Social studies is often seen as difficult and boring, requiring students to learn many dates and facts across three subjects. However, social studies is actually important as it builds general awareness by connecting history, civics, and geography. It also opens options for fields in the humanities. Parents can help their children learn social studies by finding the best learning method for each child, such as storytelling for history, relating civics to everyday life, and using pictures for geography. Parents should also reduce distractions and test their child's understanding.

2. MYTHS ABOUT THE
SUBJECT
• Very lengthy
• You have to learn three subjects
• Boring
• Difficult
• So many things to remember like dates.
• Is not useful after 10th

3. WHY SS IS IMPORTANT?
• Builds general awareness
• All three subjects in SS are interconnected
• Opens options for various fields in Humanities at later stage.
• All the top notch people in the world
have degrees in subjects that
are considered to be branches
of SS.

4. HOW TO HELP YOUR CHILD
TO LEARN SS?
• Decide which method is best suited
for your child to learn this subject?
• Reserve the best time of his/her day
for the subject.
• Make sure there are no distractions.
• History- Story telling works best to learn
the subject, Civics- connect it to day-
to-day life situations, Geography- Use
pictures, models etc.

5. • Use jigsaw puzzles, riddles
• Create a small test paper
• Break long sentences in short
ones
• Make them learn in points.
• Let the child use their own
language while writing answers.
• Make sure that the child
uses key words in the
answers so that the
meaning of the sentence
does not change.