Resources

for Learning
By
Aulia Rahma W.
Difa Nur Desianasari
1. Eka Rizqi Oktaviani
 Resources of Learning

The Children

The Family

The School

Community

The Classroom

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 The Children

Children are also resources for social studies learning. Each child brings a unique
set of experiences and skills to share with others. Children can become involved in
many ways:
◍ Share their experiences by telling others about how they do thing in their own
homes.
◍ Bring in objects, photographs or digital photo albums, cultural foods, and stories
to share with classmate.
◍ Demonstrate how to make a bridge of blocks, how to paint, or how to make a replica
of an indian pot.
◍ Teach one another how to complete a puzzle, read a map, or sing a song.

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 The Family

Parental involvement is helpful in social studies, because it bring parents,

teachers, and children together, serve as resources for social studies learning
and teaching. There are two types of parental involvement :
◍ Informal involvement such as : establish an open-door policy, send home a
questionnaire at the beginning of the year, send home individual note that
telling parents about their child’s progress.
◍ Formal involvement such as : groups meetings, working with children, and
decision making.

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 The School

The people in the school also serve as resource for children’s learning. Every
member of the school staff has some special skill or background to share with
the children. Just observing the staff at work puts children in touch with the
real-world learning. Some staff members might demonstrate a specific skill used
in their jobs. Teacher is also a resource for social studies learning.

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 Community

Taking children on excursions into the community.

◍ Fieldwork, many benefits and types of fieldwork such as: walking trip,
small-Group trips, repeated fieldwork, specific-purposes field trips,
virtual field trips, and WOW trips.
◍ Planning Fieldwork
◍ Guest Speakers
◍ Community Service

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 The Classroom

The classroom can through careful planning and arranging become a world for
social studies learning.
◍ Deciding on learning centers
◍ Introducing centers
◍ Types of centers

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 Vicarious Material in the Classroom

o Children’s Literature
The power of children’s literature depends on the responses children bring
to it. Having enjoyed listening to a story read by the teacher or another child
or having read special books themselves, children can follow up on this
pleasurable experience.
o Refrence Materials
Intrigued by anything that appears to be adult like, young children find
something appealing about using newspapers, magazines, and other reference
materials. It makes them feel grown up.
o Visual Discovery
Although most young children have had these experiences, it is important
to begin with real objects and events before asking children to interpret the
symbols of a picture or a photograph.
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◍ Commercial Materials
Commercial kits and materials are available for teaching social studies
concepts.
◍ Audiovisual Resources
Many video s about places, people and thing of interest to children are
readily available. As with other resources, you will need to select them
carefully and use them with a specific purpose and objective in mind.
◍ Video Clips and Digital Images
Video clips and visual images are sometimes more practical than videos are.
Children can learn to use computere to view digital images individually or in
pairs if there are computere set up in the room.

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◍ CDs, Recording and Television
Using audio or videotape recorders,iPods, or MP3 players, reports,
stories, for interviews with school personnel or parents can be recorded. You
might capture the sights and sounds of the children.
◍ Technology
Technology is now part of nearly every child’s world (at home or
elsewhere) and of nearly every chilhood and elementary p Technology is now
part of nearly every child’s world (at home or elsewhere) and of nearly every
chilhood and elementary program.Today children are growing up with a different
reality in terms of how they communicate and learn, a different set of tools,
and different ways of accessing and connecting to their social network.rogram.

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◍ Developing Comfort with Digital Tools
To develop and refine a skill base with a variety of digital tools, they
need to spend time using them in a supportive environment.
◍ Online Resources
Online resources can provide needed information about a myriad of social
studies topics. Some teachers routinely ask children to find information by
accessing http:/www.askkids.com, where children can search any social topics.
◍ Teaching Content
When carefully designed and selected to meet specific goals of the
curriculum, technology based resources and activities can increase achievment
in vocabulary development, mathematics, and prosocial development.

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◍ Selecting Technological Tools and Resources
Technology tools and resources must be carefully and purposefully and
evaluated just any other resources should be. Technology must be used and
evaluated in context of developmentally appropriate curriculum goals as well
as children’s experiences and interests.
◍ Safety
The internet is or will be part of children’s here and now world at
younger and younger ages. Teacher can teach children about internet safety
and echance the safety of internet.

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Thank you!
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