Write about 100 words giving reasons why you either agree OR disagree with this.
S. Arveen Singh 4 Joy
I agree to a large extent that social studies is not a subject for the classroom. However, i still feel that there are some lessons or topics which are best learnt by young people inside the classroom.
Social studies allows us to learn about other people, history, geography and cultures in other countries both in the past and present. Social studies can be very boring if it is always taught in classrooms confined by four walls. It would be much more fun if the teaching and learning of social studies can be done outside the classrooms. Pupils can then explore and learn from their own live experiences through outdoor activities. Learning will be even more rewarding, meaningful and exciting if pupils get the opportunities to travel overseas for social studies learning journeys with their teachers and parents.
I remember travelling to Malacca with my parents during one of the school holidays and i gained a lot of knowledge from the trip. We visited many places of interest and i took down short notes on these places. After the trip, i did my research on the Internet and i learned that there are many cultures and traditions in Malacca which are similar to Singapore's.
I also went to Chinatown with my classmates and teacher. I learnt and was surprised that there are Hindu temples in Chinatown. At the temple, i discovered that a 'fire-walking ceremony' will be held at the compound annually. This got me really excited and i have made up my mind to witness the ceremony next year. I gained more knowledge about different religions when my classmates and i went on to visit a Chinese temple and mosque.
Through social studies, young people like me can gain the knowledge necessary to manage our way of life. By talking to our parents or teachers, reading the newspapers, travelling overseas, engaging in outdoor activites and surfing the Internet, we can enjoy social studies to a greater extent and learn more meaningfully than being confined in a classroom. The idea is to become more positively contributing members of the community and to acquire the ability to become more independent learners in the world we live in.
90 comments:
I agree with the question because I like reading newspapers and surfing the net.
Tan Yi Qing 4C
I ageree that should be compulsory. This way,it may encourage students that did not realise that social studies is interesting know. It also encourages students to know what is outside the classroom and what happened in the past.
I agree that Social Studies is a subject.It is a subject because we can learn about the old culture and it is useful.The more we know the more clever we are.
I agree with this because Social Studies can teach us some things about the past.
I ageree that because i like reading the little red dot, talking to my parents and surfing the internet. it also helps puipls to know what is happening on the news. I sad the news because news from yesterday will come from the next days newspaper.
I agree with the question.Social studies is all about history which quite interesting.Although some people think it is boring,but it helps us gain knowledge.
I agree that social studies should be a subject for their classroom,because social studies is important in our lives.We must also try to apply it in our lives.It talks about all over the world like,history learning about other thing outside the classroom.I like social studies very much because it is interesting and fun,you should also like social studies.It also teachers us the school values(sometimes).Sometimes,I also find social studies boring and tiring.I will try my best to follow accordingly to what the social studies teacher says.And my social studies teacher is Mr.Bunawar. 104 words
I agree because it encourages students to know what how intersting is social studies. It let them know what happened in a very long time ago and what people had done during that time. Eg: ( trading and selling.)
I disagree with this as you hardly see many articles about Social Studies in the news paper.Besides now adays both parents, father and mother, usually work and have no time to talk to their chidren. Most chidren usually do not surf the net to research about work but they secretly play computer games instead.
Having it taught in class, the teacher can bring up interesting topics to discuss together and the pupils can give their point of view or opinions. So I think Social Study is a subject for the classroom.
From Jevy 4F
I think we should not change it, because we must still learn about more about singapore's presant and past in schools as a subject so that we will know more storys,tales and legends of singapore.
I think that we should learn social studies at home and at school because at school we can learn more about Singapore and at home we can learn more about international things. At home we can actually learn more about social studies but sometimes they can be lazy. At school we learn enough because we have to do it.
Anya 4C
i read the news and found something diffrent it is social studies they said children talk to their parents about it. 4 faith
I argee that it should be compulsory because we can learn more about the past and what is happening in this world. We also can surf the internet and young people will also pick up talking to their parents.I argee with it bacause we can spend some time on social studies and not all time on lessons.I hope that everyone will participate.
Tammy tan 4 faith
I agree with it because we can surf the net!
