Social Studies - Core Subjects EC-6 (291)
Questions and Correct Answers
Social Studies Ans: Umbrella term encompassing:
History
Geography
Civics and government
Economics
Psychology
NCTSS Ans: 1997
National Council for the Teaching of Social Studies
Curriculum Ans: K - child, home, family, classroom
1 - child's relationship to classroom, school, and community
2 - local community
3 - how individuals change their communities and the world
4 - history of Texas
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5 - United States history
6 - people and places of the contemporary world
Tools Ans: Symbolic representation:
Maps (Mercator projection)
Globes (K-3 use 12" globes; 4-6 use 16")
Geospatial technologies:
Digital globes
Primary and secondary sources:
Encyclopedias
Almanacs
Atlases
Government documents
Artifacts
Oral histories
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Graphic representations:
Graphs (pictorial, bar, line, pie)
Charts (data retrieval charts, narrative charts,
tabulation/classification chart, pedigree chart, organizational
chart, flowchart)
Graphic organizers
ELL books
Adventures Tales of America by Jody Potts
Avenues series by Hampton Brown
Latitude Ans: Distance, in degrees, north or south of the equator.
Longitude Ans: Distance, in degrees, east or west of the prime
meridian.
Prime meridian Ans: Prime meridian = 0 degree line of longitude,
first meridian, divides the earth into eastern and western
hemispheres.
Prime meridian is Greenwich, England.
Equator Ans: Equator = 0 degree line of latitude, divides earth into
northern and Southern Hemispheres
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International Date Line Ans: 180° the meridian longitude, mid-
Pacific Ocean
Hemispheres of the earth Ans: Northern
Southern
Western
Eastern
Graphic organizers Ans: Visuals that show relationships.
Semantic web/tree diagram
Timeline
Flowchart
Venn diagram
SQ4R
SQ4R Ans: Survey
Question
Read
Record
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