Why Social Studies?

Teaching Social Studies isn't easy, and it isn't hard. As a social studies educator, you have to have your resources, be enthused when teaching a lesson, make the lesson fun, relate the lesson to real world problems. When teaching any subject, integrating other subjects in your lesson is ok, its a good thing. Social studies teachers teach concepts of government, economics, geography, history, civic ideals, and current events. Social studies teaches you to address societal and global concerns using technology, literature, and other identifiable community resources.

Social studies is important because it helps us to gain knowledge of the society we live in. Learning things in social studies help us, make informed and reasoned decisions for the good of our community, society, the world.

Studying the past in social studies allows us to understand where we have come from and why we are here. History shows us models of good and responsible citizenship. History also teaches us how to learn from others mistakes. Studying history helps improve our decision making and judgment. History helps us understand change and societal development. Learning the past we learn about the failures, enemies, victories, and defeats. The past allows the people of today and the future to learn without having to endure.