1. AGENDA
SOCIAL STUDIES

2. TABLE OF CONTENTS- Units 1 and 2
Unit 1 and 2 Standards
Warm Up 8/1/19
Unit 1 and 2 Notebook Setup
Global Scavenger Hunt
Five Strands of Social Studies notes.
AC Snapshots Assignment

3. August 6
Warm Up
Conclude The 5 Strands of Geography
Closure

4. Warm Up 8/6/19 Political Cartoon Analysis- Write the answers only.
What issue or event does the cartoon deal with?
Describe the action taking place in the cartoon.
What is the cartoon’s message?

5. Warm Up 8/6/19 AC Political Cartoon Analysis- Write the answers only.
What issue or event does the cartoon deal with?
Describe the action taking place in the cartoon.
What is the cartoon’s message?

7. What is Social Studies?
The study of how people over time have interacted with each other and their environment in order to live.

8. It includes five different areas (strands):
Geography
Culture
History
Government
Economics

9. Geography is the study of people, places and the environment.

10. There two types of geography:
Physical Geography – the study of land forms
Cultural Geography - the study of people

11. We use different types of maps to study geography, including:
Physical Maps – show land features like mountains and rivers.
Political Maps – show human borders such as countries and states.
Population Distribution Maps – show where large groups of people live.
Resource Maps – show which raw materials can be found in a particular area.

12. Political Map Your Turn
What kind of map would show the border between the United States and Canada?
Political Map

13. History is a record of the past.

14. History includes the study of:
Events that have changed the way people live
People who have changed society

15. We learn about history by studying two different kinds of sources:
Primary Sources– documents or objects from the actual time period
Secondary Sources – documents or objects that interpret or analyze primary sources

16. Your Turn S P P S S P P S ____ biography ____ photograph
Mark each of these examples with a P or an S to indicate the type of source.
____ biography
____ photograph
____ interview
____ textbook
____ movie
____ autobiography
____ diary entry
____ TV show S P P S S P P S

17. Culture
Culture is the beliefs, customs, laws, art, and ways of living that a group of people share.

18. Culture deals with the everyday lives of people.
What kind of food do you eat?
What language do you speak?
What religion do you follow?

19. Your Turn
List four more examples of culture:

20. Government
Government refers to the people in society who make laws, enforce the laws, and settle disagreements about them.

21. We focus on two different government models in 7th grade
Citizen participation – describes how much control people have over their own government and what kind freedoms they have.
Power Distribution - describes how the government is organized. Does it concentrates power in one place or share it?

22. The main types of citizen participation are:
Autocratic – one person rules
Democratic – the people rule

23. Your Turn
What type of citizen participation does the United States use?
Democratic

24. Economics
Economics is how people manage their resources by producing, exchanging, and using goods and services.

25. All societies benefit from trade, the voluntary exchange of goods and services.

26. Goods and services are produced using the three basic types of resources:
Natural Resources – raw material from nature
Human Capital – labor done by people
Capital Goods – tools, factories, technology and land

27. Your Turn List one example of each type of productive resource.
Natural Resources:
Human Capital:
Capital Goods: