Is this the cutest thing or what? We're not studying the pioneering days this year in our homeschool, but I sure am tempted to find a way to wriggle one of these journals in!

Hands-on activities for studying world history are the best way for your kids to get a deeper understanding of the country all around us.

Finding hands-on learning activities for older children can be very difficult. Here is a list of some of our favorites, inlcuding history and language arts.

Engage your middle school students with these fun social studies activities and help bring history and govenemnt to life.

An overview of the engaging resources for Geography, Civics, World, or US History that are all included with a subscription to Students of History.

Try something new in Geography and World Cultures class. Have students create a one-pager assessment to highlight key features for each of the five themes of Social Studies (Geography, History, Economics, Government, Culture).