Using a Digital SS Textbook
Each Chapter is set up around these
What are Inquiry-Based Questions?
Who? What? When? Where? Why?
What are the 5 W´s?
The everyday items used by the people we are studying.
What is an Artifact?
Tools used by a historian
What are questions, argument building based on evidence?
A way to link the “where” and “when” questions in our study of history.
What is a Geo Histogram?
This is underneath the Questions to Guide Inquiry box
What are Terms, Places, and People?
the integrated study of just four of all of those subjects in our official definition above: civics (which includes law and political science), economics, geography, and history
What is Social Studies?
The remains of someone or something who once lived
What is a Fossil?
Trying to figure out something out of nothing or with no pieces to the puzzle.
What is Studying Ancient History?
A Small Interactive piece of content embedded in the book
What is a Widget?
archaeologists, historians, researchers, and curious kids who like to investigate
What is The who?
Details recorded after an event occurs
What is a Secondary Source?
How to Read/Research/Investigate Like an Historian
What is Asking Questions
GeaCron and GeoHistoGram
What are Geo Histogram Websites?
Oftentimes our teacher writers want you to take a moment before moving on and have you answer a question to focus teacher wants you to.
What are Stop and Think Boxes?
Our primary focus will be history, but it’s not social studies until you integrate those other subjects.
What is a World History Resource?
Evidence gathered from the actual site or the real people that lived through the historical event.
What is a Primary Source.
Who is the author? • What is this author’s background? • What is the purpose of this document? • What might be going on that I am not seeing from this source?
What are questions to ask about a Document?
Each chapter also includes some smaller questions which usually have a right/wrong answer.
What are Supporting Questions?
The Study of Location
What is Geography?
Retellings of an event from a person that was there. Most of this is in written form.
What is Eyewitness Accounts?
When was it made? • Who made it? • What was it used for? • Does this confirm, modify or force me to change my current understanding of the past?
What are questions for an Artifact?
The Study of Ancient people and civilizations.
What is Ancient World History?