Exploring Social Studies

Why do we learn about history?

• Because all the cool stuff happened a long time ago!

• To learn about how the past has influenced our present and future, as well as to learn from past successes and failures.

• So we know what it was like to live in a different time period

• Because it helps us remember names and dates better

What are the two main ways of measuring time?

• Absolute and approximate chronology

• Approximate and relative chronology

• Absolute and relative chronology

• Exact and precise chronology

The following are examples of what type of chronology:

-Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776)

-Attack on Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941)

-Women are allowed to vote (August 26, 1920)

• Absolute chronology

• Approximate chronology

• Exact chronology

• Precise chronology

The following are examples of which type of chronology:

-Age of exploration

-Period of westward migration

-Revolutionary era

• Relationship chronology

• Relative chronology

• Approximate chronology

• Absolute chronology

Items such as: Diaries, portraits, artifacts, and photographs are examples of:

• Primary Sources

• Secondary Sources

• Unverified sources

• Validated sources

Primary Sources are created during the time period and have...

• first hand knowledge

• more information than secondary sources

• more age than secondary sources

The following items are a type of which source?

-Textbooks

-Biographies

-Magazine articles

• Secondary source

• Verified source

• Confirmed source

• Unknown source

Geography studies...

• The Earth and its features

• How the states and countries were shaped

• How the weather affects the Earth

• The different types of rocks, soil, and minerals in the Earth

Economics is the study of:

• Money

• How things are made, bought, traded, and sold

• How money is made

• How people spend their money

The U.S. uses this type of economic system:

• Free exchange

• Free enterprise

• Free range

• Free-for-all