Social Studies

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Social Studies
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• A good teacher in the state of Texas
• knows that the basic purpose of social studies
  is to PRODUCE GOOD CITIZENS.
• Incorporates CRITICAL THINKING in social studies
  by having students ask questions.
• Uses videos ONLY to introduce a subject or help
  clarify instructional content.
• Knows that social studies should NOT be taught by
  MEMORIZING dates, facts, and names.
• Knows that DEBATE is a good activity to develop
  an attitude of TOLERANCE toward differing
  opinions.

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• A good teacher in the state of Texas
• Teaches students that historical events impact
  lives today.
• Knows developing the concept of POINT OF VIEW
  helps students to become tolerant of others.
  Point of view means examining events through
  another set of eyes.
• Knows that LAWS help establish socially
  acceptable ways to resolve disputes.

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• A good teacher in the state of Texas knows the
  basic concepts of social science
• INTERDISCIPLINARY means between disciplines For
  example social studies and reading.
• INTRADISCIPLINARY means disciplines within a
  single content area. The disciplines within
  social studies include economics, history,
  geography, government, culture, and citizenship.

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• Strategies to teach social studies include
• Role playing
• Debate
• Cooperative Learning
• Simulations
• Resource Persons
• Authentic Experiences
• Expanding Communities Approach is based o the
  idea that students will be introduced each year
  to an increasingly expanding social environment

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Question

• Citizens in a community have been debating
  whether a large wooded area in the community
  should be used to build a new shopping center or
  be kept in its natural state. When a local
  fourth grade teacher begins discussing the
  controversy with her class, most students
  immediately express strong support for one view
  or the other. In response, the teacher has each
  student write a brief paper listing one or more
  positive features of the viewpoint with which
  they disagree. This activity is most likely to
  help students

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Question

• This activity is most likely to help students
• A. Develop skills for drawing valid conclusions
  and inferences from evidence.
• B. Gain an understanding of individual and group
  rights in a democracy.
• C. Develop an attitude of tolerance toward
  differing opinions.
• D. Recognize the importance of individual
  participation in a democratic system.

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• Correct Answer

C
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Qustion

• A kindergarten teacher has had children in the
  class participate in discussions about good
  citizenship. The discussions focus on ways that
  people can be good citizens in school, at home ,
  and in the community. The teacher wishes to
  reinforce these ideas by helping children acquire
  a sense of personal responsibility for the
  condition of the natural environment. Which of
  the following strategies would be developmentally
  appropriate for achieving this goal?

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• Which of the following strategies would be
  developmentally appropriate for achieving this
  goal?
• A. Discussing different kinds of environmental
  pollution and asking for suggestions for solving
  pollution problems.
• B. Asking the children to create posters showing
  examples of pollution they have observed in their
  communities.
• C. Making children aware of the different kinds
  of trash they create and teaching them how to
  dispose of it properly.
• D. Posting photographs of landfills and telling
  the children that we all contribute to this
  problem whenever we create trash.

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• Correct answer

C
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A good teacher in the state of Texas

• Knows that a teachers role in social studies is
  to provide students opportunities to apply
  CRITICAL THINKING to organize and use
  information.
• Gives students opportunities to use
• PRIMARY SOURCES First-hand witness.
• SECONDARY SOURCE Use primary sources to inform
  at a later date. Examples biographies, texts,
  trade books.
• TIMELINES Graphic representations of a
  succession of historical events, helps students
  put events into perspective.
• ATLAS Book of maps.
• ALMANAC Book, published annually, containing
  statistical information.

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A good teacher in the state of Texas

• That the CADDO NATION was once the largest and
  most powerful Native American tribe that lived in
  the Piney Woods region.
• Grew crops Agriculture
• Villages made up of large timbered houses.
• Friendly to white man.
• Plains Indians Centered lives around the buffalo.

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• MISSIONS Built by the SPANISH to teach Native
  Americans Catholicism and the Spanish way of
  life.
• Battle of San Jacinto In 1836, resluted in
  Texas Independence from Mexico.
• Join the Union in 1845.

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• In a history unit on the Texas Revolution a
  teacher wishes to promote students understanding
  of the idea that different groups often have very
  different views and perspectives regarding
  historical events. Which of the following
  discussion questions would best promote this
  understanding?

