Hi everyone! I want to share some links and webpages I found interesting to use in our Social Science classes: You can find videos about history, the Earth and the Universe Her videos approach Social Science in a meaningful and interesting way to our students.   https://www.education.com/resources/social-studies/ A webpage in which you can find resources according to the age of the students and the content you are teaching in class. Claudia de la Fuente

  Hi everyone! I propose the following project "Travel to the past" where we´ll see videos about time:   Children will learnt about: Different  methods for measuring time; prehistory and medieval vocabulary;   olden and modern methods...   with the following links: Henar Merayo

  Hi guys, In this activity the pupils will have to create a timeline with the Kings of Spain during Modern Age so they can  clear up any kind of confusion with the dinasties and identify clearly which century each king belongs to. After, they  will research at home some pictures of the kings and they’ll paste it next to the timeline. Finally,  it would be awesome if they can add some important event to each date, if any. It might be useful the following links: https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/the-modern-age-in-spain-00b0d674-b05c-4006-9367-abff0bb70b8b I hope this information is of interest to you. Have a good day! Cristina Gallardo

  “ Bread was the basis of the medieval diet” and we  will  make bread as mediaevals. Firstly, we will watch the video  in order to understand how they made it. We will read a  replica Middle Ages peasant horsebread recipe made with heritage wheat and legumes. Inspired by Ken Follett’s book Pillars of the Earth. ​ Ingredients ​100 grams dried yellow split peas ​ 200 grams lively sourdough starter ​ 450 grams  Dove’s Farm Heritage Wholegrain flour ​50 grams pea flour ​ 10grams dried seaweed (or salt) ​ 350 ml water ​ Instructions  Wash dried yellow split peas and place them in a medium sized bowl. Cover with water and leave overnight to soak. Take sourdough starter out of the fridge and leave overnight to get to room temperature. The next morning, mix together the starter, flours, seaweed (or salt) and water until a thick wet dough forms. Leave, covered, in the bowl for 3 hours or more. Meanwhile, drain and dry split peas. Coarsely chop them and set asi...

FOSSILS PROJECT SUBJECT: Social sciences and natural sciences COURSE: Level 4 of Primary Education We have been working for 2 weeks with fossils project with students from the fourth level of Primary Education. Our pupils had to make a mass with flour, salt and hot water. They were mixing the materials until they got a uniform mass. Once it was warm, they were drawing some shapes, steps, pictures using different kinds of materials such as plastic forks, stones, leaves, shells, toys which they had at home…Once they were decorated or drawn, they put the mass in the oven at 100 degrees. When the mass was cold they could understand how a step or a rest of an animal could be kept for long time. Here we can see an example of a fossil stone that students made in the project. After creating them, they had to write on their social sciences notebook the process they were following to and some conclusions they got about the way some animals, plants, objects, mater...

Activity title: Spanish historical figures in the XIX Century Webquest Objectives: -       To surf on the links provided to complete a Wikipedia page about the main figures of the XIX. -       To create a Wikipedia page with the main information of these characters. Then they will give an oral presentation about these historical figures. -       To revise the main historical facts of the XIX period in Spain Resources: Webpage:  https://sites.google.com/view/spanishhistoryinxix/p%C3%A1gina-principal Wikipedia Presentation https://drive.google.com/file/d/144cBqgbqJSE-xsdJKULmv7MCZ9ivkwGi/view M.Carmen Martín

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Level: A2-B1 Aim: To be able to trade in using the vocabulary and Present and Past Tenses Skills: Speaking, Listening, the revision of Present Simple, Present Continuos, Past Simple. Cultural contents: To learn about the way the trade took place in ancient Greece, enact it. Number of people involved: 5-7 people Duration: 10-15 minutes (20 with the quiz included) Materials: cut and previously prepared Ancient Greek paper coins Contents: The presenter gives some general historical, geographic information about Ancient Greeks’ manner of trading in, introducing the main characters, who are going to be the sales assistants working in different stalls and the buyers. The actors need to enact the real scenes of the trade, display their capacity for negotiation and coming to some agreement. Later on this activity could be modified into a further quiz with the students that have been only spectators, checking out what facts they remember about Ancient Greece trad...

