How to make "learning history" easy?

Answer 1

It is easier if you can use your imagination. Just imagine what you would be like and what you would be doing at any particular time in history.

Answer 2

The best way to make learning history, or any subject for that matter, easy is to relate to the material. You first need to find out what type of learner you are.

Try this web site to figure out how you would best learn: http://www.worldwidelearn.com/education-articles/how-do-you-learn.htm

Visual learners are at their best when they are seeing the information either in a textbook or from an audio-visual source, like a TV or radio.

Auditory learners are at their best when they are hearing someone explain the material either by a teacher or from an audio-visual source.

Experience learners are at their best when they are actually getting their hands-on the material and are part of the experience first hand, like going on a field trip at a meuseum.

Once you find out how you learn best, you then have to figure out how to make the material your own. This means choosing something that you enjoy and that you can emotionally connect with so that you can link it to the material being studied. For example, take a baseball fan studying the Civil War. In this case, President Abraham Lincoln can be compared to the commissioner of baseball and the fighting between the North and the South can mirror the disagreements between the players and the owners during the baseball strike.

The goal is then to build off of this initial connection in making as many ties between the war and the baseball strike. By doing this, you have something that is easily recalled in your memory when studying and reviewing the subject.

Answer 3

Some children are auditory learners, some visual, and some require a hands on approach. I think one of the best ways to remember dates and people are songs. You can also use role play and demonstrations (letting them experience what a certain event was like...segregation, stock market...etc). Creative teaching methods almost always lead to a better handle on the subject.

Answer 4

Learn some fun songs! Like school house rock!

Answer 5

Know your subject exceedingly well.

If you do then you can easily get off the main subject with ease and take interesting side trips that reveal quite interesting facts about the period or person of importance; then, pop back to the main discussion once again.

Students tune in to trivia and this helps them to associate facts with what you are really trying to teach.

Anyway, it worked for me.

Answer 6

It alot depends on age group, My thought is to turn history lessons into narratives. A good story is very memorable, whil a bunch of facts boooring.

Answer 7

I think it's easier to learn when a teacher is really enthusuastic about their subject.

Answer 8

Pretend your there. Pick someone and pretend your there. I agrre with rivkadacat. I'm an enigineer but I still have imagination!

Answer 9

i like to make everything a comic strip. its fun. especially wars and timelines. its fun.

i actually like history