Consideration on the Social Studies Lesson to Promote Children’s Thinking

: In the Case of the Lesson Plan “Industry and People’s Living” for 4th Grade in Elementary School

Abstract

This report discusses the importance of thinking in the social studies lesson and suggests an effective step to take in order to promote children’s thinking. The main purpose of the study is 1） to examine learning process and structure of knowledge schematically, and apply them to good usage of materials that we believe promotes children’s thinking with those schema, and 2） to develop a lesson plan incorporating its practical application. The finding was that the instruction based on the lesson plan formed children’s social recognition.