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Abstract
The study explored how social studies teachers in Senior High Schools in the Ho Municipality of Ghana use
 out-of-door activities in their teaching and learning methodology. Using a concurrent mixed method design, coupled with both convenience and purposive sampling techniques, a total of seventy (70) social studies teachers from fourteen (14) Senior High Schools in the Ho Municipality of Ghana were selected for this study. The instruments for data collection included both interview and questionnaire. Ultimately, the findings from this study revealed that most social studies teachers consider out-of-door activities in their teaching because of its educational value, despite the challenges they admitted to encountering. It was also revealed that social studies teachers do perceive out-of-door activities to be difficult to organize which affect their use of the technique in teaching. This study recommended that, in order to promote the use of out-of-door activities in the teaching and learning of social studies, the government through the Ministry of Education, Ghana Education Service (G.E.S) and Curriculum Research and Development Division (CRDD) should make funds available for senior high schools to organize out-of-door activities, specifically, in the teaching and learning of social studies to enhance students' understanding. Again, the government through the Ministry of Education and G.E.S, should advise heads of institutions to support and encourage teachers, particularly, social studies teachers to embark on out-of-door activities within and outside their school community to boost students' understanding of the concept that is mostly abstract in nature.
Highlights
Social studies is one of the major core subjects or disciplines that is widely taught at the various levels of education in Ghana, starting from the primary school level, through the Junior High School (JHS), Senior High Schools (SHS) to Teacher-Training Institutions and Universities
Notwithstanding three respondents out of the eight interviewees who affirmed that they use out-of-door activities, were able to establish to some extent that the purposes of their trips are linked with the social studies syllabus
Based on the results obtained from the study, the following conclusions have been reached: It was established that social studies teachers do use the technique in teaching and ensure that, the trips they embarked on are always aligned with the topics, which is essential feature in the organization of out-of-door activities
Summary
Social studies is one of the major core subjects or disciplines that is widely taught at the various levels of education in Ghana, starting from the primary school level, through the Junior High School (JHS), Senior High Schools (SHS) to Teacher-Training Institutions and Universities. Teachers must teach the subject so that learners can gain the relevant knowledge, positive attitudes, values and skills to enable them solve their personal and societal problems. These, as observed by Ayaaba (2011) can better be achieved if teaching and learning are contextualized or linked to the environments This is corroborated by Tyler (1949) cited in Ayaaba (2006) when he points out that “learning takes place through the active behavior of the students”. He stresses that it is what the learner does that they learn, not what the teacher does
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