1. Aim: How do the Social Studies help us learn about the lives of people?
You are an archaeologist in the year You make an important discovery and find the following artifact.
Describe what you see in this “artifact”.
What conclusions can you draw about the people who used this artifact by looking at the artifact itself?

2. The Social Studies
1. Geography- The study of the physical features of the earth and of human activity as it affects and is affected by these

3. 2. History- a branch of knowledge that records and explains past events

4. 3. Economics- a social science that deals with the production, distribution, and consumption of resources, goods and services

5. 4. Anthropology-the study of early human beings and their descendants through time

6. 5. Archaeology- the scientific study of material remains (fossils, artifacts) of past human life and activities

7. Primary vs. Secondary sources
What is a primary source?
Original documents or first-hand accounts of an event

8. What is a secondary source?
Primary vs. Secondary sources
What is a secondary source?
an account or summary of a historical event not based on direct observation

9. Why do we see different things in the pictures?
What is perspective? What is bias?

10. Perspective
the state of one's ideas; the way one sees things, your Point of View
How Does Perspective Influence the documentation of History?

11. Political? Economic? Social?

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