Social Studies Skills

Social Studies Skills

Lesson 5

Multiple Choice

What are critical thinking skills for?

• help you gain greater insights for all subjects, including social studies, by how you approach and understand

• to help you pass a test

• to help you in science and math

• it does not help you approach or understand any subject, especially social studies and language arts

Sequencing

• placed in the order in which they occur, or sequential order
  

• helps you put events from beginning to end
  

• clue words like before, after, next, last
  

Multiple Choice

What does it mean to categorize?

• using a table or graph

• sort facts, events, people, or other items into groups with similar traits

• label facts as "important" or "not important"

• comparing facts to other facts

Identifying Cause and Effect Relationships

• causes—actions that lead to an event

• effects—the results of an action

• Examples are so, because, as a result, therefore, produced, and for the following reasons.

Comparing and Contrasting

• analyzing two or more ideas, objects, or events

• Signal words like similar and also tell you to compare

• phrases however and on the other hand, you should contrast

Finding Main Idea and Summarizing

• central focus of the text
  

• what is most important, less important
  

• Summarizing is restating a large amount of information in a few words.

• most important information

• remember the main points or events in a text

Poll

Which do you think would be a generalization? Select all that apply.

• Everyone likes pizza.

• All people have technology at home.

• Dogs are smarter than cats.

• Boys are better than girls at sports.

Making Generalizations and Predictions

• A statement is mostly, or generally, true
  

• Somewhat based on facts
  

• Also based on prior knowledge or experience
  

• Predicting involves using clues from a text to make reasoned guesses about what will happen next- finding the pattern
  

Reports and Presentations

• Plagiarism is copying someone else’s words
  

• This includes using someone else’s sentence structures, even if you change the important words.

• Must give them credit using citations,  or a bibliography (MLA, APA)
  

• Attribution- giving credit with a direct "quotation"
  

Multiple Choice

Why do you need to give credit to someone that you get information from?

• Because my teacher told me to.

• Because they are an expert.

• Because it is dishonest and is considered stealing.

• It is not a crime to take someone else's information as my own.

Multiple Select

Which are the steps to solving a problem? Select all that apply.

• gather information about your options

• identify your options

• use your findings to make a decision

• identify what you need to do

• predict the consequences

Steps to Solving a Problem

• 1. Identify what you need to do.
  

• 2. Identify your options.
  

• 3. Gather information about your options.
  

• 4. Predict consequences- "pros vs cons" chart
  

• 5. Use findings and make a decision.
  

Multiple Choice

What is your best option about choosing which pair of shoes to buy?

• make a generalization

• make a "pros vs cons" chart

• include a citation

• identify the cause and effect