SS Midterm

Question 1

Traditional SS vs. This course

Answer 1

traditional uses rote memorization and the facts, this course is hands on activities and critical thinking.

Question 2

learning styles: students vs teacher

Answer 2

students are visual learners most of the time and teacher are auditory learners most often. most teaching is auditory

Question 3

Why is SS not often taught in NV?

Answer 3

we have put an emphasis on math and ELA so SS has been cut back.

Question 4

Culture

Answer 4

Learned behaviors, traditions, beliefs and a way of life created by a group of humans

Question 5

Ethnocentric

Answer 5

believing your culture is superior to others.

Question 6

Primary sources

Answer 6

best sources, documents, letters, photographs, music

Question 7

Secondary sources

Answer 7

still good sources, biographies, historical fiction.

Question 8

where did history begin?

Answer 8

in Sumer, Mesopotamia, though indigenous argue with that due to oral histories and pictographs

Question 9

why study history?

Answer 9

to learn from our mistakes
to purposefully repeat the past
to learn from what we did right
to predict the future
to remember
to honor

Question 10

why study Geography?

Answer 10

travel, science, history, culture, military, environment, etc.

Question 11

Mercator map

Answer 11

stretches the north hemisphere and is most commonly found in classrooms

Question 12

What is the most accurate map we have?

Answer 12

Robinson map, stretches the south pole and antarctica

Question 13

round to flat problem

Answer 13

there will always be distortion

Question 14

3 most taught SS subjects

Answer 14

history, geography, and government.

Question 15

2 changes to the pledge

Answer 15

‘my flag’ changed to ‘the flag’

‘of the united states of america’ added

Question 16

patriotism

Answer 16

should not be enforced such as forcing students to say the pledge. should be allowed to show it in your own way.

Question 17

something unique about the articles of the constitution

Answer 17

a way to amend the articles was put in place from the beginning, knowing there would need to be a way, takes 3/4 of the states to make an amendment.

Question 18

survival activity

Answer 18

group became a communist community, evenly distributed the food and looked out for one another.

Question 19

tolerance

Answer 19

the practice of recognizing and respecting the beliefs or practices of others

Question 20

Tolerate

Answer 20

to accept or endure

Question 21

Film examples

Answer 21

Chinese-Americans being forced to work on the railroads, then Japanese-Americans being forced out of their homes and into camps during WWII.