1. What is Social Studies
Aim : What do we mean by the term “Social Sciences” and how do the different disciplines come together?
1) Do Now : Make a web with social studies terms
2) The different branches of social studies
3) How these different branches come together
4) Reading together in class and get in groups to come up with bullet points for history.

2. Do Now: Draw this map and put the first word that comes to your mind when you hear each branch of social studies

3. Meme of the day

4. Social Studies
Social Studies - Is the study of the relationship between many disciplines

5. Social Sciences
History, geography, economics, political science, archaeology, anthropology, religion, and culture

6. History What is history? (“his-tory”-different perspectives on…)
is the story of humanity’s past
records and explains what people have thought, said and done

7. Pre-history: before written records
What is the difference between history and pre-history?
Pre-history: before written records
History: written records and documentation

8. Social Scientists
Anthropologists
Archeologists
Study of human beings and their ancestors through time. How humans lived, worked, farmed, and interacted hundreds or thousands of years ago.
The study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains.

9. How can geography be important to the study of history? Geography
to study the interaction of people and the environment
movement of people, goods and ideas
location: ABSOLUTE- latitude and longitude and RELATIVE – to other countries; regions and places
ITALY
Absolute: Rome, Italy is: (Latitude)= N (Longitude)= E
Relative: Italy is south of Germany, east of France, west of Hungry, and north of Africa. Italy is also in the Northern Hemisphere, it is also in Europe.

10. Why do you think it is important to understand how economics is relative to history?
it is the study of the needs and wants of a society; how scarcity of resources impacts societies
factors of production: land, labor, and (capital= money used to create goods and services
Economist decides: What to produce? How to produce? For whom to produce?

11. Three Types of Economies
Traditional economy: based on traditions and linked to environment – goods and services are excchanged
 Don’t copy/just read
traditional economy is an original economic system in which traditions, customs, and beliefs shape the goods and the services the economy produces, as well as the rules and manner of their distribution. Countries that use this type of economic system are often rural and farm-based.

12. Economics - branch of knowledge concerned with the production, consumption, and transfer of wealth.
Market economy: individual consumers and producers make decisions about exchange and factors of production
Command economy: the government commands/ makes decisions about the exchange and factors of production

13. Political Science How is political science relative to history?
it deals with power, authority and legal systems
Political Systems
Theocracy- Theo = Relating to religion
Monarchy- Monarch
Oligarchy- (olígos), meaning "few"
Democracy-Demos = the people

14. Group Activity
On a sheet of paper, create a chart with the following three columns:
“Elements of Culture,”
“Cultural Groups”
“Importance of Culture.”

15. Human behaviors Culture Religion
socially transmitted beliefs, values, institutions, behaviors, traditions and way of life of a group of people.
Food
Language
Music
Art
Artifacts
Unified system of beliefs and practices
life and the world relative to the supernatural
unite the believers or followers into a social organization or moral community.
Directly influences and is part of culture

16. Social Sciences Sociology Psychology Philosophy
Is the study of human society at a given period in time.
focuses on social relationships.
study of problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, values, & reason.
relations to the world and each other.
explore behavior and mental processes of individuals.
What people consciously do and unconsciously do.

17. What is a primary source?
Primary source - informational source from the time of an event
Autobiographies
Diaries
Documents
Eyewitness accounts
Laws
Letters
Newspaper articles
Speeches
Artifacts
Oral histories
Photographs
Film footage
Art
Music

18. What are Secondary Sources?
Secondary source - informational source that analyzes the event.
This is someone else’s interpretation of an event, not a first person account.
Examples
Biographies
Encyclopedias
History books
Textbooks