EDUC Social Studies Exam 2

Why do we study history in school?

By studying history children can be inspired to act more responsibly, study harder, and even care more about their fellow humans.

Which of the following adequately distinguishes historical thinking and historical understanding?

a. Historical understanding supports the development of historical thinking.

b. Historical thinking supports the development of historical understanding.

c. Historical thinking and understanding are both based in facts.

d. Historical thinking and understanding are both based on inferences.

b

Which of the following is not a skill in history?

a. comprehension

b. savvy

c. judgment

d. awareness

b

The figure is an example of a __________________, an important pedagogical tool for social studies teachers.

(similar image, but timeline with a couple pics)

timeline

What can students understand about history from this picture? What is this kind of understanding called.

Students can understand how immigration has influenced the development of culture in the United States. This type of understanding is called active learning.

What are the processes in Hicks, Doolittle, and Ewing’s SCIM-C method?

1) summarize

2) contextualize

3) infer

4) corroborate

5) monitor

What are the defining characteristics of a historical story?

introduce characters, beginning events, middle events, and ending events

When do children begin to develop knowledge of the past?

a. as toddlers

b. as early as first or second grade

c. in middle school

d. in high school

b

Describe the relationships between these three types of learning activities in history.

a. transmission activities

b. active learning activities

c. activities involving authentic historical resoruces

Transmission activities provide the background knowledge needed for active learning activities, which should make use of authentic resources

What makes an historical resource authentic? What makes this resource authentic? (Old document writing on yellow brown paper)

Authentic resources are from the time being studied and have a meaningful and real world quality that is easy for children to understand and relate to. The image of the Emancipation Proclamation is authentic because it has a real meaning today and, as an image of the original, has a real look to it.