1. Social Studies 101

2. YOU are a historian!

3. What are the five strands of Social Studies?
History
Geography
Cultural
Economic
Government

4. Create Foldable

5. History
Definition: The record and description of past events.

6. Why is it important to study HISTORY?
As we watch the video clip. Remember 2 reasons it is important to study history.

7. How do I study history like a historian?

8. Timelines

9. So what are we going to learn?
400
0 A.D.
200
600
800
1000
1200
1400
1600
1800
2000
2015

10. YOUR timeline Fill out your life timeline.
Label your timeline by adding years beginning with your year of birth and ending will 2016.
Pick 3 big events in your life to add to your timeline.
Remember the oldest events should be towards the left and newest on the right
Make sure you have a date and description of each event.

11. How do we KNOW what happened?
Types of SOURCES
Primary- A primary source is written or created by someone who experienced events at the time they took place.
Good things? Bad things?
Examples:
Secondary- A secondary source is written by a person or group of people who did not witness an event.

12. JFK Assassination
Follow along as we read about the life of John F. Kennedy (JFK)
Work with your groups to sort each item as a PRIMARY or SECONDARY source about President Kennedy’s assassination.
Place the PRIMARY sources on the BLUE paper and the SECONDARY sources on the RED paper

13. One more piece of evidence…

14. Reflection
Why is it important for us to study history using timelines and multiple types of sources?
Question everything this year!

15. Geography Definition: science that deals with
the Earth's surface and how humans
interact with the world around them.

16. Why is geography important to studying Social Studies like a historian?

17. Compass rose
Draw your own
compass rose in
your foldable.

18. What do we use to study geography?
Maps
What are the benefits of maps?
Globes
What are the benefits of globes?
Google earth tour 

19. Continents Glue your map into your foldable

21. Latitude and longitude
Label the Equator and Prime Meridian on your map

23. What about us? How do WE relate to geography?
Push/ Pull Country Activity

24. Add to your foldable: Push and Pull factors
Pull factor- something that draws people to a new location.
Example:
Push factor- something that drives people away from a location.

25. Human environment interaction

26. Culture
Definition: the combination of human knowledge, beliefs and behavior that we learn and pass on to future generations.

27. Food around the world
Iraq
China
Canada
Italy
Greece
Belize
Vietnam

28. Music around the world
Mexico -
USA –
China -
Germany -
Argentina -

29. One event we see lots of culture

30. Weddings around the world
Each group will learn about the culture of weddings from another country.
Read your wedding description
Answer the discussion questions with your group

31. What kind of things make up someone’s culture?
Decorate your foldable with your culture
Things to include
Music
Food
Family
Holidays
Traditions
Free time activities
sports
School
Books
__________

32. Government
Definition: The process and or the group of people who control and make decisions for a country, state, etc

33. Why do we have government?
Group brainstorm

34. White board think and share
Each of you need a white board, a dry erase marker, and an eraser
For 1 min I want you to think of what elements make a Good government. *remember WHY we decided we needed government*
Write at least 5 things on your white board

35. Now you have 2 minutes to discuss your ideas with a partner
Now you have 2 minutes to discuss your ideas with a partner. Narrow down your pair’s 10 ideas to 5.
Combine your best 5 answers to ONE white board
(erase the other)

36. Now you have 3 minutes to discuss with your whole table.
As a group decide on 3 things that make a GOOD government.
Combine your 3 items on ONE dry erase board.
Erase all other and stack them in the center of your group.

37. Lets share

38. Types of governments
As we discuss each kind, you decide which one seems like it would be the MOST effective.
Copy each description into your foldable
Work with your group to display a gummy bear picture of each type of government.

39. MONARCHY Monarchy- A monarchy has a king or queen.
In some traditional monarchies, the monarch has absolute power.
But a constitutional monarchy, like the UK, also has a democratic government that limits the monarch's control.

40. DEMOCRACY
Democracy- In a democracy, the government is elected by the people.
Everyone who is eligible to vote has a chance to have their say over who runs the country.

41. COMMUNISM
Communism- In a communist country, the government owns things like businesses and farms.
It provides its people's healthcare, education and welfare.

42. DICTATORSHIP Dictatorship- This is a country ruled by a single leader.
The leader has not been elected and may use force to keep control.
In a military dictatorship, the army is in control.

43. ANARCHY Anarchy- a situation where there is no government.
This can happen after a civil war in a country, when a government has been destroyed and rival groups are fighting to take its place.
Anarchists are people who believe that government is a bad thing. They say it stops people organising their own lives.

44. Exit ticket
Based on our research which government do YOU think would work BEST in society?

45. Economics
Definition: a science that deals with the making, distributing, selling and purchasing of goods and services.

46. Businesses Households (us)
PEOPLE (us) determine what businesses make and how much of it
PEOPLE (us) spend money to buy goods/services from businesses.
Businesses charge US more depending on how much it cost them (rent, wages, taxes)
Businesses
Households (us)
Businesses makes goods and services for US

47. POLITICAL CARTOONS

48. What is a political cartoon?
Class discussion
Definition:
: A political cartoon is a drawing or comic strip containing a political or social message portraying persons, things, political events or situations, etc., in an exaggerated way.

49. Explanation
A political cartoon is a type of drawing used to present opinions, comments, or criticisms of a situation, person, or event. Cartoons help us understand information by presenting it in a visual and memorable way. Cartoonists use many different techniques to achieve their goals:
Caricature - exaggerating one or more physical features - a large mouth to show someone who often speaks out on an issue. Symbols - using a recognizable item to communicate an idea - an elephant to represent the Republican Party.
Caption - having the characters speak or summarizing the message in a few words above or below the cartoon.

50. Model for Interpretation
List the objects or people that you see in the cartoon.
Which objects/people are symbols? What do you think each one means?
Are there any important clues (words, places, numbers) in the cartoon?
Describe what is happening in the four quadrants of the cartoon.
What is the political or social issue presented in the cartoon?
What is the cartoonist’s viewpoint on this issue? How do you know?
Who might agree/disagree with the cartoon? Why?

54. How to make your own political cartoon:
Worksheet
Students add to the existing cartoon then compare to what the original artist created

56. Think like a Historian.