Social Studies Strategies (Realia Strategies)

Social Studies Strategies 

10. Realia Strategies 
Realia is a term that describes real things that are used to draw background knowledge for vocabulary. 

• The teacher will begin with identifying opportunities to use realia in the classroom.
• Then the teacher will collect realia, either from the students or alone. 
• The teacher will then begin to build a library of realia in the classroom.
• The teacher could use field trips as realia.
• The teacher could use the students finding realia as a assessment. 

Ways the teacher could implement this in the classroom:

1. Taking students to a museum
2. Having the students bring things from home that represent the social studies topic at the time
3. Have students journal about objects that could benefit the idea of realia in the classroom based on that topic. 

What Realia may look like in the Classroom: