TEXES EC-6 Social Studies UPDATED
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Social Studies - CORRECT ANSWER - is an umbrella term encompassing the disciplines
of history, geography, civics and government, economics, and psychology.
TEKS in Social Studies - CORRECT ANSWER - The Texas Essential Knowledge and
Skills (TEKS) is the state curriculum for kindergarten to grade 12. The TEKS organizes the
social studies content inductively, from the known to the unknown. In this alignment, children
begin learning about the self in kindergarten and expand their knowledge with each successive
grade, eventually encompassing the community, the state, the nation, and the world.
Key Components of Kindergarten Social Studies Curriculum - CORRECT ANSWER -
Child, Home, Family, and Classroom.
1. The child as an individual.
2. Home and Families
3. State and national heritage
4. Patriotic holidays and the contribution of historical character
Key Components of 1st Grade Social Studies Curriculum - CORRECT ANSWER - Child's
Relationship to the Classroom, School and Community
1. The concept of chronology developed by distinguishing among past, present, and future
2. Anthems and mottoes of Texas and the United States
3. Relationship among the classroom, school, and community.
Key Components of 2nd Grade Social Studies Curriculum - CORRECT ANSWER - Local
Community
1. Impact of significant individuals and events in the history of the community, state and nation
2. Concepts of time and chronology by measuring calendar time by days, weeks, months, and
years
,3. Relationship between the physical environment and human activities
4. Functions of government and the services it provides.
Key Components of 3rd Grade Social Studies Curriculum - CORRECT ANSWER - How
Individuals Change Their Communities and the World
1. Past and present heroes and their contributions
2. People who overcame obstacles
3. Economic, cultural, and scientific contributions made by individuals.
Key Components of 4th Grade Social Studies Curriculum - CORRECT ANSWER -
History of Texas
1. History of Texas from its beginning to the present
2. Events and individuals of the 19th and 20th centuries
3. Human activity and physical features of regions in Texas and the Western Hemisphere
4. Native Americans in Texas and the Western Hemisphere
5. European exploration and colonization
6. Types of Native American governments
7. Characteristics of Spanish and Mexican colonial governments
Key Components of 5th Grade Social Studies Curriculum - CORRECT ANSWER - United
States History
1. History of the United States from its beginning to the present
2. Significant events and individuals of the late 19th and 20th centuries, including contributions
of important inventors and scientists
3. Regions of the United States that result from physical features and human activity
4. Characteristics and benefits of the free enterprise system
5. Roots of representative government
6. Important ideas in the Declaration of Independence
7. Meaning of the Pledge of Allegiance
,8. Fundamental rights guaranteed in the Bill of Rights
9,. Customs and celebrations of racial, ethnic, and religious groups in the United States
Key Components of 6th Grade Social Studies Curriculum - CORRECT ANSWER - People
and Places of the Contemporary World
1. This part of the curriculum is designed to introduce students to the concepts of cultural
geography. The discipline of geography explores patterns, relationships, and processes at least to
global scale.
2. People and places of the contemporary world
3. Societies from the following regions in the world: Europe, Russia and the Eurasian republics,
North America, Middle America, South America, Southwest Asia-North Africa, Sub Saharan
Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia, and the Pacific realms.
4. Influence of individuals and groups from different cultures on selected historical and
contemporary events
5. Different ways of organizing economic and governmental systems
Literature Based Approach - CORRECT ANSWER - Ideal way to integrate Social Studies
with language arts.
Through the use of authentic multicultural literature, teachers can expose children to quality
reading as well as the cultures of the many ethnic and linguistic groups living in the United
States.
Social studies is strongly linked with English Language Arts and Reading. It not only requires
strong reading and writing skills but also support reading by providing an understanding of the
history as well as the physical and cultural characteristics of a place.
Thematic Instruction - CORRECT ANSWER - In this approach, a teacher or teachers
select a theme and organize content area instruction around it. It can be done in a self-contained
classroom or in a departmental format in which several teachers teach the content.
Ideal for ELL's because the use of a common theme in multiple content areas makes content
more cognitively accessible for them.
, Maps; Globes - CORRECT ANSWER - Symbolic representation can pose challenges for
children in kindergarten through grade 4 and occasionally in grades 5 and 6. _________ and
__________ are tools for representing space symbolically.
Globes - CORRECT ANSWER - are a mathematical model of the Earth and show correct,
unaltered (not distorted) distance, size, and shape of continents and bodies of water. They can
also help in studying the proportion of land and water.
Globe for Kindergarten through 3rd grade - CORRECT ANSWER - Teachers should use a
simplified 12-inch globe that uses no more that 3 colors to represent land elevation and no more
than 2 colors to represent water depth. The globe should include only the largest river, cities, and
oceans.
Globes for grades 4 through 6 - CORRECT ANSWER - can be 16-inch globes and
contains additional details and usually seven colors to represent land elevation and three colors to
represent water depth.
Maps - CORRECT ANSWER - are a flat representation of the world and distort the
distance, size , or shape of the continents and bodies of water.
Mercator projection - CORRECT ANSWER - is a cylindrical map projection presented by
the Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569.
Steps to the Inquiry Teaching Approach - CORRECT ANSWER - develop a question,
propose a hypothesis, collect and organize data, analyze the collected data, draw conclusions
from the data to answer the question, form a generalization based on the conclusions
Evaluating Internet Materials - CORRECT ANSWER - purpose? url? author? accuracy?
objectivity?
