What is Social Studies?

What is Social Studies?

Let's look at the five main themes.

Social Studies is History.

History is the study of the past. We analyze the past in five ways.

POLITICAL

• The government in a nation, state, city, or community

• The leaders in the government might be elected, appointed, or in some cases born to this high position

• The people in government make the laws and policies that should be followed

• Government is also known as politics

Multiple Choice

What does Political mean?

• religion

• money

• government

Economics

• How a nation, business, or person makes money and wealth

• Businesses create wealth through buying and selling goods

• Goods are determined by the resources found in a place: water, oil, lumber, food, inventions

• Banks play a large role in the economy

Multiple Choice

What is the goal of economics?

• making money

• making laws

• making maps

Geography

• is the study of the earth and its land forms

• people make maps to show the physical features of a place

• On the earth, there are many continents, countries, and cities within those countries

• Your geography determines your climate, local resources and foods

• Your geography is your placement on the planet earth

Multiple Choice

What is geography?

• the study of government

• the study of culture

• The study of the earth

Culture

• Social customs and traditions

• Religion and beliefs

• Artistic achievements

• Habits and behaviors

Multiple Choice

Culture includes

• jobs and wealth

• map making

• social customs

Inventions

• These are innovations that should make our lives easier

• The first great invention was fire and then there was the wheel

• The invention of writing and the printing press was a big deal

• other more modern inventions are electricity, the telephone, cars, rockets, trains, nuclear bombs, vaccines, computers . . .

Multiple Choice

Why are inventions important?

• They make our lives easier.

• They make our lives harder.