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Interdisciplinary/Multidisciplinary approaches to the teaching of Social Studies
Task
In groups of five your task is to use an overarching theme to link five disciplines of Social Studies: Economics, Religion, Sociology, Political Science, and Communication. An example is provided for you below. Also, a YouTube video integrating Mathematics and Social Studies (Geography) that you can use as a guide to integrating the five disciplines and Social Studies. For each subject area you are to provide a lesson (s) using the theme to show the connections and relevance between the subject areas. In the next class you will be asked to produce a presentation focused on the effective uses of the interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary approaches to the teaching of Social Studies. You should:
- create a PhotoStory or PowerPoint presentation
- use a multimedia projector
- create a chart (s)
- create an original poem, dance, skit etc
- provide one multiple choice and short answer question for each subject area
- provide a hard copy with references in the APA format
Sports can be used to teach history even though British rule is long gone from Jamaica, but reminders of it linger on. Cricket is one such memento from the days of colonialism. Once the most popular sport in Jamaica, it lingers throughout the Caribbean as the people�s sport.
Fourteen years ago the first Jamaican Bobsleigh team made history in the Calgary Olympics Winter Games. They warmed the hearts of many worldwide in their first attempt at Olympic glory and were even immortalized in the popular Walt Disney movie "Cool Runnings". Since then the team has been a mainstay in the Winter Olympics and now have their eyes focused on bringing back a medal to Jamaica.
In 1998 Jamaica made history when they qualified for the World Cup Soccer in France. The national football team was the first English speaking Caribbean nation to qualify for the World Cup soccer finals. It was such a historical event that the then Prime Minister The Honourable Percival James Patterson declared a public holiday for November 17. Even crime declined during this momentous occasion when the nation was united.
Sports can also be used to teach about national heroes who competed in Champs, for example, 17-year-old Norman Washington Manley whose tracks from Jamaica College (J.C.) would eventually lead to the halls of Oxford University and to the field of legal luminaries, before becoming one of Jamaica's most eminent statesmen and a National Hero and the first PNP president, Norman Manley, who was not only one of the first from Champs to contest the first elections in 1944, but also the first captain of a school track team (in 1911) and his total domination of the first three Champs (1910-1912) is legendary and remains unsurpassed.
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YouTube video integrating Mathematics and Social Studies (Geography)
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