Five Strands of Social Studies

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Five Strands of Social Studies
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What is Social Studies?

• The study of how people over time have interacted
  with each other and their environment.
• In social studies, we have five strands of
  social studies. A strand is an area of study.

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Five Strands (or pieces) to the Social Studies
Puzzle

• They are
• Geography
• Culture
• History
• Economics
• Government

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Geography

• Physical features Continents, oceans, and
  landforms

• Longitude Latitude

• Political features countries cities

Climate weather over a period of time

• The study of people, places and the environment

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Art Recreation

• Religion Traditions

• Culture

• Food, Dress, Greetings

• Language

• The beliefs, customs, laws, art, and ways of
  living of a group of people.

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History

• We learn history from 2 sources
• Primary source document, person, or object from
  the actual time
• Secondary source document, person, or object
  that interprets or analyzes primary sources

Events that changed the way people live today

• People who changed society

• A record of the past

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Government
Personal freedom

• Citizen participation

Type of government
Structure of the government

• The people and groups within a society that have
  the authority to make laws, to make sure they
  carried out, and to settle disagreements about
  them.

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Economics
Economic systems traditional, market, command,
and mixed
Natural, Capital, and Human resources
Trade barriers, money, exchange rates
Entrepreneurs

• The study of how people manage their scarce
  (limited) resources by producing, exchanging, and
  using goods and services.

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• Five Strands of Social Studies Matrix

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Geography

• How does where you live affect how you live?
• How does the physical geography and climate
  affect how people live, work, and travel?
• What are the physical and political features of a
  region?
• How have humans changed the environment?

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Culture

• How does cultural diffusion change the region in
  which you live?
• What is the belief system of the people and how
  does it affect the region?
• How does language affect the region?
• How does local culture affect the traditions of
  the region?

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History

• How does the past shape the present?
• How have people and events changed society?
• How have influences of other, more powerful
  countries, affected countries today?
• What factors caused European countries to
  colonize the world?

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Government

• How does citizen satisfaction impact the
  government?
• How much can a citizen participate in their
  government?
• Who has the power to make laws and policies for a
  nation?
• How many levels does the government have?
  (national, regional, and local)

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Economics

• What factors influence a countrys standard of
  living?
• Who decides what, how, and for whom things are
  made? (govt, people, traditions)
• What is the role of entrepreneurs in the economy?
• How does free and restricted trade affect
  countries?