Social Studies High Need Vocabulary

Exhibiting memory of previously learned material by recalling facts, terms, basic concepts, and answers.

• Remembering

• Critiquing

• Evaluating

• Understanding

Demonstrating discernment of facts and ideas by organizing, comparing, translating, interpreting, giving descriptions, and stating main ideas.

• Understanding

• Summarizing

• Analyzing

• Creating

Solving new problems by transferring previously acquired knowledge, facts, techniques, and rules.

• Applying

• Analyzing

• Evaluating

• Creating

Examining and breaking information into parts by identifying motives or causes. Making inferences and finding evidence to support generalizations.

• Analyzing

• Creating

• Understanding

• Applying

Presenting and defending opinions by making judgments about information, validity of ideas, or quality of work based on a set of criteria.

• Evaluating

• Analyzing

• Creating

• Understanding

Compiling information together in a different way by combining elements in a new pattern or proposing alternative solutions.

• Creating

• Evaluating

• Applying

• Remembering

Comparing in such a way as to emphasize differences.

• Contrasting

• Summarizing

• Evaluating

• Determining

Creating a detailed analysis and assessment of something.

• Critiquing

• Determining

• Evaluating

• Summarizing

Ascertaining or establishing exactly.

• Determining

• Comparing

• Evaluating

• Explaining

Drawing an analogy between one thing and (another) for the purposes of explanation or clarification.

• Comparing

• Contrasting

• Determining

• Understanding