Use Of Community Resources In Teaching Social Studies. This guide is an inventory of over 100 kinds of readily available community resources for elementary and secondary social studies teachers especially those in rural areas. They would know that the use of community resources in teaching leads to the active participation of learners and this will in intern increase motivation while also minimizing abstraction associated with social studies learning and instruction.
Social studies teachersâ perception on the use of community resources in the teaching learning of social studies in some selected junior secondary schools. Community resources are those persons places and institutions which desirable enrich social studies teaching and learning deepen the social studies content and widen the horizon of learners mezieobi 2008 the community has both human and non human resources. Parents businesses museums zoos nature centers parks etc.
This guide is an inventory of over 100 kinds of readily available community resources for elementary and secondary social studies teachers especially those in rural areas.
Home university of southern california dissertations and theses the use of community resources in. Despite the wide variety of instructional materials which are utilized in teaching learning activities in general community resources are most appropriate for effective social studies instruction in nigeria given the social relevance of social studies coupled with low level of technology development of the nigeria society the growing emphasis on community based education and the dwindling economic circumstance which has occasioned the inadequate supply of instructional materials and. The first describes resources relevant to social studies organized by. It is well known among educators that the educational experiences involving the learner actively participating in concrete examples are retained longer than abstract experiences.
