Subject
Grade
Curricular Competency
Use Social Studies inquiry processes and skills to ask questions; gather, interpret, and analyze ideas; and communicate findings and decisions
Elaboration
- Key skills:
- Compare information and viewpoints about a selected problem or issue
- Identify patterns in information, and use those patterns to draw inferences
- Summarize information and opinions about a selected problem or issue
- Use grids, scales, and legends on maps and timelines to interpret or represent specific information
- Translate information from maps to other forms of communication and vice versa (e.g., write a paragraph describing what you see in a map, create a map based on an image or oral description)
- Give reasons for using more than one source of information (e.g., differing points of view, currency of information, level of detail, reliability)
- Apply a variety of strategies for information gathering (e.g., headings, indices, Internet searches)
- Apply strategies for note taking and organizing information gathered from a variety of information sources
- Distinguish between primary and secondary sources
- Construct a simple bibliography
- Organize information to plan a presentation
- Prepare a presentation using selected communication forms (e.g., debate, diorama, multimedia presentation, dance) to support the purpose of the presentation
- Apply established criteria for a presentation (e.g., historical accuracy and context)
- Identify problems or issues that are local, national, and/or global in focus (e.g., natural disasters, endangered species, poverty, disease)
- Clarify a selected problem or issue (e.g., provide details; state reasons, implications)
- Create a plan of action to address a chosen problem or issue
keywords
Use Social Studies inquiry processes and skills to ask questions; gather, interpret, and analyze ideas; and communicate findings and decisions