Process Skills In Social Studies Flashcards
Give some other things about process skills
- how do we analyze primary sources
Ex. Reading diaries / interviews
- how do utilize secondary sources
Ex. Journal articles / encyclopedia articles
- How do we look at political cartoons
- Almanacs
- Maps
Ex. Latitude and longitude to locate
What are process skills?
Allow us to perform research, to formulate new ideas, and to analyze and discuss existing ideas
What is cause and effect in history?
How does one event in history relate to another later on
Process skills also identify _________ ?
Themes
** commonalities in the way humans used to behave vs. Now
—- how will they continue to behave
Process skills are a set of?
Set of skills and abilities that we need to analyze and understand social study topics
How might I be asked to use process skills on the test?
- reading maps
- analyzing timelines
Ex. Identify themes / make interpretation based on timeline
- identifying the key ideas
- historical significance of written excerpts
When you encounter process skill questions I should draw on?
Knowledge of specific topics
- but also consider the general theme of history / social science
- use deductive reasoning
Explain people’s thoughts on government when people are wealthy vs. When people are poor
When wealthy support government
When poor and mistreated - rebel and fight against government
When unsure about certain passages, what should you do?
Draw off of the knowledge you do know and compare
- Similarities occur in humans
- think about general theme in history