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:
- Use cardinal directions to identify relative locations on simple maps (e.g., the school is north of the park)
- Interpret symbols and legends on maps to identify given locations in the community (e.g., schools, roads, railways, playgrounds, museums)
- Create simple maps of familiar locations (e.g., the school and grounds)
- Use simple graphic organizers (e.g., charts, webs) to record relevant information from selected sources
- Draw simple interpretations from personal experiences, oral sources, and visual and written representations
- Use selected communication forms (e.g., presentation software, models, maps, oral, written) to accomplish given presentation tasks
- Ask relevant questions to clarify a classroom or school problem
- Brainstorm and compare a variety of responses to a given classroom or school problem
- Describe ways to choose a response to a problem (e.g., voting or majority rule, consensus, authority rule)
- Predict the possible results of various solutions to a problem
- Demonstrate willingness to consider diverse points of view
keywords
Use Social Studies inquiry processes and skills to ask questions; gather, interpret, and analyze ideas; and communicate findings and decisions