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Which of the following discussion questions would
best promote this understanding?

• A. What were the major contributions made by
  Texas colonist of British, Irish, German, Swedish
  and Italian ancestry during the Texas Revolution.
• B. Why were Texas colonists so unhappy with the
  Mexican government just before the Texas
  Revolution began?
• C. How did the fall of the Alamo affect the
  relationship between Texas and the United States?
• D. Why do you think Mexican troops were willing
  to fight and die in the struggle against the
  settlers during the Texas Revolution?

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• Correct answer

D
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• A third grade class is starting an oral history
  project in which students will choose one adult
  member of their family to interview about his or
  her life. Students will gather information about
  where the person grew up, what the persons life
  was like as a child, who the persons family
  members were, what was going on in the country
  and the world when the person was growing up, and
  how the person came to be where he or she is now.
  Students will write and illustrate a report on
  what they learn.

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This activity will help students to

• A. Appreciate how the social studies differ from
  other academic disciplines.
• B. Recognize that events of the past have
  directly and indirectly affected their own lives.
• C. Understanding different points of view
  concerning specific historical persons and
  events.
• D. Attempt to generalize larger principles form
  specific historical events.

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B
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A good teacher in the state of Texas

• Understands key concepts related to geography
• MAPS Visual means of representing location,
  distances boundaries, features resources. Move
  from three dimensional shapes (concrete) to
  abstract symbols and maps.
• RELATIVE LOCATION Where something is located in
  relation to something else. Example What is
  closer to Texas, Oklahoma or Florida?
• ABSOLUTE LOCATION Precise location on a map or
  a grid.
• Example 50 N Latitude and 50 W Longitude.

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• LINES OF LATITUDE Imaginary lines that run
  east-west direction and divide the earth into
  northern/southern hemispheres. 00 Latitude is
  the Equator and is located in Ecuador.
• LINES OF LONGITUDE Imaginary lines that run
  north-south direction and divide the earth into
  eastern/western hemisphere. 00 longitude is the
  Prime Meridian and is located in Greenwich,
  England.

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• RENEWABLE RESOURCES Those resources that can be
  replaced in the foreseeable future.
• Examples Forest, water, and air.
• NONRENEWABLE RESOURCE Those resources that are
  not readily replace.
• Examples fossil fuels like coal, oil, gas
  minerals like diamonds.

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• A hunter-gatherer population in a tropical forest
  in Southeast Asia exhibits various subsistence
  strategies and social practices that resemble
  those of a hunter-gatherer population in a
  tropical forest in Africa. This observation best
  illustrates which of the following
  generalizations about the nature of the culture?

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This observation best illustrates which of the
following generalizations about the nature of the
culture?

• A. Cultures are composed of many components that
  function as an interrelated whole.
• B. Cultural traits are learned and shared within
  groups and may spread from one group to other
  groups.
• C. Widely separated cultures may adapt in
  similar ways to similar environmental challenges.
• D. Material components of a culture are often
  easier to change than values and other
  nonmaterial components.

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• Correct Answer

C
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A good teacher in the state of Texas

• How the U.S. government is structure.
• Legislative Branch makes the law
• Executive Branch carries out the laws
• Judicial Branch Interprets the laws.
• Operates by checks and balances

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A good teacher in the state of Texas

• Knows some of the terms related to economics
• ECONOMICS the study of the ways in which goods
  and services are created, distributed, and
  exchanged.
• FREE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM Individuals control
  production of goods based on supply and demand.
• SUPPLY The amount of available goods and
  services.
• Demand The number of people who want to buy the
  product or service.
• INTERDEPENDANCE How one industry depends on the
  work of another. Cities and countries are also
  interdependent.

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A good teacher in the state of Texas

• Some basic information about the Texas ECONOMY
• Early Texas economy was based on COTTON.
• Cotton production declined because of the BOLL
  WEEVIL.
• CATTLE replaced cotton by the mid 1800s.
• 1900s Oil was the basis of Texas economy.
• Now Computers and Electronics are the largest
  exporters.

