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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:
- With teacher and peer support, select a relevant problem or issue for inquiry
- Use comparing, classifying, inferring, imagining, verifying, identifying relationships, and summarizing to clarify and define a problem or issue
- Draw conclusions about a problem or issue
- Locate and map continents, oceans, and seas using simple grids, scales, and legends
- Locate the prime meridian, equator, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, Arctic Circle, and Antarctic Circle on a globe or map of the world
- Recognize the relationship between time zones and lines of longitude
- Compare how graphs, tables, aerial photos, and maps represent information
- Represent the same information in two or more graphic forms (e.g., graphs, tables, thematic maps)
- Clarify a topic for presentation
- Collect and organize information on a topic of your choice (e.g., a selected country)
- Draw conclusions from collected information
- Plan, prepare, and deliver a presentation on a selected topic (e.g., a country of their choice)
- Prepare a bibliography, using a consistent style to cite books, magazines, interviews, web sites, and other sources used
- Select ways to clarify a specific problem or issue (e.g., discussion, debate, research)
- Defend a position on a national or global issue
- Collect and organize information to support a course of action
- Identify opportunities for civic participation at the school, community, provincial, national, and global levels
- Individually, or in groups, implement a plan of action to address a problem or issue (e.g., fundraising campaign, clothing or food drive, letter writing to a politician, editorial in the school or community newspaper, petition)
keywords
Use Social Studies inquiry processes and skills to — ask questions; gather, interpret, and analyze ideas; and communicate findings and decisions