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Kind Students: We will have a great time at the Galloway House. This session is meant to help you understand how to get children involved in projects where they are actively using their Social Studies Learning. Try to keep in mind that what we are referring to relative to Active LEarning, is another name for "experiential learning or hands on learning or my favorite- get your hands dirty learning".

Power Point from the book. Active Learning. Can you make connections between this and the Inquiry Learning Model?



Please look at this power point closely! It is far better than the marterial presented in our text book. It is a how to around Active Learning in Social Studies.

An article presenting the pros and cons of this approach to Social Studies.

More Cooperative Learning strategies