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:
- Select a relevant problem or issue for inquiry.
- Use comparison, classification, inference, imagination, verification, and analogy to clarify and define a problem or issue.
- Compare the advantages and disadvantages of various graphic forms of communication (e.g., graphs, tables, charts, maps, photographs, sketches).
- Demonstrate an ability to interpret scales and legends in graphs, tables, and maps (e.g., climograph, topographical map, pie chart).
- Compare maps of early civilizations with modern maps of the same area.
- Select an appropriate graphic form of communication for a specific purpose (e.g., a timeline to show a sequence of events, a map to show location).
- Represent information fairly and cite sources consistently.
- Select appropriate forms of presentation suitable for the purpose and audience (e.g., multimedia, oral presentation, song, dramatic performance, written presentation).
- Demonstrate debating skills, including identifying, discussing, defining, and clarifying a problem, issue, or inquiry.
keywords
Use Social Studies inquiry processes and skills to ask questions; gather, interpret, and analyze ideas; and communicate findings and decisions