1. Social Studies Skills Tutor
An excellent guide to opening the mind!

2. The skills Tutor can be found at:
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At this point I would go into the tutor and show some of it’s great aspects and activities that it has for students.

3. What is it good for?
There are no specific outcomes that I could think to go along with the Social Studies Skills Tutor, but I am sure some general outcomes could be made to fit.
What the Social Studies Skills Tutor is good for is teaching social studies “skills” which almost all social studies curriculums mention, and advise you use in your classroom, but they are never made a specific outcome.
The Law 120 curriculum document actually has a list of social studies skills that, I think, all students should be practicing in all their classrooms, and that is why I like this Tutor activity.

4. Some Social Studies skills which the Social Studies Skills Tutor covers.
Read critically
detect bias in historical accounts
distinguish fact from fiction
detect cause and effect relationships
detect bias in visual material

5. Express and support a point of view
form opinion based on critical examination of relevant material
restate major ideas of a complex topic in concise form
Solve problems creatively and critically
identify a situation in which a decision is required
secure needed factual information relevant to making the decision
recognize the values implicit in the situation and the issues that flow from them
identify alternative courses of action and predict likely consequences of each
make decision based on data obtained; select an appropriate strategy to solve a problem

6. Gather, record, evaluate, and synthesize information
interpret history through artefacts
use sources of information in the community
use map and globe reading skills
interpret pictures, charts, graphs, photographs, tables and other visuals
distinguish between primary and secondary sources
identify the limitations of primary and secondary sources
detect bias in primary and secondary sources

7. And many many more!!

8. Resources http://www.phschool.com/home.html
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