Bell Work Question: What four subjects do we learn about in social studies?
Learning Goals: Today we reinforced the learning from yesterday; we reviewed the subjects we study in social studies and the reasons why we study them. We also learned vocabulary terms which historians use to describe time according to the Western or Gregorian calendar.
Colorado State Standards: N/A
Lesson Overview: We started with the students walking around the classroom, exchanging slips of paper with the different subjects that social studies teaches. They then moved to four corners of the room labeled history, geography, civics, and economics based on what their slips of paper said.
Later, the students watched a presentation that reviewed the abbreviations and vocabulary used by historians to describe the place of events in time. The students took notes on notebook paper.
Follow Up: We will be having a quiz on the vocabulary of time on 09/02/2015.
Family Discussion Topics: Did you know that the abbreviation, A.D. doesn't stand for "After Death" as many people have been taught? It actually stands for the Latin phrase, "anno Domini." This means "in the year of our Lord." It covers all of the time since Christ's birth according to the Greek monk, Dionysius Exiquus, some 2,015 years ago. Can we trust everything that our parents and teachers have taught us without question? What should we do when we find out something we've been taught is wrong?
Learning Goals: Today we reinforced the learning from yesterday; we reviewed the subjects we study in social studies and the reasons why we study them. We also learned vocabulary terms which historians use to describe time according to the Western or Gregorian calendar.
Colorado State Standards: N/A
Lesson Overview: We started with the students walking around the classroom, exchanging slips of paper with the different subjects that social studies teaches. They then moved to four corners of the room labeled history, geography, civics, and economics based on what their slips of paper said.
Later, the students watched a presentation that reviewed the abbreviations and vocabulary used by historians to describe the place of events in time. The students took notes on notebook paper.
Follow Up: We will be having a quiz on the vocabulary of time on 09/02/2015.
Family Discussion Topics: Did you know that the abbreviation, A.D. doesn't stand for "After Death" as many people have been taught? It actually stands for the Latin phrase, "anno Domini." This means "in the year of our Lord." It covers all of the time since Christ's birth according to the Greek monk, Dionysius Exiquus, some 2,015 years ago. Can we trust everything that our parents and teachers have taught us without question? What should we do when we find out something we've been taught is wrong?
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Time Talk Understanding the Language of History 1B1 |