SOCIAL STUDIES IN ELEMENTARY
EDUCATION FINAL PAPER TESTED
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS
COMPLETE STUDY SHEET
●● Social Studies:
Answer: • Understand what social studies is
• How it comes out of a need in society
• The purpose of social studies provides to the total school curriculum
●● The Purpose of social studies:
Answer: • Develop good citizens for our society
●● Develop good citizens for our society
Answer: ◦ Students to feel positive about themselves
◦ Students want to positively contribute to their communities
◦ Students become economically independent
◦ Students be involved in the decision making process that goes on their
communities
◦ Be aware of the world around them
◦ Be free from prejudice
◦ Be fair-minded in dealing with others
,◦ Believe in justice and law
◦ Take leadership roles
●● Teaching Social studies is a challenge
Answer: • Society is changing constantly
• Teachers need find new approaches to teaching social studies
●● Teachers need find new approaches to teaching social studies
Answer: ◦ Different cultural backgrounds
◦ Active learning
◦ Solving problems
●● Teachers teaching social studies
Answer: • Become mindfully, curiously, and purposefully in teaching
• Be aware of their students and their world
●● Social Studies in elementary schools
Answer: • A subject that should be taught only of time allows it
• Reading, math, and language are "fundamentals" and has to be taught
before social studies since it is not considered a "fundamentals"
●● Fundamentals are based by
, Answer: the society, administrators, and elementary teachers
●● "Back to the basics" movement in the 1970s to early 1980s
Answer: • Social studies was disappearing in the early grades
●● Educators and politicians
Answer: • Effective social studies curriculum is basic and fundamental
in the earliest grades
●● Help students
Answer: • Learn about themselves
• Take their place in society
• have responsibility to their society
●● The National Council for the Social Studies Task Force (2009), the
purpose of elementary school social studies is to:
Answer: • Help students to understand, participate in, and make
informed decisions about their world.
• explain relationships with other people, institutions, and to the
environment
• Provides them with problem solving and decision making skills
• assessing issues and making thoughtful value judgments.
EDUCATION FINAL PAPER TESTED
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS
COMPLETE STUDY SHEET
●● Social Studies:
Answer: • Understand what social studies is
• How it comes out of a need in society
• The purpose of social studies provides to the total school curriculum
●● The Purpose of social studies:
Answer: • Develop good citizens for our society
●● Develop good citizens for our society
Answer: ◦ Students to feel positive about themselves
◦ Students want to positively contribute to their communities
◦ Students become economically independent
◦ Students be involved in the decision making process that goes on their
communities
◦ Be aware of the world around them
◦ Be free from prejudice
◦ Be fair-minded in dealing with others
,◦ Believe in justice and law
◦ Take leadership roles
●● Teaching Social studies is a challenge
Answer: • Society is changing constantly
• Teachers need find new approaches to teaching social studies
●● Teachers need find new approaches to teaching social studies
Answer: ◦ Different cultural backgrounds
◦ Active learning
◦ Solving problems
●● Teachers teaching social studies
Answer: • Become mindfully, curiously, and purposefully in teaching
• Be aware of their students and their world
●● Social Studies in elementary schools
Answer: • A subject that should be taught only of time allows it
• Reading, math, and language are "fundamentals" and has to be taught
before social studies since it is not considered a "fundamentals"
●● Fundamentals are based by
, Answer: the society, administrators, and elementary teachers
●● "Back to the basics" movement in the 1970s to early 1980s
Answer: • Social studies was disappearing in the early grades
●● Educators and politicians
Answer: • Effective social studies curriculum is basic and fundamental
in the earliest grades
●● Help students
Answer: • Learn about themselves
• Take their place in society
• have responsibility to their society
●● The National Council for the Social Studies Task Force (2009), the
purpose of elementary school social studies is to:
Answer: • Help students to understand, participate in, and make
informed decisions about their world.
• explain relationships with other people, institutions, and to the
environment
• Provides them with problem solving and decision making skills
• assessing issues and making thoughtful value judgments.