Tammy Tan 4 faith
i agree with the question. i think social studies is a interesting subject but many of the pupils in school are finding social studies boring. i find it interesting because it encourages many pupils to learn more outdoor things that are happening. when reading newspaper, it is telling you what the other countries are having now. social studies encourages pupil to know what the past was like and try to make the future brighter.
lim jia xuan 4f
i agree because i like reading and surfing the net.it also encourages my friend to konw how fun to learn what happened in the past.the education minstry confirmed the review,which followed recommendations by a 2007 report of the committee on national education (ne)to look at its structure and content.the aim of social studies,the spokesman added,is to mould students into well-informed,thinking and concerned citizens.
I Disagree that Social Studies should not be Compulsory as They will have more willpower to learn if they were interested. Learning should not be a must as the pupils will not follow through the lesson and make others get influence, Instead of Learning a useful subject you will have to use up the whole lesson by trying to quiet them down. I understand that Social Studies is a Great Subject and useful, but some people are not the same. Another Thing is that talking to their parents might not help because some children are not close to their parents and some parents are too busy to talk. You also suggested that we read the newspaper and surf the web. Reading the newspaper won't help either as some children don't like to read and some only like to read comics, Surfing the Internet is one idea I like as children love to use the computer.
That are my reasons why I Disagree.
Carissa 4Faith
social studies is not really just to study this was intresting when i read it i think i will agree 4 faith
i also think i will agree because i love reading and finding out intresting things in the newspaper 4 faith
i agree because my mum teach me social studies too, my mum told me about world war 1 and world war 2.i also went website to learn about "When singapore gone indenpent", my auntie teach me about fuel and lots of thing.i think we can learn at home or school,but i think when our parents teach us we will be even more happy,but if we study social studies with just a textbook i think it will not be very interesting to us. Vanessa Tan 4H
I agree.It helps us to become well-informed,thinking and concerned citizens.I can learn social studies from my family members,for example:My mum sometimes tells me about friendship and consideration. It is also good to know the story of
Singapore in the past,especially how we maintain the toleration in a multi-culture people. I think Social Studies is quite important and interesting.Social Studies is fun..! JESSICA 4 HOPE
I agree because I think that the newspapers and the internet has a lot of information,so it might also have things about social studies.I can also talk to my parents because they are the ones who often teach me science,chinese,maths and english,so I can also ask my parents about social studies.XavierToh4f
I agree with the statment that social studies should be tought outside of the classrooms,because in classrooms you will only be tought for half and hour to one hour unlike learning it, outside you can learn it for a longer time period and it is also more fun.There are also more recousres to use when you learn social studies otside there is the newspaper, the internet, Your pearnets, museums and much more, i think the pupose for learnig social studies outside is because pupils can learn faster and there is not much distractions, and that is i agree with social studies being tough outside of the classroom.
Kevin Zammit
4Joy
i disagree because social studies is for young people to know their own world's history. social studies is a REAL subject.it is not something young people will pick up by talking to their parents, reading the newspapers and surfing the web.social studies is easier to learn about politics,conflict,harmony and nationhood by studying another country,but it can also be boring to study things you see everyday.social studies may be fun or boring.but try to enjoy it!maybe you will find it as a subject.what do YOU think?
I agree because social studies,which is taught in secondary schools here, is being reviewed with a view to making it a full,as well as compulsory,subjects for those the upper secondary levels . The education ministry confirmed the review, which followed recommendations by a 2007 report of the commitee on a national education[Ne] to look at its structure and content, Educators expect finalised details to be made public ober the next to to three years:A School principal privy to discussions said:" The new syllabus will be taibir-Made to meet the nation's needs."Raather then studying abit of hisory or geography,more time may be devoted to exploring issues relevant to the country in greater dept." For instance,he addded,students could learn about the economic growth of singapore and why group representation contlity encies were introduced.
Jodie 4Peace
Social studies is about history you must learn history so if people ask you something about history then you know the answer.Social studies is about your history like if you got a great.....grandfather and then you know who he is.If you are very good in history you maybe can be famous and popular.If you work very very hard you will maybe get rewarded.I will agree to read the newspaper and syurf the internet
I disagree because Social Studies is also a subjet.Social Studies not only tells about Singapore but it also tells about customs,discovering places and things around Singapore and others.Social Studies also tells about caring for Singapore,customs about chinese,malay,indian,european or any other.I think its a good subjet because it tells me alot of things like:Raffles contribution,Founding of Singapore and Customs and costumes of our Multi-Racial Society.I like this subjet because I'm intrested in everything in Social Studies.The last thing I want to say is:I love Social Studies.
