RELEVANCE OF STUDYING SOCIAL STUDIES

RELEVANCE OF STUDYING SOCIAL STUDIES

MYTHS ABOUT THE SUBJECT

• Very lengthy• You have to learn three subjects• Boring• Difficult• So many things to remember like dates.• Is not useful after 10th

WHY SS IS IMPORTANT?

• Builds general awareness• All three subjects in SS are interconnected• Opens options for various fields in Humanities at later

stage.• All the top notch people in the world have degrees in subjects that are considered to be branches of SS.

HOW TO HELP YOUR CHILD TO LEARN SS?

• Decide which method is best suited for your child to learn this subject?• Reserve the best time of his/her day for the subject.• Make sure there are no distractions.• History- Story telling works best to learn the subject, Civics- connect it to day- to-day life situations, Geography- Use pictures, models etc.

• Use jigsaw puzzles, riddles• Create a small test paper• Break long sentences in short

ones• Make them learn in points.• Let the child use their own

language while writing answers.

• Make sure that the child uses key words in the answers so that the meaning of the sentence does not change.