WHO HAS BETTER ROADS? The idea of ​​ this project is to compare the current ways of communication and transport with those used by the ancient Romans. Students receive (or they can search on the Internet) maps of the current roads in Spain and of the ancient Roman roads. They must compare both maps and think about the differences and similarities they find. We can provide them with some questions to help them in the process: Which cities do the roads connect? Which roads are better distributed? Which current roads coincide with the ancient Roman paths? Which cities do you think were important during the Roman times? Why? With the result of their investigation they can elaborate a presentation using PowerPoint, for example, or they can perform an oral presentation as well. Javier García

Share a History project or activity which brings History into the classroom. If you want to use any other images teaching a geographical or historical process feel free to use it. Project: Roman cities Level: 3 rd course of Primary Education This project is closely related to Unit 7 in which we have learnt about modern cities and how they are distributed (modern district, historical centre and suburbs) and so, we can compare the differences between the buildings and streets in roman times and nowadays (size, shape, materials…). First of all, we are going to watch next video in which it is said how the roman empire was founded and there is a brief explanation about roman cities. After watching the video, I will divide the class in groups of four or five. Along two weeks, we are going to elaborate different roman cities with recycled materials such as, tetrapacks, empty bottles, containers, tins, cardboards, papers… To do that, I have prepared a Powerpoint for the ...

In my opinion, a fantastic way of introducing History in the class in the Social Science Area is by bringing their own personal history to the class. It is a way of raising awareness in the students about what the concept of time and history really implies. We usually do it in two different ways and through two different activities. In the first activity the kids will have to design, complete and decorate their own personal time line. They have to think about their own past, and about the most important events that have happened throughout this (short) period of time. Then they will post these ideas on a poster and explain them marking the events on the timeline. The second activity is the creation of a poster or display about an old loved person in their family, which is usually a grandfather or grandmother. This way they can contrast the differences between two periods of time, about the characteristics that each period have and the differences in education, culture, f...

Hello guys! How are you doing? Check out this terrific website for children and parents that eases the children’s understanding of the material of Social Science explained in an easy, entertaining way! This website is fully equipped with references to different Youtube channels, games classified due to the topic and grade of the child and even some links helping the children to put the theory to practice by doing experiments with parents at home. Here it is:  https://www.weareteachers.com/social-studies-websites/#lessons . Don’t miss it out! Esperanza Gómez

Hello, everyone! Thanyou very much for your resources. All are very interesting! Here you have another webpage you can use: https://mrnussbaum.com/games/social-studies-games Javier García

Hi! I would like to share with you an easy project about The Solar System which could be developed sharing contents between Social Sciences and Arts. I consider it as relevant and motivating, your students will want to do it. Appart from that, you can add stickers on the blackboard to write what pupils know about the solar system, what they want to know and what they have learnt once the project is finished. This creation will help your students to get the contents that are stablished in the curriculum for Social Sciences.  Bye!  Alberto Irigoyen

Hi! I would like to share three resources I created with Educaplay for  4th Primary Students: And a video quiz about spiders: Carmen Martín

Hi, everybody, I hope you are all doing well. I would like to share a website that I use a lot with my Primary Students in our Social Science lessons. This is the link:  https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z849q6f/articles/z7dkhbk Hope you find it useful, we love it! :) M.Lourdes Santamaría

Strategies for Special interventions - Activating prior language. https://strategiesforspecialinterventions.weebly.com/activating-prior-knowledge1.html Information shared in forum by Cruz M. Hernández .

This is a useful poster which gives practical examples of questions that can be used at any stage of the assessment process. It connects Bloom's Taxonomy and Thinking Skills. Do you find it helpful for your classes? https://nancy-rubin.com/2012/08/18/critical-thinking-skills/

The best way to develop cognition skills with the students is creating mindmaps. Here you have a digital tool to create your own mindmaps, it's easy to use and very useful. For more information here you have some tutorials  https://www.mindmup.com/tutorials/index.html Hope you like it. Laura Riesco Here there is also this App.  POPPLET   to create your own mindmaps. Try it !!! You won't be disappointed and children will love it. Virginia Olivar