Exam 3: How Are Social Studies Inquiry Skills Learned

Which of the following would be the most appropriate expansion activity in a lesson focusing on making inferences about life in New Orleans in the 1830s?

Reflecting on the use of skills is profitable at the end of an inquiry lesson but not profitable to do during the lesson.

Ms. Lopez, a fourth-grade teacher was working to help her students develop their problem- solving ability. Which of the following was a component that she had to help them learn if they were to become better problem solvers?

Skills require large amounts of practice to learn but once learned will be maintained.

When doing a predictive study, students might ask a question such as:

One of the first steps in decision making is clearly defining the problem.

It is possible to teach all of the social studies skills in the lower grades so that middle school teachers and high school teachers can concentrate on teaching only social studies knowledge.

The most important skills used in teaching social studies lessons are the making of maps and timelines.

"When there are no rules for a game, people will start arguing because they can't agree on what to do." This statement is an example of an:

Asking questions throughout an inquiry lesson is an important way to encourage students in developing their cognitive skills.

Making a database on a computer is an example of a data-gathering skills that elementary students might be taught.

Once we have gathered some data by observing, measuring, and questioning, our next step is to:

Problem solving involves identifying a problem and taking action to solve it.

Making a generalization or conclusion is an easier intellectual skill than describing or explaining what was observed or read.

"My pencil is not on my desk, so somebody took it!" This statement is an:

One difference in learning cycles that teach a social studies skill is the optional nature of the exploratory introduction phase.

Which of the following data-gathering skills might best be used in a project that involves a class of fourth-graders in determining the average amount of trash their family disposes of each week?

Given that inquiry skills all have several stages of development, which of the following is the most appropriate statement concerning teaching skills?

What data-organizing skill is being used when students take data gathered about the weekly allowances of their classmates and tally it by how many students receive each of the following allowances: seventy-five cents, one dollar, one dollar and fifty cents, two dollars?

Investigating focuses on learning about a problem and reporting what you have learned.