structuring a social studies class By Carolyn - also 5th

After the warm-up, you can go to the book. I try to give mine the opportunity to do projects, too. We have done group newspapers. Each member of the group contributes an article to the newspaper. The group publishes it. The kids have also made up skits to present to the class. Middle school students are quite inventive, and since they are older they are capable of doing so much more than the younger kids.