I disagree,cause Social Studies is a subject that teach us history, talking to their parents,reading the newspaper and surfing the web.Social Studies is also easier to learn about poltics,conflict,harmony and nationhood.
I agree that because it is because we can know about our parents.Reading newspaper and sufing the Web to help people to know about Singapore and Other country.Social Studies are important so that you will know how to know is the thing right or wrong.We would learn different thing like new and knowing about othercountry well.Some other parents do not no what their children are thinking so if they can talk to each other maybe they will know better.
i disagree that social studies is not a sudject for the classroom.social studies,which taught in secondary schools here,is being reviewed with a view to making it full ,as well as compulsory,subject for those in the upper secondary levels.it is understood that social studies,now coupled with subject such as history.
I do not think that social studies
is nice...Actually,I prefer science because the subjet is more fun than social studies...
So,I hope to see something that is my favourite.
changes in store for social studies
i disagree,because social studies is a bit of history or geography.it is easier to learn about politics ,harmony,conflict and nationhood by studying another country,or by learning about singapore.sometimes it is more interesting to learn about your own country.rather than studying a bit of history or geography,more time may be devoted to exploring issues relevant to the country in a greater depth.
I agree.We can learn history by surfing the net and reading newspaper.we can learn history by hear about history by listening story about the pass from our grandparent.
i agree ,decause i want to konw what happens in the past.
I AGREE.
social study is fun because it is intersting.I like scocial study because i wan to kwon about the history of SINGAPORE.This way,it may encourage students that did not realise that social studies is interesting know. It also encourages students to know what is outside the classroom and what happened in the history. I also like reading newspapers and surfing the net.Reading newspaper and sufing the Web to help people to know about Singapore and Other country.Social Studies are important so that you will know how to know is the thing right or wrong.We would learn different thing like new and knowing about othercountry well.Some other parents do not no what their children are thinking so if they can talk to each other maybe they will know better
I Agree because social studies can make me learn about what happen to the past, And how people discorved things
i find it very intresting
Jodie[4peace]
Yes,i agree because i enjoy reading the newspaper and surfing the net.
Social Studies is to learn more about the old times and not the new times.Its good that we learn about what is had happen when we are not born.I like Social Studies very much.
I disagree because Social studies not only tells us details about history of Singapore but also its culture and customs.
Talking to our parents, reading the newspaper and surfing the Internet may tell us only some parts of our local history. Social studies can help us understand our Chinese, Indian, Malay and Eurasian friends better so that we can communicate better. It also encourages pupils to know what the past was like so that we can try to make the future better and brighter.
I think social studies is an interesting subject, although many pupils may find it very boring.
I disagree because Social studies not only tells us details about history of Singapore but also its culture and customs.
Talking to our parents, reading the newspaper and surfing the Internet may tell us only some parts of our local history. Social studies can help us understand our Chinese, Indian, Malay and Eurasian friends better so that we can communicate better. It also encourages pupils to know what the past was like so that we can try to make the future better and brighter.
I think social studies is an interesting subject, although many pupils may find it very boring.
i agree social studies is good for us!!!!!:)
I agree because Social Studies is like History , and there are many places where you can find things about History and Social Studies tell us about legends. For example : What things they are special with or what amazing things they have done. These are some examples. And Social Studies is also a very fun and a very exciting subject. And even primary schools are also taught about Social studies. IT IS A FUN SUBJECT!
I Agree because social studies is about the history like how singapore was found. But without Social studies we dont know about making the earth clean and green. But if there is social studies we will keep the earth clean and we will not litter. We can learn social studies everywhere we can learn it at home or in school. We should have more social studies lessons so we will know really what happend to singapore in the past.
I agree that social studies is not a subject for the classroom and it is something to pick up by talking to people, reading or surfing the web. This is because our parents know about the past and they can share the information with us. It is also good to read the newspapers everyday because it gives us a lot of news about what is going on around the world.When I surf the Web it will tell me more about what I want to know.
