Activities For Parents To Do With Their Young Person:
1. Read Like A Historian ...or Listen Like A Historian - This activity helps enhance social studies skills and living skills. In class we study and analyze primary source documents from history to get an understanding of the times and the people. This same study can be done at home using today's events to better help students understand today's world. Ask your child analytical questions after viewing a movie, newscast, other media source, community events, schools events, and more. (a) Ask what point of view was the writer or speaker taking? (b) Why was the statement written or said? (c) Is the writer or speaker creatable about the topic? (d) Does the writer or speaker show bias? If so, why might this be? (e) What is going on at the time that caused the statement to be written or said? (f) How does what the writer or speaker's words make you feel and why?
2. Alphabetic Review of Current Unit Material - Start through the alphabet and ask your young person to share something they learned that starts with each letter. For example, if studying Greece, "A" could stand for Athens which was the leading city-state in ancient Greece. "B" could stand for the Balkan Peninsula which makes up most of mainland Greece... and so on. Allow your young person to look back at the textbook, notes, and worksheets to help with this.
3. News Reflection Connection - Listen to or read the current news. Ask you young person to connect it to something that they have learned about in previous history. Ask them how the events are alike and different?
4. Go Go Geo - If you are taking a trip by car or some other method of transportation, have your young person analyze the locals they see to assist with geographical analytical skills. Ask questions such as (a) How is the land being used? (b) What might the location have to offer those who live there? (c) What has been done to improve the location? (d) What impacts do the improvements have on the environment and species living there? (e) What issues might arise living in that location? (f) Are there any cons to living in the location? (g) Can they find the local on a map?
1. Read Like A Historian ...or Listen Like A Historian - This activity helps enhance social studies skills and living skills. In class we study and analyze primary source documents from history to get an understanding of the times and the people. This same study can be done at home using today's events to better help students understand today's world. Ask your child analytical questions after viewing a movie, newscast, other media source, community events, schools events, and more. (a) Ask what point of view was the writer or speaker taking? (b) Why was the statement written or said? (c) Is the writer or speaker creatable about the topic? (d) Does the writer or speaker show bias? If so, why might this be? (e) What is going on at the time that caused the statement to be written or said? (f) How does what the writer or speaker's words make you feel and why?
2. Alphabetic Review of Current Unit Material - Start through the alphabet and ask your young person to share something they learned that starts with each letter. For example, if studying Greece, "A" could stand for Athens which was the leading city-state in ancient Greece. "B" could stand for the Balkan Peninsula which makes up most of mainland Greece... and so on. Allow your young person to look back at the textbook, notes, and worksheets to help with this.
3. News Reflection Connection - Listen to or read the current news. Ask you young person to connect it to something that they have learned about in previous history. Ask them how the events are alike and different?
4. Go Go Geo - If you are taking a trip by car or some other method of transportation, have your young person analyze the locals they see to assist with geographical analytical skills. Ask questions such as (a) How is the land being used? (b) What might the location have to offer those who live there? (c) What has been done to improve the location? (d) What impacts do the improvements have on the environment and species living there? (e) What issues might arise living in that location? (f) Are there any cons to living in the location? (g) Can they find the local on a map?