Social Studies - Core Subjects EC-6 (291)
UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Social Studies - CORRECT ANSWER - Umbrella term encompassing:
History
Geography
Civics and government
Economics
Psychology
NCTSS - CORRECT ANSWER - 1997
National Council for the Teaching of Social Studies
Curriculum - CORRECT ANSWER - 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
5 - United States history
6 - people and places of the contemporary world
Tools - CORRECT ANSWER - 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
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 - CORRECT ANSWER - Distance, in degrees, north or south of the equator.
Longitude - CORRECT ANSWER - Distance, in degrees, east or west of the prime
meridian.
Prime meridian - CORRECT ANSWER - Prime meridian = 0 degree line of longitude,
first meridian, divides the earth into eastern and western hemispheres.
Prime meridian is Greenwich, England.
,Equator - CORRECT ANSWER - Equator = 0 degree line of latitude, divides earth into
northern and Southern Hemispheres
International Date Line - CORRECT ANSWER - 180° the meridian longitude, mid-Pacific
Ocean
Hemispheres of the earth - CORRECT ANSWER - Northern
Southern
Western
Eastern
Graphic organizers - CORRECT ANSWER - Visuals that show relationships.
Semantic web/tree diagram
Timeline
Flowchart
Venn diagram
SQ4R
Venn diagram - CORRECT ANSWER -
SQ4R - CORRECT ANSWER - Survey
Question
Read
Record
Recite
Review
, Sheltered English - CORRECT ANSWER - Instructional approach designed to shelter
children from the pressure of competing with native English learners.
Academic vocabulary - CORRECT ANSWER - Vocab needed to understand the concepts
in school...and to pass standardized exams.
6-step systematic approach:
1. Provide a description, explanation, or example of the new term.
2. Students restate this in their own words.
3. Students create a representation of the word by drawing a picture, symbol, or graph.
4. Students periodically participate in activities to add to their knowledge of terms.
5. Students discuss terms with one another.
6. Students participate in games and activities that reinforce a new term.
Cooperative learning - CORRECT ANSWER - Students work in small groups to achieve
instructional goals; less anxiety.
1. Present goals/objectives
2. Present information
3. Organize into teams
4. Assist teamwork and study
5. Test students on the content
UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Social Studies - CORRECT ANSWER - Umbrella term encompassing:
History
Geography
Civics and government
Economics
Psychology
NCTSS - CORRECT ANSWER - 1997
National Council for the Teaching of Social Studies
Curriculum - CORRECT ANSWER - 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
5 - United States history
6 - people and places of the contemporary world
Tools - CORRECT ANSWER - 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
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 - CORRECT ANSWER - Distance, in degrees, north or south of the equator.
Longitude - CORRECT ANSWER - Distance, in degrees, east or west of the prime
meridian.
Prime meridian - CORRECT ANSWER - Prime meridian = 0 degree line of longitude,
first meridian, divides the earth into eastern and western hemispheres.
Prime meridian is Greenwich, England.
,Equator - CORRECT ANSWER - Equator = 0 degree line of latitude, divides earth into
northern and Southern Hemispheres
International Date Line - CORRECT ANSWER - 180° the meridian longitude, mid-Pacific
Ocean
Hemispheres of the earth - CORRECT ANSWER - Northern
Southern
Western
Eastern
Graphic organizers - CORRECT ANSWER - Visuals that show relationships.
Semantic web/tree diagram
Timeline
Flowchart
Venn diagram
SQ4R
Venn diagram - CORRECT ANSWER -
SQ4R - CORRECT ANSWER - Survey
Question
Read
Record
Recite
Review
, Sheltered English - CORRECT ANSWER - Instructional approach designed to shelter
children from the pressure of competing with native English learners.
Academic vocabulary - CORRECT ANSWER - Vocab needed to understand the concepts
in school...and to pass standardized exams.
6-step systematic approach:
1. Provide a description, explanation, or example of the new term.
2. Students restate this in their own words.
3. Students create a representation of the word by drawing a picture, symbol, or graph.
4. Students periodically participate in activities to add to their knowledge of terms.
5. Students discuss terms with one another.
6. Students participate in games and activities that reinforce a new term.
Cooperative learning - CORRECT ANSWER - Students work in small groups to achieve
instructional goals; less anxiety.
1. Present goals/objectives
2. Present information
3. Organize into teams
4. Assist teamwork and study
5. Test students on the content
