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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| Language: | en |
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1977
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED141248 |
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- Teaching Social Studies Skills. Long, Jerry C., Ed. Data Analysis Evaluative Thinking Graphs Interdisciplinary Approach Learning Activities Map Skills Secondary Education Skill Development Skills Social Sciences Social Studies Suggestions and learning activities to help secondary students learn social studies skills are contained in this document. Social studies skills make it possible for the learner to employ those intellectual processes necessary in obtaining or handling knowledge. Five selected skill development areas are discussed; each area contains a number of learning activities to implement the strategy. The five skill areas include: (1) evaluating sources, discerning between fact and opinion, and understanding the differences between primary and secondary sources; (2) finding information through library skills and oral interviews; (3) classifying data using charts and graphs; (4) developing map skills; and (5) understanding time concepts. (Author/JR)