Social Studies
A part of a school or college curriculum concerned with the study of social relationships and the functioning of society and usually made up of courses in history, government, economics, civics, sociology, geography, and anthropology.
What is Social Studies?
The two components you needed to incorporate in your Social Studies Unit Design
What is Equity and Technology components?
One of the most celebrated thinkers and founders of constructivism, known by contributing with the ZPD, scaffolding, and More Knowledgeable other.
What is Vigotsky?
The study of the physical features of the earth and its atmosphere, and of human activity as it affects and is affected by these, including the distribution of populations and resources, land use, and industries.
What is Geography?
According to Kroeber (1959), there were so many similarities between anthropology and sociology that they could be regarded as
What is “twin sisters".
A science connected to Social Studies that deals with the study of past events, particularly in human affairs, and stablished the division of historical periods based on chronological thinking
What is History?
The two main type of texts the we worked in class to be integrated in the Social Studies content.
What are narrative and persuasive texts?
A branch in Constructivism heavily based in the interactions of people as a fundamental part of learning process.
A type of thinking that involves understanding how geography affects the humans living in a place, and in turn how humans affect the space they live in.
What is Geographical/Spatial Thinking?
According to Kroeber, it was the "how they carried out their research"
What is the most obvious difference between the two disciplines?
It represented the separation between Pre-History and History.
What is the invention of Writing?
These is the preferred framework in this class to understand the integration of Technology in the Social studies class
What is the SAMR model?
In this branch of Constructivismm Piaget introduced concepts such as developmental Stages such as
What is Cognitive Constructivism?
The three main components when teaching maps in elementary
What are compass, the legend and the scale?
Sociology and Anthropology mostly attain to TWo of the four aspects when teaching History (Political, social, economic, and cultural.
What are the Social and cultural aspects?
The oldest pre-historic period.
What is Paleolithic?
The Xreal Lab at CSUSB has great expertise in this type of technology.
What is Augmented Reality?
In social Studies, an approach to curriculum based on Children first-hand explorations, to the expand and connect to increasingly remote places, dates, people, events, the Teacher no longer center of the instruction, more a facilitator.
Wha is Progressive Curriculum ?
The two main types of maps in elementary classes.
What are Physical and Political maps?
The four Multicultural education four approaches to teaching social studies
What are contributions, additive transformative and social action?
The two approaches to teaching History
What is Chronological and Thematic?
In 1903, it was formally introduced in the curriculum of Elem. Schools according to the American Historical Association.
What is History?
These theories belong to this new educational theory: Learning and knowledge rest in diversity of opinion, Learning is a process of connecting specialized nodes or information sources, Learning may reside in non-human appliances, Nurturing and maintaining connections is needed to facilitate continual learning, Ability to see connections between fields, ideas, and concepts is a core skill.
What is connectivism?
The father of Modern Geography
Who is Humboldt?
In other parts of the world, this science is a separate science, but in the US falls under the Anthropology science.
What is archeology?