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Social Studies - Core Subjects EC-6 (291) Questions with
Answers (100% Correct Answers)
Social Studies Answer: Umbrella term encompassing:
History
Geography
Civics and government
Economics
Psychology
NCTSS Answer: 1997
National Council for the Teaching of Social Studies
Curriculum Answer: K - child, home, family, classroom
1 - child's relationship to classroom, school, and community
2 - local community
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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 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
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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 Answer: Distance, in degrees, north or south of the equator.
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Longitude Answer: Distance, in degrees, east or west of the prime
meridian.
Prime meridian Answer: Prime meridian = 0 degree line of longitude,
first meridian, divides the earth into eastern and western hemispheres.
Prime meridian is Greenwich, England.
Equator Answer: Equator = 0 degree line of latitude, divides earth into
northern and Southern Hemispheres
International Date Line Answer: 180° the meridian longitude, mid-
Pacific Ocean
Hemispheres of the earth Answer: Northern
Southern
Western
Eastern
Graphic organizers Answer: Visuals that show relationships.
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Social Studies - Core Subjects EC-6 (291) Questions with
Answers (100% Correct Answers)
Social Studies Answer: Umbrella term encompassing:
History
Geography
Civics and government
Economics
Psychology
NCTSS Answer: 1997
National Council for the Teaching of Social Studies
Curriculum Answer: K - child, home, family, classroom
1 - child's relationship to classroom, school, and community
2 - local community
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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 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
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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 Answer: Distance, in degrees, north or south of the equator.
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Longitude Answer: Distance, in degrees, east or west of the prime
meridian.
Prime meridian Answer: Prime meridian = 0 degree line of longitude,
first meridian, divides the earth into eastern and western hemispheres.
Prime meridian is Greenwich, England.
Equator Answer: Equator = 0 degree line of latitude, divides earth into
northern and Southern Hemispheres
International Date Line Answer: 180° the meridian longitude, mid-
Pacific Ocean
Hemispheres of the earth Answer: Northern
Southern
Western
Eastern
Graphic organizers Answer: Visuals that show relationships.
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