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• Which of the following questions would best
  promote second graders understanding of the need
  to support and follow societys rules and laws?
• What would probably happen if people in our
  society decided to leave all the decisions about
  rules and laws up to a few people?
• What examples can you think of to show that
  people working cooperatively can accomplish more
  than people working alone?
• What do you think would happen if everyone in our
  town did exactly as they pleased for one month?
• What are some good ways to try and change a rule
  at home or at school that you feel is unfair.

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• Correct Answer

C
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• As part of a unit on the U.S. economic system, an
  elementary class has been discussing the concept
  of production and the kinds of resources needed
  for production. Students understanding in this
  area would best be reinforced by having them

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Students understanding in this area would best
be reinforced by having them

1. Role-play the steps and procedures required to
   make and sell hamburgers at a fast-food
   restaurant, including steps and procedures
   involving farmers, middlemen, and other related
   parties.
2. Prepare budgets in cooperative learning groups
   with each group representing a family of a
   different size and with different needs.
3. Investigate was in which the U.S. and Chinese
   governments influence production, and then
   participate in a class discussion comparing the
   different government roles.
4. Draw graphs comparing average price increases for
   goods and services in the United States and other
   countries during the last 15 years.

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• Mrs. Scott is teaching her third-grade students
  about the Underground Railroad. She wants to
  make sure the lesson is meaningful, so she plans
  to bring in a primary source. Which of the
  following would be considered a primary source.
• A biography of Harriet Tubman.
• A wanted poster of Harriet Tubman from those
  times.
• Follow the Drinking Gourd, a book by Jeanette
  Winter.
• The textbook chapter on the Underground Railroad.

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• Mr. McCarthy assigned his fourth-grade class a
  research project on the earliest immigrants of
  Texas. Which of the following groups were first?
• Spanish
• English
• French
• Amerinds

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• Ms. Arcain is teaching her first grade class
  about the environment. An important concept in
  this lesson is understanding resources. She
  wants to make sure that the students understand
  the difference between natural (renewable) and
  nonrenewable resources. For review, she asks
  students
• Which of the following is Not a renewable
  resource?
• Water.
• Trees.
• Copper.
• Wind.

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• Mr. Chancellors fourth-grade class was studying
  the geographic regions of Texas. Students first
  investigated the different regions then, in small
  groups, designed travel brochures for their
  region. For the group assigned the Valley
  region, what characteristic of the region should
  they emphasize?
• Orange and grapefruit production.
• Mountains.
• Pine forests.
• Cattle, sheep, and goat ranching.

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• Mountains in the Trans-Pecos region.
• Pine forest are found in the Piney woods region.
• Sheep, cattle, and goat is predominant in the
  Great plains.

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• Ms. Thompson wants her kindergarten class to
  understand the importance of rules. How can she
  best communicates this idea to her students?
• Require that students memorize her list of five
  posted classroom rules.
• Bring a newspaper to class and have students talk
  about what the president does.
• Ask students to help develop a set of classroom
  rules.
• Ask the principal to explain the schools rules
  to the children.

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• Ms. Laine created two chocolate factories in
  her fourth-grade room. In one, she place four
  employee volunteers a mixer (a person whose
  job it was to take the chocolate out of the
  container), a pourer (to put the chocolate into
  the mold), a remover to take the chocolate out,
  a wrapper to wrap the chocolate in a special
  foil. The other factory was a sole
  proprietorship, where a lone owner did all the
  jobs. Mrs. Laine provided mixing bowls, forms,
  and aluminum foil as wraps so students could
  pretend to be doing their jobs. When Ms. Laine
  designated length of time. The assembly line
  won. In the next round, however, she had the
  mixer in the assembly line go home sick. The
  assembly line stalled because no one else knew
  this job and the sole proprietorship won. Mrs.
  Laine was teaching that

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Mrs. Laine was teaching that

1. Blue-collar workers are often in an assembly line
   position.
2. Specialization of an assembly line also requires
   cross-training.
3. The demand of a product increases the price.
4. It would be better to have a corporation.

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• Ms. Hennings fourth-grade class is ending their
  unit on the different economies of Texas. To
  ensure their understanding, Ms. Henning asks
  them the following question Which of these is
  not one of the major economies of Texas?
• Tourism.
• Oil.
• Cattle.
• Cotton.

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Respuestas

• B
• D
• C
• A
• C
• B
• A