SOCIAL STUDIES Q What is social studies What

• V. geography • MI: The study of geography focuses on 5 themes:

• V: Government is the people and groups within a society that have

• V. Citizen • A citizen is a legal member of a country

• V. Economics • Economics is the study of people managing their resources.

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SOCIAL STUDIES • Q: What is social studies? • What are the five fields of learning? § A: Social studies includes information from five fields of learning to provides a well rounded picture of the world and its people. § Geography, History, Culture, Economics, and Government. § V: History is a record of the past. • V: History: • Main Idea: Historians search for primary sources such as newspapers, letters, and other documents to find out about past events. § Elaboration sentence: People search for pieces of information to help keep us informed about the past.

• V. geography • MI: The study of geography focuses on 5 themes: Location, region, place, movement and human environmentinteraction. • V : Geography is the study of people places, and environment. • 1 Where it is at? • 2 multiple places with similar qualities. • 3 similar qualities. • 4 When something is moving from place to place. • 5 Someone cuts or touches a plant, tree, dirt, or something in nature.

• V: Government is the people and groups within a society that have the authority to make laws, to make sure they are carried out and to settle disagreements about them. • MI: Every country has laws and ways to govern itself. ES: A country makes laws to control itself. • V: Totalitarian government • Q: Limited vs Unlimited V: Totalitarian government- one person in control Limited: Not one person has too much control Unlimited: leader has all of the control

• V. Citizen • A citizen is a legal member of a country • V: Culture • Culture consists of the beliefs, customs, laws, art and ways of living that a group of people share. • V: Culture Trait • MI: Taken together, the culture traits of a people shape their ways of life • Each kind of food, clothing, or technology, each belief language or tool shared by a culture. • ES:

• V. Economics • Economics is the study of people managing their resources. • V: Scarcity • The conflict between people’s desires and their limited resources • MI: Economics is about choice • You have the choice to buy what you want if you can afford it.