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Self Test

This activity contains 12 questions.

	Students use prior knowledge and information from their experiences to construct new social studies knowledge. Important goals for teachers when working with students on inquiry skills are:   Teachers help students develop meaning from their experiences. Teachers help students develop memorization skills so they can remember content for tests. The transfer of an inquiry skill from one context to another. One major goal of learning inquiry skills is to help people get jobs in later life. Answers 1 and 3. Answers 2 and 4.

	Mr. Daniel is a kindergarten teacher. Today, some of his students are at one center filling several containers of different sizes and shapes with water. What inquiry skill are they learning?   prediction estimation inference observation

	Social studies inquiry skills can be grouped into four distinct categories according to their functions. Which is not a basic category?   Data gathering Data organizing Communicating Data Processing Data memorizing

	The fifth grade students at George Washington Carver Elementary School are studying the concept of "Innovation" in social studies and science. Their task is to design an invention on paper, create a survey, and interview, at least, ten potential consumers of different ages about their invention. This part of the inquiry should answer questions about desirability and marketability of the invention. These fifth graders are involved in which of the four categories of inquiry skills?   Data-processing skills Data-organizing skills Data-gathering skills Communication skills

	Data gathering is the beginning point. The information gathered has little meaning to students unless they are helped to organize it so that it is usable. Skills that are most important for organizing data are:   Observing, interviewing, and questioning Predicting, interpreting observations, inferring, making conclusions Reporting, writing, and formal and informal discussing Classifying, ordering or sequencing, and isolating variables

	Ms. El Courrie knows that her sixth grade students receive about 80% of their information through visuals. These visuals are produced through the Internet, T.V., movies, CDs, DVDs, magazines, billboards, advertisements, and other such sources. She also knows that when her students give classroom presentations, many prefer to communicate and receive information through multimedia presentations. Knowing these things, how can Ms. El Courrie help her students communicate their findings from inquiry projects?   She can draw upon their interests and teach them effective multimedia communication skills. She should bring more encyclopedias into the classroom and encourage students to conduct most of their research at school. She should require students to use only reading, writing, discussing, and graphing to present results of their inquiries. She can allow her students to use some of these sources to gather information. All of the above Answers 2 and 3

	What is the difference between these two statements? 1.) Ireland's flag is green, white, and orange. 2.) Samantha told me that the Irish national flag is green, white, and orange.   One is an observation and one is an indirect observation One is an indirect observation and one is a inference One is a hypothesis and one is an observation One is an observation and one is an inference

	The fifth grade students at George Washington Carver Elementary School are studying the concept of Innovation and are in the process of creating their final inventions for the Invention Fair. John decided to invent a toothpaste squeezer. First he researched the U.S. Patent Office on the Internet to see if it had already been invented. Then he built a model and ran three tests on his toothpaste squeezer with three identical tubes of toothpaste. The results were that, although a majority of people he interviewed with his marketability survey said that they would buy the product, he could not get his invention to consistently work when he tested it. What does John need to do?   John should give up and create a totally different invention for the Invention Fair. John should submit his original version of the invention to the Invention Fair, even though the design does not work. John should consider what needs to be changed on the design, change it, and test the revised version of the invention.

	A sixth grade class was beginning a service learning project. The students discussed and researched different areas in the local community and found that there was a school in great need of outside care. They worked and earned their own money, bought plants and shrubs, and worked side-by-side with the students and parents from that school. All of the outside areas were left free of trash and beautifully manicured. The sixth graders decided that they would expand their project to encompass other area schools. What does this have to do with learning inquiry skills?   They are learning how to question authority and take over. Growth of inquiry skills should be accompanied by the development of sensitivity and responsibility. The students in their school are probably required to participate in community service.

	According to the National Council for the Social Studies (1994b), critical thinking involves a complex set of dispositions which include all but one of the following. Which statement is not related to critical thinking?   Trying to be well informed Taking into account the total situation Requiring students to copy word definitions from the board. Looking for alternatives Seeking reasons

	Ms. Fontino's fourth grade students are learning to research with primary documents. They have each selected a topic of interest as they study the concept of "Freedom." A problem some are having is that it is not possible to obtain adequate data on some topics. The information might not exist in a form available or understandable to them. For example, Emilia wants to study runaway American slaves, but it is often difficult to find true written accounts. What can she do?   She can make inferences based on information found on the Internet, in resource books, or via speakers from the local community college history department. She can make inferences based on the information available in the documents that she does find. After making inferences, she can explain how valid or reliable she judges her hypothesis to be. She can pursue a related problem for which more information can be found. All of the above None of the above

	The kindergarten students, fourth grade students, and sixth grade students in the Randolph City School District are all learning inquiry skills such as classifying and observation. Why should all of these grade levels, and others, teach the same skills?   Basic skills are introduced in kindergarten, used in elementary school, and independently used in middle school. Inquiry skill learning does not require relating new skills to prerequisite skills. The categories of inquiry skills do not provide a way to scaffold the introduction of these skills in social studies lessons, so they should not be taught at different levels.

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