1. Warm Up What is Social Studies?
What is social studies used for in everyday life?

2. Why are we learning about this?
Social Studies in Everyday Life

3. To have practical skills such reading a map or chart

4. To be a good citizen of your state, country, and world!

5. Future Careers
(Politics, Law, Archaeology, Psychology, History, Business, Science, etc…)

6. To better understand world events

7. Relating to other cultures

8. To learn from historic mistakes and be inspired by historic successes

9. To understand the physical earth
How it affects our lives and how we interact with it

10. It puts all other academic disciplines together in the real world
Math, science, reading, writing, etc….

11. Think, Pair, Share Pair up with your partner.
Scenario: You are stranded in Houston without a phone. You are trying to get home and there is nobody around that is able to help give you directions.
What can you find out from learning social studies and applying it to this situation?

12. Exit Ticket
Under your warm up, write 3 reasons we should learn social studies.
How do these reasons apply to everyday life?