ABSTRACT
This chapter serves as a demonstration of how you can teach social studies, language arts, mathematics, and science primarily through constructivist instruction. Today, many preservice teachers are facing a dilemma-they want to teach constructively but wonder how they can do so when accountability is the name of the game. School districts often embrace behavioral instruction because it endorses the use of prescribed lessons and activities that teachers must implement implicitly. In this chapter you will find some sample lesson plans that show how you can teach students using both constructivism and behaviorism. More importantly, these lessons are based on actual goals and objectives adopted by various state agencies across the country. It is important that you know and understand that you can teach your state’s mandated curricular goals and objectives and your school district’s scope and sequence and still create constructivist lessons that are fun and enjoyable to students. However, please note that these sample lesson plans were not designed for any specific textbooks. They are generic lesson plans that can be adapted to address the content found in your own textbooks. For example, the page numbers that are given for the reading assignments listed in some of the sample lesson plans are fictitious and should be substituted with the actual page numbers of your textbooks.
