Exam 1: What Is Powerful and Meaningful Social Studies

Meaningful social studies learning require a cooperative and supportive classroom climate rather than a restrictive atmosphere based on a fear of failure.

Teachers must carefully plan and assess lessons in order to provide the experiences that result in meaningful learning.

Which of the following is a "tool" that assists in an investigation of a social studies question?

Being active, participatory citizens requires students to ask questions, determine answers based upon information, and act to bring about changes in their everyday world.

The National Council for the Social Studies has defined powerful social studies as:

As students gather more information through their life experiences, they construct and redefine the patterns they see in the social world.

The primary purpose of social studies is to help young people develop the ability to make informed and reasoned decisions for the public good as citizens of a culturally diverse, democratic society in an interdependent world.

Social studies is:

Social studies is a personal construction of the meaning of information interpreted through the student's prior knowledge of the social world.

Students prefer teaching strategies where they listen and review what they have heard in written exercises and tests.

Researchers report that students want social studies instruction to use:

The content of a powerful social studies lesson is:

Social studies has been called "the great connection" by Goodman and Alder (1985) because they see social studies functioning as: