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Social Studies Education, "Within the contemporary field of education…

- - - - Students must use context clues to piece together a reading which has been given to them in an intentionally vague manner by filling in blanks
    - - Students summarize what they know before answering questions about the text. Requires students to "read between the lines"
        
        Students must make inferences when given a lack of information
  - - - Get students engaged as they teach themselves vocabulary through a gamified lens
        
        Students utilize prior knowledge of vocabulary in order to comprehend more easily
  - - - These are used by teachers to give students interesting work to do that will help them to digest a reading composition assessment
- - - - Students compete for points against their peers and accelerate their learning
    - - Students become interested in Social Studies
  - - - Students end up willingly becoming experts on a given topic so that their characters may debate or talk to one another
- - - - Student progress is able to be seen and based on the data, the teacher can alter future instruction to best suit the student(s) in a given class
    - - Students each research pieces of information separately before coming together and assessing what has been found: The pieces fit together and create a completed puzzle
- - - - More Ideal: Students develop a love of learning which fuels their own intrinsic drive
    - - Students ask questions which they then answer through research. Can connect students to the real world with real life questions.
        
        Social Studies becomes more relevant to students as they form real-world connections
  - - - Less ideal: It isn't about the learning, it's about the reward