INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES (Easy and comprehensive notes)
Instructional aids are those devices or procedures that help to make teaching-learning more interesting, more stimulating, more reinforcing, and more effective. Good’s Dictionary on Education says ‘Anything by means which learning process may be encouraged or carried on through the sense of hearing or sense of sight’. Burton’s opinion says, ‘Instructional aids are those sensory objects or images which initiate, stimulate, and reinforce learning’ To make teaching learning process effective, the learning environment should be made realistic. Man learns through senses. Senses are the gateway of the knowledge, Social Studies deals with time, both the past and the present, and places not only of immediate vicinity, but of different corners of the world. To make this realistic, a variety of instructional aids have to be used. These aids are stimuli for learning. SIGNIFICANCE OF INSTRUCTIONAL AIDS IN TEACHING SOCIAL SCIENCE ΓΌ They make social studies real, vivid, vital, intere...