Social Studies Test 2

Front 1

Use ____________ from different time periods to increase understanding and empathy of different cultures.

Back 1

art and music

Front 2

Let students see the relevance of the past to the present by having what?

Back 2

discussion

Front 3

________ help students feel how it was to live in a different time period, especially in a crisis situation.

Back 3

simulations

Front 4

Most children acquire the concept of time by gradually recognizing that events fall into _______.

Back 4

patterns

Front 5

_____________ is a more mature time sense that allows us to move away from personal experiences and extend our understanding of time backward and forward.

Back 5

chronology

Front 6

________ are a way to organize and understand time

Back 6

timelines

Front 7

With historical fictions, historians are constantly changing their views about what?

Back 7

topics in history

Front 8

History is socially constructed, debated, and what?

Back 8

revised

Front 9

What are the 3 approaches to teaching history?

Back 9

authentic learning
active learning
Direct learning/transmission

Front 10

__________________ is fragments from the past that can serve as evidence for understanding more complete interpretations of the past.

Back 10

authentic learning

Front 11

__________ focuses more on learning activities that require students to reorganize or re represent background material. Students assign meaning to facts through inquiry learning. Students make connections between otherwise disconnected information. This approach helps students possess historical knowledge that has meaning and context.

Back 11

active learning

Front 12

____________is when the teacher is in possession of some knowledge and can effectively transfer the understanding to learners using direct instructional methods. a fixed body of knowledge is being transferred as a whole, without critical examination. Focus on low-level forms of knowledge such as dates of events and names of important characters in history.

Back 12

direct learning/transmission

Front 13

A ____________ is when a student dressed with an appropriate hat or costume, memorizes a speech to be recited in the first person.

Back 13

living museum

Front 14

A very successful approach for students presenting historical information to the class is to have a student do what?

Back 14

a living museum

Front 15

___________ is a field of study to help us understand people, places, and environment, and how they affect each other.

Back 15

geography

Front 16

What are the 5 themes of geography?

Back 16

location
place
human environment interaction
movement
regions

Front 17

___________ is position on earths surface.

Back 17

location

Front 18

__________ is physical and human characteristics.

Back 18

Place

Front 19

______________ is relationships within places.

Back 19

human environment interaction

Front 20

___________ is humans interacting on earth.

Back 20

movement

Front 21

In geography, ___________ is used to indicate how people and places form and change.

Back 21

regions

Front 22

___________ are used to identify certain things that are labeled on a map. For example: mountains, rivers, railroad tracks, etc.

Back 22

Map symbols

Front 23

_________ requires visualizing abilities

Back 23

map making

Front 24

What are these 4 steps?
- collect or observe data
-organize or simplify data
-plan the map in terms of scale
-draft or draw the map

Back 24

the supreme map understanding

Front 25

People choose, people’s choices involve costs, people respond to incentives in predictable ways, people create economic systems that influence individual choices and incentives, people gain when hey trade voluntarily, people’s choices have consequences that lie in the future are all what?

Back 25

economic principles

Front 26

____________ is when people cannot have all the goods and service that they want; as a result hey must choose some things and give up others.

Back 26

scarcity

Front 27

What can be used to teach economics?

Back 27

games

Front 28

__________ are more likely to increase in number as businesses believe that this is the best way to tell consumers about their goods and services.

Back 28

advertisements

Front 29

Citizenship education is about what?

Back 29

students' behavior

Front 30

____________ is the integration of community service with academic learning

Back 30

service learning

Front 31

Improves academic achievement, Meets real community needs, Promotes seeing the problem as an issue, Improves self esteem of students are all benefits of what?

Back 31

service learning

Front 32

_____________ is a strategy where teachers model and use problem solving steps to help build classroom community.

Back 32

mediation

Front 33

What are the social studies content strands?

Back 33

Civics, history, geography, and economics

Front 34

What are the 5 roles in literature circles?

Back 34

• Word wizard
• Summarizer
• Map maker
• Illustrator
• Concept connector

Front 35

________________ enables students to reexamine history and to look at questions of right and wrong as they relate to the law and the legal system.

Back 35

mock trials

Front 36

______________ requires good listening skills and sensory imagination. Students are asked to sit with their eyes closed, and to envision as vividly as they can as particular scene as it is described to them..

Back 36

visualizations (guided fantasies)

Front 37

___________ is a read aloud. Students listen for particular words or phrases. When they hear them they quickly respond in a predetermined way. Assign the roles within the group and rehearse responses before doing the story.

Back 37

class action drama

Front 38

_________ is a comic device because boasting is considered inappropriate behavior in society.

Back 38

brags

Front 39

____________ is where central characters are depicted in impossible situations, dire straights, form which it may seem impossible to get out of.

Back 39

cliffhangers

Front 40

____________ reveal history, philosophy, or plans of an individual

Back 40

character monologues

Front 41

In ______________ you should select event that will put children in touch with the historical and cultural heritage.

Back 41

reenactments

Front 42

In ____________ the event should be one that can be done without any violence to one another.

Back 42

reenactments

Front 43

An interview is a what?

Back 43

interactional drama

Front 44

In a ________ the visitor gives an introduction and then answers questions.

Back 44

interview

Front 45

In _________, the visitor, in role, tells stories about his/her life.

Back 45

storytelling

Front 46

With ___________ visitors have a conversation staged so that the students seem to be overhearing something they were not meant to hear, freeze signal.

Back 46

eavesdropping

Front 47

In ______________different actors, taking different sides, try to get the children to side with them.

Back 47

recruitment

Front 48

In ______________ the actors are set up to have a conflict. One of the characters wins sympathy of the students and gets them to help defend him or her against the adversary.

Back 48

confrontation