The 5 Themes of Social Studies

1. The 5 Themes of Social Studies Miss Simo Class

2. Image Bibliography • http://www.hcbe.net/schools/HMS/teachers/champions/images/904C7C78CCB14BEA9A64F517686B6B08.gif • http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/08/28/september11_wideweb__430x287.jpg • www.crossingwallstreet.com/archives/2005/09/ • http://z.about.com/d/ancienthistory/1/0/Q/Q/2/RosettaStone.jpg • http://egypt100.net/joomla/images/stories/Egypt1_Great_Pyramids.jpg • http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~catshaman/0inanna/hamstel.JPG • http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/1582/atombombsf4.jpg • http://www.ecu.edu/english/tcr/26-4/herodotus.jpe • http://podserve.biggu.com/podcast/coverart/394/Government.jpg • http://www.bush2004.com/images/bush_via_the_daily_mirror.jpg • http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/images/hitler1.jpg • http://www.thepalmbeachtimes.com/Pictures%20folder/Pictures/Saddam-Hussein-01.jpg • http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Dick_Cheney.jpg/474px-Dick_Cheney.jpg • http://www.fairfield.k12.ct.us/tomlinson/ctomlinson02/globe_.gif • http://ndn.newsweek.com/media/25/71014_MoneyHappiness_vl-vertical.jpg • http://images.appleinsider.com/ipod-06-1.gif • http://images.teamsugar.com/files/usr/1/13254/jimmy-dean-pancake-sausage-chocolate-chip-736804.0.jpg • http://freecentre.co.uk/Documents/consoles.png • http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/crmlu/2006/crmlu060526.gif • http://webs.lanset.com/aeolusaero/Articles/New_American_Gothic.JPG • http://www.freshsqueezedmarketing.com/freshsqueeze/MD_FamilyHouse.jpg

3. History • Is a record of the past (which orients you in time and space, when and where)

4. History • Study of how events in the past have shaped us today

5. History • Uses primary information (1st hand accounts)

6. History • Can use remains of civilization

7. Geography • This is the study of people, places, and the environment

8. Government • This is the people and groups within a society that has the power to make laws, enforce laws, and settle disagreements about laws

9. Government • Example 1: a limited government where EVERYONE must obey laws (Democracy) ?

10. Government • Example 2: an unlimited government the rulers can do whatever they wish (Dictatorship)

11. Economics • This is the study of how people manage resources by producing, exchanging, and using goods and services (all about $)

12. Economics • This is the study of how people manage resources by producing, exchanging, and using goods and services (all about $)

13. Economics • This is the study of how people manage resources by producing, exchanging, and using goods and services (all about $)

14. Economics • Example 1: Command Economy is where the government decides what is made and its price

15. Economics • Example 2: Market Economy is where businesses and consumers decide based upon what is actually bought

16. Culture • This consists of the beliefs, customs, laws, arts, and ways of living that a group of people share

17. Culture • This consists of the beliefs, customs, laws, arts, and ways of living that a group of people share

18. Culture • This consists of the beliefs, customs, laws, arts, and ways of living that a group of people share

19. Culture • Cultural trait: each kind of food clothing, technology, belief, language, or tool shared by a culture