I agree and disagree.I disagree because Social Studies is a thing that we will learnt what happened in the past because we were not born back then.Somehow,Social Studies also tells us about Singapore.Some people will look trough the texbook to see what is happening last few years.I agreed because some people will check the internet.They wiil also share with their parents because some parents do not know what is happening in the past.The parents should know about the past cost they can know the similarty and the differents between last time and now.Even if they are not Singaporeans,they should know about Singapore.
i agree because it helps to make it easier to learn
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I agree because our parents let us read newspapers to find abot what is happening around the world and we can use our computers to find interesting things like outer space and about aliens.So I hope that more of use could agree with me!Lim Jin Long,4Joy
I agree with the question,because social studies helps us understand that we need to save the earth.Because alot of us use plastic rappers more times the earth will be destroyed.
i agree because i read news paper and surf the net and also social studies is good for us.
justyn 4 joy
I agree this should not be a class subject
I agree.Because i like to surf the net and read newpapers,and i think that every young pupils will also like to do the same thing as me.Anyway i think that social studies is not a subject for the classroom social studies is about the whole wide world because everything that i see is a social studies subject.
I agree because it helps non-Singaporeans know more about Singapore.Geraldine 4Joy
i agree that social studies should be thought outside because you can ask your parents search the web.
I agree.Social stutdies is about knowing the past.Students must know how Singaporeans suffered in the past.
I agree, social studies is everywhere! In book, the internet, when parents talk, when socializing, and when watching TV too! So social studies is not only a class subject, but it's an "everywhere" subject, a life subject.
I agree(the social studies),becuase i can ask my parent,grandparent or even my greatgrandmother who iis a centenarian(a person who lived for 100 years ).She can tell me about world war 2.She can also tell me how she show support for Singapore she was born 1910.I also agreed with the web serching sentence because i am good at searching the web and the website can tell us more at famous people like Sang Nila Utama,Sir Stamford Raffle or even some survivor of world war 2 like my greatgrandmother.I hope she can tell me more about herself when she was young i was looking forward to meet her and ask her more.
Justin Tan 4F
I agree. I went to Labrador Park and saw the "Dragon Teeth Gate". I also saw a picture of Admiral Zheng He. I would also like to go to Victoria Theatre to see Sir Stamford Raffles' statue!
I agree too because i also surf the web,create a blog and write what happened everyday.I treat it like my diary.
I agree because my parents encourage me to read newspaper,increase my knowledge and i really find it interesting.I have been having stress lately and lucky me!The newspaper has told me how to lower and release my stress.
If you surf the net,you can go to google and search the past of Singapore and how Singapore became independant on 1965.
I think not only we can learn social studies but adults too.My cousin whic h is sec 3 this year is keen to learn more about history.So i told him to surf the net.The next day,he called me and told me how Singapore became independent.It was pretty interesting.
I agree that it should be compulsory so that we can learn more things.
Tammy tan 4 faith
I agree with it because i love to surf the net.
I agree with it because I like to read the LRD and the newspapers.
I disagree with the view that social studies is not a subject for the classroom. Social studies is about knowing the past and the right things to do. It is important for students to know how lucky we are to enjoy the fruits of our grandfathers. Although we can learn from friends, parents, internet, etc, social studies is another additional platform for us to know the past.
I prefer to do social studies at home.So we can use the internet,our fathers can tell us about his past.That way we can learn more information.Our parents can teach us things that we don't know and want to find out.For example we can surf the net to find out more details, with that i can learn more about geography and literature.This is the way to make Social Studies a fun subject at home and in school.
Nadiah Nabilah...4 Hope
I agree with this.I have found lots of informations about social studies by talking or surfing the
internet.
Ga jung lee
p4 Faith.
I disagree beacause the term of Social Studies teach us about Singapore's past and the adventure of Singapore. I think that the class of Social Studies does not concern about anything at school. I prefer saying that Social Studies teach us how to interact with the world, our nation,our country and the safety of our country that it's in our hand from past to future. Aeriel 4 grace
I agree with the subject because not only we can read the newspaper,but also surf the net and young people will also pick up talking to their parents.
