Skills in the Social Studies Curriculum
In order to make decisions or find solutions to problems, students need information skills.
These skills need to be taught to the student just as any other content curriculum. Students need to develop competence at a basic level before proceeding to a more complex level. Information skills can be grouped into four categories:
1. Skills for identifying and locating information sources and gaining access.
2. Skills for information intake, receiving information.
3. Skills for organizing information- reflecting, analyzing, synthesizing, drawing conclusions and making comparisons.
4. Skills for communicating information- oral, written, pictorial, dramatized.
In order to make decisions or find solutions to problems, students need information skills.
These skills need to be taught to the student just as any other content curriculum. Students need to develop competence at a basic level before proceeding to a more complex level. Information skills can be grouped into four categories:
1. Skills for identifying and locating information sources and gaining access.
2. Skills for information intake, receiving information.
3. Skills for organizing information- reflecting, analyzing, synthesizing, drawing conclusions and making comparisons.
4. Skills for communicating information- oral, written, pictorial, dramatized.
