TExES 291: Social Studies Exam
Questions and Answers
What representation(s) are best used for text only information? - Answer -Diagram or
Timeline
What representation(s) are best used for numeric information? - Answer -Tables,
Graphs, and Charts
What representation(s) are best used for ideas or opinions? - Answer -Political Cartoons
What representation(s) are best for information linked to land and has spatial
components? - Answer -Maps
What are Encyclopedias and what are they best used for? - Answer -Provide overview
of topic and link other concepts that can provide keywords, information, or subjects.
Ideal for background information
What are Bibliographies? - Answer -Bound collections of references to periodicals and
books that are organized by topic
What are Almanacs? - Answer -Volumes of facts published annually and provide
numerical information.
When are Almanacs useful? - Answer -When supporting arguments
Difference between Primary and Secondary resources? - Answer -Secondary resources
are taken and interpreted from Primary resources.
What do Sociology and Anthropology do? - Answer -Provide an understanding of how
the world's many cultures have developed an what these cultures and their values have
to contribute to society.
What do Sociology, Economics, and Political Science teach us? - Answer -Provide
understanding of the institutions in society and each person's role within social groups.
, What do Political Science, Civics, and Government teach us? - Answer -How to see
another person's point of view, accept responsibility, and deal with conflict.
Provide understanding of democratic norms and values (justice and equality)
What does Economics teach us? - Answer -Work, exchange, production of goods and
services, origins of materials and products, and consumption.
What does Geography teach us? - Answer -How to use maps, globes, and locational
and directional terms.
Provide understanding of spatial environments, landforms, climate, world trade and
transportation, ecological systems, and world cultures.
What is Inquiry-based learning? - Answer -Finding a solution to a question or problem
Formulating questions, investigating, and building new understand and meaning.
Facilitated by teacher
What is Systematic Inquiry? - Answer -Gathering information from several sources,
organize it, and analyze it.
What is Quantitative Research? - Answer -Uses techniques that involve numbers and
measurable values to gather data.
What are typically the byproducts of quantitative data? - Answer -Statistics, tables, and
graphs
What is Qualitative Research? - Answer -Takes data from observations and analyzes it
to find underlying meanings and patterns of relationships.
Involves non-measurable factors.
What are the forms of Primary Source Documents? - Answer -Court records, census
data, letters, diaries, music, or legal documents
What are students curriculum in Kindergarten? - Answer -Immediate environment
Topics cover home, family, and school
What are students curriculum in 1st Grade? - Answer -Continued exploration of the
immediate environment
What are students curriculum in 2nd Grade? - Answer -Includes the local community
What are students curriculum in 3rd Grade? - Answer -History an geography of the local
state
History of the US and US holidays
What are students curriculum in 4th Grade? - Answer -World regions
History and geography of their state
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