Tammy Tan 4 faith
I agree that Social Studies is not a subject in the classroom. Talking to parents and using the computer are also part of learning Social Studies. Reading the newspaper gives general knowledge and let us know what is happening around the world.
Bryan Thiong
From 4 Charity
I think social studies should be teached in school as the teacher and student can bond relationship.
I argree not to have social sdudies in class. It think we should go out and see what is going on in the outside world. We can see how people destroy the world and correct it.
Ong Jun Xun
4 Charity
I agree with the news paper.we should learnsocial studies without using textbooks and workbooks.It is not fun learning with them.
I agree that social studies is a lesson to be taught in the outdoors.
Edel 4C
I think Social Studies is a subject to be taught at home as we can ask our parents about the past.
I prefer to study about social studies out vdoors as it is more interesting and fun.
Because we can know more about the past and present.Such as world war 1&2.Interesting facts and informantion!
So I hope that we can be open to more places and facts.
I find that this way it would be a better and a more fun way.
For me I would prefer to do social studies at home as we can learn social studies from parents or newspapers, like the little red dot.Social studies can be also learnt at heritage centres.Social studies can be sometimes very boring.
Kevin Kok 4 Charity
I think Social Studies at home. We can use the internet and our fathers can tell us more things i the past.We can learn more about Social Studies and find more informations from our parents. We can surf the internet and find more details. We can learn more about geography and literature this way. We can make Soial Studies a fun subject.
Cheong Jung Han(4Charity)
I diagree that social studies is not a subject for the classroom. Social studies enables pupils to uderstand their social world and to develop the knowledge ,skills and attitudes necessary to participate effectively in the society and enviroment in which we live. It also helped us to know something about our historical roots and our physical and social enviroment.Social studies also help us to solve the problem of young Singaporeans lack of knowledge and interset in Singapore's recent history and the central issues key to the survival of our country.
Goh Zhen Hui 4Charity
i agree because when we talk to our parents,read newspapers,surf the internet and read,it makes us get interested instead of just sitting on the chair and writing with no experiance in school.This will never let us realize how everything happened in the past.
I agree that social studies is not a subject for the classroom. I agree because social studies is something for people to learn. It helps people to understand a lot of things, it also helps people to do good things. I think people should continue to learn more social studies. Social studies can help children grow up. If we want to learn more about social studies, we have to read books, ask questions and search on the internet. The best way to learn social studies is to use as many ways as possible. My favorite way to learn social studies is reading books.
social studies should be based on excursion
i agree that social studies should not be a subject with have to be taught in classroom.Reading newspapers and surfing the net will let us know more general knowlege
Kim SeoYoung4C
Social Studies can teach us more about the past.It is intrsting. Pearleen Chua 4 Joy
I think Social Studies is important and fun because it can
gain general knowleadge.
Daryl Kiang
I agree that social studies should not the taught in the classrooms because we can learn it with our parents and those whose parents are working and cannot spend much time with them can also spend more time with them and for the time we should do our social sudies we can do our subject and we can do other subjects and improve our mathematics,english and science!
agree with the question. i think social studies is a interesting subject but many of the pupils in school are finding social studies boring. i find it interesting because it encourages many pupils to learn more outdoor things that are happening. when reading newspaper, it is telling you what the other countries are having now. social studies encourages pupil to know what the past was like and try to make the future brighter.
chi heng 4hope
I agree that Social Studies is not a subject in the classroom. Talking to parents and using the computer are also part of learning Social Studies. Reading the newspaper gives general knowledge and let us know what is happening around the world.
vince yap 4h
I hope singapore will have a place to children where they will always be happiness,hopeful,peaceful,joyful,careing each other and also loving each other .I wish singapore would have a wonderful hollywood where children have fun and they learn many interesting things over there and enjoy themselves.I also wish that singapore will have a very good school like us for children to learn new things and study until the children have know how to defend singapore and have responsibility to take good care of their parents.And i also hope that singapore will give a place for children where where they will not be poor .They will also learn how to earn money from business and buy food and clothes .I also hope that singapore would have a place for children in singapore to share their cultures with other country.
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