Exam 2: How Do Students Engage in Powerful and Meaningful Social Studies

Which of the following is NOT a student behavior appropriate to do in the lesson development phase?

The best exploratory introductions ask students to begin the lesson by making a list or diagram of their present knowledge of the topic for study.

When teachers base their instructional decisions on knowledge of how students learn, they increase their ability to develop social studies lessons through which students will successfully learn.

Traditional teaching focuses on:

Meaningful learning in social studies is an active process. Students are involved in:

Which of the following is NOT a student behavior consistent with instructional strategies use in the exploratory introduction?

Which of the following is a teacher behavior consistent with teaching an exploratory introduction for a lesson or unit?

Because students like to use computer programs that include sounds, music, and animation, teachers should use computers when teaching social studies so students will be interested in the lesson.

The last part of the learning cycle social studies lesson is the expansion. In this phase of the lesson, students:

The expansion phase provides additional time and experiences that may modify what was learned in the development phase of the lesson and bring about conceptual change.

In the exploratory introduction phase of the learning cycle, teachers:

Which of the following behaviors is NOT consistent with the teacher's behaviors during the lesson development phase?

As the social studies learning cycle begins, students should be engaged in:

When teaching meaningful social studies teachers should not replace all memorization of facts, but severely reduce it.

Failure to include related expansion activities in a lesson or unit may result in the students forgetting what has been learned in the previous phases of the learning cycle.

A teacher creates an activity that presents students with a confusing situation. Students realize they are only partially familiar with the situation. This is an ideal type of activity for which phase of the learning cycle?

The expansion phase of the lesson includes a review or demonstration of learning from the lesson development phase.

Which of the following is NOT a major purpose of the exploratory introduction?

The activities of the expansion may also serve as assessments of student learning.

The middle part of the learning cycle is teacher guided as students: