Methods Quick Reference
Guide
A
Advertisements
Alphabet Job Search
Archaeological digs
Architecture and landscape designs
Art of Era
Artifacts
Assembly line
Audio Text Books
Audio Tape Documentation
Autobiographical Time-line
Amendment Act Out
B
Balance Check Book
Bedroom map
Bicycle Safety Program
Big Books
Birthday Club w/ Senior Center
Book reports
Broadcast
Bulletin boards
Buzz groups
C
Case studies
Cartoons
Cemetery studies
Centers
Chalkboard
Charts and graphs
Circle meeting
Class Debates on Citizenship
Class Meetings
Class Store
Clean-up campaign
Collages
Collecting
Committees
Community Service Projects
Community Survey
Community building
Community maps
Concept Mapping
Cooking
Copy Right Research
Costumes
Crossword puzzles
Current events
D
Dances
Debates
Diaries
Dioramas
Discussions
Displays
Dramatics
E
Edible maps
Exhibits
F
Field Trips
Films
Filmstrips
Flags
Flannel boards
Flash cards
Flip Books
Flowcharts
Folk art
Folk music
G
Games
Game shows
Genealogies
Globe Trotting
Globes
Graphic organizers
Guest speakers
H
Hall of fame
Historical characters
Historical reenactments
Home living centers
I
Interactive bulletin boards
Interviews
Internet Research
Invent a Product
J
Jigsaw puzzle
Journal
K
KWL
L
Landscape Lingo
Letters
Life Models
Literature
Listening activities
Loan Application
M
Magazines
Map Making (2-D, 3-D, GIS)
Masks
Media literacy
Milk carton city
Migration Patterns (People, Animals)
Mind Map
Mini-Book
Mini-societies
Models
Model factories
Mobiles
Mock Election
Mock panels
Mock trials
Mock-ups
Montages
Mortgage Application
Murals
Music
N
Narratives
Neighborhood map
Newspapers
Newspaper Ad Picnic
Newspaper making
Notebooks
O
Open text study
Oral histories
Origins of Special Days
Outline
P
Panels
Paper Mache’ Globe
Passports
Patent Research
Pen pals
People as resources
Photographs (taken by pupils)
Photo Journals
Pictures
Pioneer Treks
Plant a tree
Plays
Poetry
Points of View
Pop-up Books
Portfolio
Posters
Previous Knowledge Map/Chart
Price Comparison
Problem solving
Propaganda
Public records
Puppets
Q
Question of the Week
Questions
R
Radio programs
Readings
Readers Theater
Records (World, Sports, Etc.)
Recordings
Reporting
Reproductions
Riddles
Role-play
S
Salt dough maps
Sand tables
Scavenger Hunt
Safety Studies (Schools, Home, Community)
School affiliations
School Citizen Program
School Newspaper
Scrapbooks
Service projects
Sewing
Skits
Slides
Soap Models
Social Norms
Sociometric groupings
Songs
Source materials
Speech
Stamps, coins and hobbies
Statistics (Sports, Countries, Etc.)
Story boards
Story telling
Student designed project
Surveys
Symbolic Art
T
Talks
Tape recordings
Television telecasts
Terrain Walk
Tests
Textbooks
Theme Approach
Time-lines
Topography
Transparencies
Trash trails
Travel ambassador
Trips
TV Box Newscast
U
V
Video clips
Videos
Video productions
W
Webbing
Word associations
Workbooks
Writing for materials
Written work
X
X-rays
Y
Z