Transcript: Social Studies 5 (1 of 2): Course Introduction

Course Objectives

• Find information from different sources to ask and answer compelling and support questions.
• Solve problems and make decisions while finding a problem, collecting evidence, and sharing a solution.
• Figure out which sources are helpful for learning about a topic. 
• Build and share arguments and explanations using claims and evidence from different sources.
• Examine the important people, ideas, and events from the American Revolution.
• Learn about the United States Constitution and the three branches of government.
• Read, arrange, and explain events using graphs, charts, and timelines.
• Identify different opinions about a problem, subject, historical event, or current event.
• Study information by putting things in order, grouping them, finding causes and effects, comparing, summarizing, making predictions, and drawing conclusions.
• Compare what national, state, and local governments are responsible for.
• Explain the challenges people have faced and what they did to fix them.
• Use different sources to develop and share claims about causes and effects of events.
• Study important documents, objects, and places in United States history.
• Describe how human or natural activities in one place can affect what happens in other places.
• Use social studies words correctly.
• Compare information from different sources about events and changes in the United States.

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