how can we make studies interesting?

One of the best ways to make it interesting is to first find out the learning styles and interests of your students. If you’ve got a bunch of visual students, adding in art projects and visually stimulating decor will do a lot to spark their interest. However, if you’ve got a bunch of auditory students, you will hear moans and groans all around.

Second, do your research. Like the first poster said, it’s way too easy to just rely on the teacher’s manual. The manual should be your guide and spine, but there are so many things you can do to add to it. There are literally thousands of stimulating lesson plans on the internet that you can tweak to fit your classroom, and many of them correlate to state standards.

If you’re studying the rain forest, for example, have your visual students make a rainforest on one wall with butcher and construction paper, paints, markers, colored pencils, whatever. Even high school students can get into this, after school! Play some rainforest sounds and native music to stimulate your auditory learners, and have them find MP3’s of rainforest sounds for the class. For your gotta-be-moving kids, have them do a little research on animals or tribes in that area and put on a presentation for the rest of the class.

Not every kid needs to do every project; have them work in groups that you separate by learning style to do the various things. Each student needs to be present during your teaching on it, and needs to deal with the information, but they get to deal with it in the way that makes the most sense to them. 🙂

My son is now homeschooled, primarily for health reasons, but when he was in school he was surrounded by teachers that taught this way. Four years later, he can still tell me nearly everything that he learned there, who taught it, and which year it was taught. This is also the way that I teach him, since it worked so well, and he and his friends respond the same way to it. Although this type of teaching takes more work, from what I’ve seen, it really helps the kids understand the material!

I actually enjoy learning and studying, because i just like learning new things, but i didnt always used to be like that, i used to hate studying, and learning, i used to just guess on tests and hope for a good grade, and i started getting B’s and im not aloud to get anything lower than an A, i no my parents are strict but its for the good, well i learned when studying and learning i always match up the studying to make it a fun way to learn, and to make it interesting i always find somthing that sounds like it or is like what im learning and that is how i make it interesting, you probably dont know what im saying so here are some examples:

ok, if im learning in sceince: lets say i have to memorize cytoplasm; i memorized it by saying im going to eat a peanut butter and cytoplasm sandwich, because cytoplasm means a jelly like substance,

Example; Or i also make up songs and phrases to memorize things: like to memorize the northern states in order i say: for the first five:

Family = Florida

Games = Georgia

So = South Carolina

Not = North Carolina

Valuable = Virginia

and for the last 9

Malinda = Maryland

Died = Delaware

North = New Jersey

Newyork = New York

Cause = Connecticut

Rollie = Rhode Island

Made = Maryland

No = New Hampshire

Meatballs = Maine

Also to memorize the five great lakes

from left to right

Strong = Superior

Men = Michigan

Hug = Huron

Every = Erie

Ostrage = Ontario

So, really learning things this ways, makes learing and studying fun!

Just take what your learning and connect it to your life, and it will make learning and sudying so much easier, and more fun.

Hope this helps

Far too many teachers just “teach” and they really don’t have an in-depth knowledge of their subject so they can’t reach down and bring up interesting topics when the going get’s dull.

I have never ceased to be amazed by the number of Masters and Doctorate level instructors who have never actually WORKED in the field of interest they are teaching…

one way, is by being very passionate about the subject. I had a teacher once, that was so into what he was talking about, it was like I couldn’t believe it! I thought his teaching style was genius, he was a very laid back teacher, who was very animated when he spoke. He even climbed on desks and impersonated famous people like presidents throughout history. It was really awesome