As a social studies teacher, how will you make your teaching interesting and effective?

Social studies is concerned with the human study in relation to the socio-cultural environment. It has evolved from social sciences as an instructional area in order to be taught at the school level for promoting healthy social/ democratic living among learners. 

• A social studies teacher should provide hands-on experiences to students to make learning more realistic. He can do this with the effective use of audio-visual aids.

​Key Points Audio-visual aids:

• The use of audio-visual aids in the teaching process makes the teaching-learning process more stimulating, reinforcing, and effective.
• The audio-visual aids provide the learner with a concrete experience in learning which makes learning comparatively permanent.
• They provide sensory experiences to students which form the foundation for intellectual activity.
• Audiovisual aids make your teaching interesting and effective as it:
  • presents the lesson effectively for heightening the learner's intellectual abilities.
  • activates the sense of both hearing and vision to enrich the learner's knowledge.
  • introduces such complex concepts that can't be introduced by other teaching aids. 
  • includes an LCD Projector, TV, computer, video, film projector, virtual classroom, etc. in it.​​​​

​Hence, it could be concluded that a Social Studies teacher can make his teaching effective and interesting with the use of audio-visual teaching aids.