Social Studies Curriculum
Instructional Strategies
Teaching Economics
Teaching Geography
Teaching Civic Education
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This is a common topic for the social studies curriculum in Kindergarten.
What is learning about yourself and others?
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Students read parts of "The Little Red Hen" and discuss how their character was involved in the problem and solution of the story.
What is role playing?
100
This economics term means that you cannot have everything that you want...you have to choose this OR that.
What is scarcity?
100
Zero degrees latitude
What is the Equator?
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The three components of civic education.
What are: Knowledge Skills Dispositions
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This is the name given to the pattern of the scope and sequence of social studies instruction.
What is expanding horizons?
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The teacher demonstrates how distance can be measured on a map, using the scale. The students then practice measuring distances on a map, while the teacher walks around the room to help students as needed.
What is direct teaching?
200
You want to buy a new car. What would an opportunity cost be in this situation?
What is anything that you would have to "give up" in order to buy the car...maybe something else that you wanted to buy with the money, maybe time to work more hours to earn more money...
200
Zero degrees longitude
What is the Prime Meridian?
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List one thing that you would do to help students gain knowledge about civic education.
What is teaching students about rules and school governance...such as: Creating own classroom rules Using fables to discuss following rules
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This is the most important goal in social studies education.
What is teaching citizenship?
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The students work in small groups to become an expert about one of five different countries, which the students have selected to research. Then, one person from each country group gathers to form a new group, and teach the others about the country they researched.
What is cooperative learning?
300
What is a capital resource that would be needed to produce a loaf of bread?
What is anything that is manmade: oven, factory that mills the flour...
300
This term means the amount of people the land can support.
What is carrying capacity?
300
List one skill that is a critical component of civic education.
What is conflict resolution?
400
List one of the 10 common themes of Social Studies.
What are: Culture Time, Continuity, and Change People, Places, and Environment Individual Development and Identity Individuals, Groups, and Institutions Power, Authority, and Governance Production, Distribution, and Consumption Science, Technology, and Society Global Connections Civic Ideals and Practice
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A teacher explains to a class of fourth grade students: "Our principal would like to use some building funds to improve our elementary school, and she is open to suggestions from each classroom for how to use these funds. What suggestion should we give to the principal to help improve our school?"
What is problem based learning?
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List a human resource that would be involved in making a toy.
Any type of skill or labor that would be needed to produce the toy: carpentry skills, sewing skills....
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List one strategy for improving geographic literacy.
What are: Designing learning experiences built on students' own backgrounds Using children's literature Incorporating technology
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List one thing that you would do to teach students about dispositions of civic education.
What is creating a caring classroom environment...
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List five ways that teachers can make their social studies instruction POWERFUL.
What are making social studies: Meaningful Challenging Interpretive Value Based Active
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During Junior Achievement, the students are placed in one of two groups. One group makes donuts by having each person make one donut at a time. The other group makes donuts by having an assembly line, where each student is responsible for one part of the donut making. The output of these two groups is compared.
What is simulation?
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List the 5 stages of economics reasoning...
What are: 1. Identify the question or problem. 2. List the alternatives. 3. Identify the advantages and disadvantages of each alternative. 4. Choose the best alternative. 5. Reevaluate the consequences of the decision.
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List the five themes of geography.
What are: Location (position on Earth's surface) Place (physical and human characteristics) Human/Environment Interaction (Ecology) Movement (transportation) Regions (how they form and change)
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This type of education integrates community service with academic learning.
What is service learning?
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