COURSE OUTLINE IN TEACHING SOCIAL STUDIES IN THE ELEMENTARY
GRADES (CULTURE AND BASIC GEOGRAPHY)
COURSE TITLE
:
Teaching Social Studies in the Elementary
Grades
COURSE CODE
:
TSSEGCULGEO
NUMBER OF UNITS
:
3 UNITS
CONTACT HOURS
:
3 HOURS
PREREQUISITE
:
NONE
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
:
Quizzes, reflection paper, research output
Written reports, oral presentation and major
exams
COURSE DESCRIPTION
:
The course aims to equip the students in the BEED program a strong background in
local history and culture. This background serves as an avenue for further inquiry of the
available resources in the community for the localization and contextualization of
teaching of elementary subjects. Areas to be studied include natural heritage of the
locality, tangible and intangible culture that are of great significance to the socioeconomic and political activities of the people in the place. In the end they are expected
to come up with the profiling of available cultural resources in the community.
COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES:
1. Evaluate the importance of social studies and its purpose in primary educational
environments.
2. Describe what powerful social studies looks like and identify important elements
of such instruction
3. Explain the role of inquiry, concepts, Big Ideas and Essential Questions in social
studies curriculum units.
4. Implement effective instructional strategies for teaching concepts, skills, and
attitudes in the elementary classroom.
5. Develop lessons, individualize materials, identify appropriate assessment
strategies, and plan unit of study using the formats provided.
6. Evaluate major resources for social studies education and describe trends in the
field relevant to teaching in our changing information age society.
7. Describe the importance of local history in teaching social studies
8. Create a profile of the different cultural resources in the local community.
COURSE CONTENT
PRELIM and MIDTERM
1. Orientation &
Course overview
2. The goal of Social Studies
3. A problem approach to social
studies
4. K-12 curriculum of the Department
of Education
5. Incorporating themes from the
standards
6. Constructivism and Social studies
7. What values do you teach?
 Developing values
 Character education and
citizenship
FINALS
 Character and values
 Decision making skills
 Logical thinking and analyzing
skills
8. Distinguish facts from Speculations,
Conclusion from opinion, fantasy
from reality truth from falsehood
 Incorporating thinking and
learning skills in social studies
9. Teachers pedagogical knowledge:
understanding the process of
historical inquiry
10. Understanding primary geography
11. Exploring geography teaching and
curriculum
GRADING SYSTEM (Campus ++):
Class Standing: 70%
Major Exams: 30%
Passing Percentage for Professional and major subjects: 60%
REFERENCES:
Brophy, J. (2018). Powerful social studies : for elementary students. Australia:
Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.
Catling, S. (2018). Understanding and teaching primary geography (2nd ed.). New York.
Routledge.
Catling, S. and Willy, T. (2018). Understanding and teaching primary geography(2nd
ed.). Washington D.C.: Sage Publishing.
Copper, H. (2018) .History 5-11: A guide for teachers(3rd ed.). London: Routledge
Russell, W.B. (2018). Essentials of elementary social studies (5th ed.). London:
Routledge.
K-12 Deped Araling panlipunan curriculum guide (2016).retrieved https://deped.gov.ph