Section 1
Is divided into several core content areas, or strands, in our public schools: civics, geography, economics, and history
What is Social Studies
These people spend countless hours studying artifacts, reading and researching, making inquiries, and forming inferences based on the knowledge they gather
Who are Historians?
Is how people form organizations solve problems in society and help them get along with one another
What are Civics?
This helps orient the reader to the cardinal directions on the map: north, south, east, and west.
What is a Compass?
The amount of time and money we have is limited
What is Scarcity?
These people focus mainly on the physical environment and the interactions people have with it
Who are Geographers?
Historians might use textbooks, websites, biographies, artwork, or other documents that were written or created by a second person about the event or historical person
What are Secondary Sources?
All people should be treated fairly in getting the advantages and disadvantages of our country
What is Justice?
Is the study of the Earth's Surface
What is Geography?
If you would have gone to the park with your family and hadn’t gone to the movie, then the park would be an example of this
What is Opportunity Cost?
This is the study of the choices people make based on their available resources; time, money, and opportunity
What is Economics?
These are first-hand documents, like journals and diaries, pictures, artifacts, and other resources that come directly from the past.
What are Primary Sources?
These people who study many different governments
Who are Political Scientists?
What is the Equator?
Is a subject we live with every day of our lives
What is Economics?
People who study Civics are known as
Who are Political Scientists?
Historians use this graph to easily see our history and the history of the world in an organized way.
What is a Timeline?
Are the fundamental beliefs and constitutional principles of American society which unite all Americans
What are Core Democratic Values?
These lines on a map make a grid system
What is Longitude and Latitude?
We use our time and money to make decisions based on this
What are Wants and Needs?
It is often said that history is written by these people
Who are the Victors?
The years 1 - 99
What is the 1st Century?
Is the study of all governments
What is Political Science?
This line helps us with our global time system.
What is the Prime Meridian?
How we use our time, any resources in our life, is based on this economic idea of
What is Choice?