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Assessment - Guided Discussion Questions: Integrating Social Studies
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- Describe a time when you worked well in your group? What did you do that made it work well?
- Tell me about a new thought or new concept that you learned during this study.
- What do you think about ____? How did you come to that conclusion?
- Why do you think _____? Support your answer.
- On a map, identify/label _______.
- Submit a written piece that uses information from at least 2 sources. Cite your sources.
- How did ____ solve his problem? How would you have done this differently?
- Identify and describe a problem that you considered and solved.
- How is your family/group/community/country the same/different from this family/group/community/country?
- Identify and describe a custom or holiday that is unique to this culture/time period.
- What social groups did you notice? Who belongs to each of these groups? How are they organized? Who is in charge? How did they get in charge? How do they stay in charge?
- What is the main religion in this culture? How do the beliefs of this religion affect every-day lives. How is this religion the same and/or different from your own?
- What roles do men/women/children have? What are each of their responsibilities?
- What are some things that people in this group need? How does this compare to things that you need? Discuss the difference.
- What things might people in this group want? How are these wants the same/different from our own wants? What can you attribute these differences to?
- What natural resources are available to these people?
- What human resources are available?
- What work do men/women/children do? How does this compare to the work men/women/children around you do?
- What inventions/technology did these people develop/use? How do they use them? How do these inventions/technology benefit the people? Which groups are most benefitted?
- What do people make/trade/sell? Where do they do this?
- What do they use for money?
- How do these people interact with the people around them? What words would you use to describe their relationships/interactions?
- Identify the physical regions where ____. What words would you use to describe each of these physical regions. Give an example of _____.
- Identify these physical features _____.
- Show the political boundaries of _____.
- What are the significant features of this habitat?
- Look at the land features and look where the people groups are living. What relationships do you see? Why do you suppose the people chose to live here?
- What impact did the environment have on the placement of towns and cities?
- How did these people change their environment? Was this a good thing or a bad thing? Support your answer.