INNOVATIVE WORK AN INNOVATIVE LEARNING AID FOR TEACHING SOCIAL SCIENCE INTRODUCTION Innovative works and Innovative lesson plans are two important works assigned to the student-teachers as part of their B.Ed. Course. This work aims at equipping future teachers to transact the learning materials and experiences innovatively and creatively to ensure the active participation of learners in the learning process by arousing interest in them. Innovation can be broadly thought of as new ideas, new ways of looking at things, new methods or products that have value. Innovation contains the idea of output, of actually producing or doing something differently, making something happen, or implementing something new. Innovation almost always involves hard work; persistence and perseverance are necessary as many good ideas never get followed through and developed. Innovation and cr...