Chronology - CORRECT ANSWER - arrangement of events in order of occurrence
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Social Studies - CORRECT ANSWER - is an umbrella term encompassing the disciplines
of history, geography, civics and government, economics, and psychology.
TEKS in Social Studies - CORRECT ANSWER - The Texas Essential Knowledge and
Skills (TEKS) is the state curriculum for kindergarten to grade 12. The TEKS organizes the
social studies content inductively, from the known to the unknown. In this alignment, children
begin learning about the self in kindergarten and expand their knowledge with each successive
grade, eventually encompassing the community, the state, the nation, and the world.
Key Components of Kindergarten Social Studies Curriculum - CORRECT ANSWER -
Child, Home, Family, and Classroom.
1. The child as an individual.
2. Home and Families
3. State and national heritage
4. Patriotic holidays and the contribution of historical character
Key Components of 1st Grade Social Studies Curriculum - CORRECT ANSWER - Child's
Relationship to the Classroom, School and Community
1. The concept of chronology developed by distinguishing among past, present, and future
2. Anthems and mottoes of Texas and the United States
3. Relationship among the classroom, school, and community.
Key Components of 2nd Grade Social Studies Curriculum - CORRECT ANSWER - Local
Community
1. Impact of significant individuals and events in the history of the community, state and nation
2. Concepts of time and chronology by measuring calendar time by days, weeks, months, and
years
,3. Relationship between the physical environment and human activities
4. Functions of government and the services it provides.
Key Components of 3rd Grade Social Studies Curriculum - CORRECT ANSWER - How
Individuals Change Their Communities and the World
1. Past and present heroes and their contributions
2. People who overcame obstacles
3. Economic, cultural, and scientific contributions made by individuals.
Key Components of 4th Grade Social Studies Curriculum - CORRECT ANSWER -
History of Texas
1. History of Texas from its beginning to the present
2. Events and individuals of the 19th and 20th centuries
3. Human activity and physical features of regions in Texas and the Western Hemisphere
4. Native Americans in Texas and the Western Hemisphere
5. European exploration and colonization
6. Types of Native American governments
7. Characteristics of Spanish and Mexican colonial governments
Key Components of 5th Grade Social Studies Curriculum - CORRECT ANSWER - United
States History
1. History of the United States from its beginning to the present
2. Significant events and individuals of the late 19th and 20th centuries, including contributions
of important inventors and scientists
3. Regions of the United States that result from physical features and human activity
4. Characteristics and benefits of the free enterprise system
5. Roots of representative government
6. Important ideas in the Declaration of Independence
7. Meaning of the Pledge of Allegiance
,8. Fundamental rights guaranteed in the Bill of Rights
9,. Customs and celebrations of racial, ethnic, and religious groups in the United States
Key Components of 6th Grade Social Studies Curriculum - CORRECT ANSWER - People
and Places of the Contemporary World
1. This part of the curriculum is designed to introduce students to the concepts of cultural
geography. The discipline of geography explores patterns, relationships, and processes at least to
global scale.
2. People and places of the contemporary world
3. Societies from the following regions in the world: Europe, Russia and the Eurasian republics,
North America, Middle America, South America, Southwest Asia-North Africa, Sub Saharan
Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia, and the Pacific realms.
4. Influence of individuals and groups from different cultures on selected historical and
contemporary events
5. Different ways of organizing economic and governmental systems
Literature Based Approach - CORRECT ANSWER - Ideal way to integrate Social Studies
with language arts.
Through the use of authentic multicultural literature, teachers can expose children to quality
reading as well as the cultures of the many ethnic and linguistic groups living in the United
States.
Social studies is strongly linked with English Language Arts and Reading. It not only requires
strong reading and writing skills but also support reading by providing an understanding of the
history as well as the physical and cultural characteristics of a place.
Thematic Instruction - CORRECT ANSWER - In this approach, a teacher or teachers
select a theme and organize content area instruction around it. It can be done in a self-contained
classroom or in a departmental format in which several teachers teach the content.
Ideal for ELL's because the use of a common theme in multiple content areas makes content
more cognitively accessible for them.
, Maps; Globes - CORRECT ANSWER - Symbolic representation can pose challenges for
children in kindergarten through grade 4 and occasionally in grades 5 and 6. _________ and
__________ are tools for representing space symbolically.
Globes - CORRECT ANSWER - are a mathematical model of the Earth and show correct,
unaltered (not distorted) distance, size, and shape of continents and bodies of water. They can
also help in studying the proportion of land and water.
Globe for Kindergarten through 3rd grade - CORRECT ANSWER - Teachers should use a
simplified 12-inch globe that uses no more that 3 colors to represent land elevation and no more
than 2 colors to represent water depth. The globe should include only the largest river, cities, and
oceans.
Globes for grades 4 through 6 - CORRECT ANSWER - can be 16-inch globes and
contains additional details and usually seven colors to represent land elevation and three colors to
represent water depth.
Maps - CORRECT ANSWER - are a flat representation of the world and distort the
distance, size , or shape of the continents and bodies of water.
Mercator projection - CORRECT ANSWER - is a cylindrical map projection presented by
the Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569.
Steps to the Inquiry Teaching Approach - CORRECT ANSWER - develop a question,
propose a hypothesis, collect and organize data, analyze the collected data, draw conclusions
from the data to answer the question, form a generalization based on the conclusions
Evaluating Internet Materials - CORRECT ANSWER - purpose? url? author? accuracy?
objectivity?
Chronology - CORRECT ANSWER - arrangement of events in order of occurrence
