INTRO TO SOCIAL STUDIES8-26/27-2015:

WARM UP: COPY THE SPIDER DIAGRAM INTO YOUR NOTEBOOK.

***Map homework out and ready to be checked!

***Each table group needs 1 or 2 copies of the yellow S.S. textbook from the bookshelf by the door

**Pick up another copy of “Superman and Me”

History/Historians

Awesome

BRAINSTORMING:

Record as many ideas,

thoughts or feelings you have about

history/historians into your spider diagram.

Add as many lines to your diagram as you can.

oBe prepared to share!

WHAT IS SOCIAL STUDIES?Social Studies is the study of the social sciences.

Geography

History

Government

Civics- the study of the rights and duties of citizenship.

Economics- the social science that seeks to describe the factors which determine the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services.

IN THE STUDY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, THERE ARE NO FACTS, ONLY QUESTIONS, THAT HELP US DISCOVER AND SOLVE THE MYSTERIES THAT IMPACT OUR WORLD.

From this point on in Ms. Howard’s Social Studies class, you will be a detective trying to solve mysteries and events of the past. You will have to analyze clues and piece together a story. It is your job to report your findings back to Ms. Howard

6TH GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

What did you investigate last year?

What did you discover?

What big ideas did you learn?

WITH YOUR TABLE BUDDIES DISCUSS THE QUOTE BELOW.

“History is made on the backs of the broken”.

What does this quote mean? What comes to mind?

Next – Look at the pictures on the next slide and try to make connections between each picture and the quote above.

UNIT 1 AND UNIT 2FIRST GLOBAL AGE

(RENAISSANCE, REFORMATION AND EUROPEAN EXPLORATION)

Christopher Columbus

HERO or VILLAIN ??

-To some, he was an intrepid explorer, following his instincts to a New World.

-To others, he was a monster, a slave trader who unleashed the horrors of the conquest on unsuspecting natives

-Thief?-Motive?-Did he make friends with the native people he met?It was already common knowledge that Earth wasn’t flat!

UNIT 3 AND UNIT 4REVOLUTION!

Galileo Galilei

GENIUS or CRIMINAL??

Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician who played a major role in the scientific revolution during the Renaissance. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest scientists of all time.

Galileo was ordered to turn himself in to the Holy Office to begin trial for holding the belief that the Earth revolves around the Sun, which was deemed heretical by the Catholic Church.

-The belief was that the Earth was at the center of the universe

UNIT 3 AND UNIT 4IMPERIALISM AND WORLD WARS

Were these countries

VICTIMS

OR INSTIGATORS

of war?

Russia

France- trench warfare

Germany WWI flag

UNIT 5 AND UNIT 6THE WORLD AFTER WWII

WHAT PRICE, PEACE?

The Cold War1947-1991(still debated)

Korea1950-1953

Vietnam1955-1975

IndiaIndian Independence movement (Independence in 1947)

COPY QUESTIONS INTO YOUR NOTEBOOK: (LEAVE SPACE TO ANSWER EACH ONE!)

1. What trends (new styles or

directions) did you notice in the video?

2. What do you consider the most

impactful event or innovation (better

way of doing something) depicted in the

video?

HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 7 MINUTES

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pnmZalx9YY&feature=plcp

CHECKPOINT!

Do you have pages set aside in your notebook for a table of contents?

You should one entry! (It might look a little different depending on whether you had a notebook on day 1.

-Make sure you have an entry for today!

Topic: “Introduction to Social Studies and Themes of Geography”

Geography?

Geography is the study of places and the relationships between people and their environments.

Africa, Asia, Australia, p. 6

Review -5 Themes of Geography

Review -5 Themes of Geography

Location – Where do we live? How do we compare it to other places?

Place – Describe where you live. What characteristics do you use?

Human-Environment Interaction - How do we change our surroundings to our benefit? At what cost?

Movement – How did we get here? Why do people move?

Regions – What region do we live in? How do you know?

LOCATION The importance of one thing in relation to another. Relative location-location of place in relation to another Absolute location-expressed in degrees of longitude and latitude Ex. To identify a location, what continents or oceans are near it? (Relative)

Ex. Use latitude and longitude to identify an exact location (absolute)

PLACE

How one area is different from another, “Physical” or “Human” characteristics

Physical Characteristics: landforms, water forms, climate, soil, plant and animal life

Human Characteristics: amount people living in a certain place, how close together

they live, social traits, cultural traditions and political practices.

Ex. The climate of a rain forest is hot and rainy Ex. There are 3 million people live in Paris, France

HUMAN ENVIRONMENTAL INTERACTION

How people, use change and work with a place. Ex. Why is New York City a great seaport? Ex. Why is Buddhism a popular religion in Asia?

MOVEMENT

Explains how, people, goods, ideas move from place to place and change culture and the environment.

Ex. Marco Polo introduced pasta to Europeans, it came from Asia

Ex. The Spaniards introduced horses to Latin America Ex. In the late 1800s, thousands of Europeans immigrated (moved) to the United States

REGION

Common characteristics about an area.

Ex. What makes Hartford, Connecticut different from New York City?

Ex. Make comparisons to nearest neighbors, what makes the USA different from the Caribbean?

1. With your seatmate, determine which theme defines each picture in the next slide.

2. In one complete sentence, justify your choice for each picture.

Digital Notebook Entry

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ANSWER THIS QUESTION IN PREPARATION FOR OUR NEXT LESSON!

Does the environment have more impact on humans or do

humans have more impact on the environment?

SOURCES

http://www.yale.edu/macmillan/pier/classroom-resources/FiveThemesGeography.pdf