Analyze the chart. What are the 5 strands of Social Studies? Culture is broken into 3 subgroups. What are those three subgroups? What are the ultimate goals for teaching Social Studies?

Analyze the physical map of Europe. What are the two main colors that you see? What physical features do these colors represent? Based on the location of the physical features, what conclusion would you make about where most of the people live in Europe?

Look at the two maps below. Locate the latitude and longitude coordinatesfor Athens, Greece. Locate the latitude and longitude coordinates for Rome, Italy.

The assembly line is a system of labor where parts are added to a product in a way that shorten the time needed to create the product. Workers are trained to do one task only. They stand in a line, and as the products move with the conveyor belt, the workers perform their tasks. The products are finished without the workers having to move around.

It saves time, and it saves money, because skilled craftsmen are no longer needed. A low-skilled operator can replace them.

This was how the assembly line was like when Henry Ford first developed it. But there can be many variations of the assembly line. For example, homes are now mass produced. Now, manufacturers use machines instead of workers to work on the assembly line, because of labor costs and productivity.

Read the paragraph about the assembly line. What is the main idea of this passage? What are some other items that might be massed produced on an assembly line?Would you like to have a job where you worked on an assembly line? If more robotsare used on the assembly line, what happens to the workers?

In September, 2010, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that Germany was to extendthe life of all German nuclear reactors by 12 years. Nuclear energy accounts for 23% of German energy needs.

In May, 2011, German Chancellor Angela MerkelAnnounces that all nuclear energy plants in Germany will be shut down by 2022.

German anti-nuclear protester

Map of German Nuclear reactors

What event occurred to cause this drastic change in nuclear energy policy?

What are other energy sources that Germanymay use to make up the loss of 23% of Germany’s energy sources?

Lars and Helga Swanson live in Stockholm, Sweden. Lars is a dentist and Helga was an attorney, until she became unable to work. She is disabled by the disease, MS, Multiple Sclerosis. Helga needs 24 hour medical care. Lars applied to become an orthodontist, but the Swedish government would not allow him to become an orthodontist because they already had one in his district. The government provides for Helga to have a home nurse for 5 days a week. On one day, the government pays Lars to stay home and take care of Helga. On Sundays, Lars and his two children take care of Helga. The Swansons’ wanted to move to a town closer to Lars’ work, but because of Helga’s health issues, they are concerned about the availability of government provided health care for Helga.

Sweden is primarily a socialist country. The story you just read is true. What is one thing thatis positive about Socialism? What is one thing that is negative about socialism? How does the Swedish government pay for the medical care for Helga? How is this different from life in the United States of America?

Matryoshka Dolls(Also known as ‘nesting’ dolls.)

These are the most common souvenirspeople buy when they visit Russia.

All the pieces fit inside on another. They are hand-carved. Traditionally,

they have a woman as the largestdoll, followed by her husband and

children.Traditional Matryoshka dolls

Harry Potter Matryoshka dolls

How would the fact that these are hand-carved affect their price? Explain your answer.

What does it tell you about Russian culturethat usually women are the largest doll?(Notice that there are no men depicted in thetraditional set.)

The Harry Potter set would be an exampleof what kind of diffusion?

Who are the two groups represented in the political cartoon?

What is happening in the picture?

How does this cartoon represent what is happening in Europe in regards to the European Union and Greece?

Based on your analysis of this picture, what do you think will be the result forthe European Union?

Use the population mapof Africa to answer thefollowing questions.

Which color indicts an areawhere a lot of people live?

In these areas of high population, what kind of geographic feature (s) mightbe present?

Which color indicates an areawhere very few or no peoplelive?

What geographic feature is present in these area oflittle or no population?

The ASWAN DAM Purpose: Controlflooding, electricity,irrigation.

It provides nearly 50% of all Egyptianelectricity.

Built in 1952.

Each year when the Nile flooded, it left nutrient richsilt on the farmland in the Nile River Valley. This wasa natural fertilizer for those fields. The dam catchesrain water in the rainy season, and releases water in the dry season. To build the dam, 90,000 peasants wereremoved from their homes.

Where do you think those 90,000 peasants moved? If silt was not longer deposited inThe Nile River Valley, what do you think farmers had to do so that they could still farm?

What is the title of the flowchart?

List 3 things that, according to this chart,cause desertification.

List 3 human healthconsequences of desertification.

How could the peopleresolve the problem ofdesertification, and the health issues thatit causes?

Pygmies are native African tribal people who are short in stature. They live in the jungles of Gabon, Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Cameroon, and the Central African Republic.

How is deforestation affecting the Pygmies?

Those doing the deforestation believe that this is importantfor economic development. How do you think the Pygmiesfeel about the deforestation?

The TAUREG

On what continent do the Taureg live?

In what kind of physical climate do they live? How canyou tell?

Explain how their life might be different than yours.

These signs were common sights in South Africa during the Apartheid years.

Which group was afforded (given) more rights? How does this make you feel?

The black South African struggle with racism is similar to what movement in the USA ?

Apartheid is gone now, and so are many of the Jim Crow laws, but is racism gone?

These quotes are by what man?

What do you think he means in his‘deepest fear’ quote?

How does his second quote, aboutrising when you fall, relate to you?

Can you think of any words that you could use instead of falling and fall thatwould be appropriate in the quote and stillkeep its meaning?

In the spring of 2011, several Arab nations inAfrica and the Middle East had revolutions toreplace dictators with a democratic governments. You see several different symbols in these pictures.

Picture #1 shows what region of the world?What does the mans’ sign spell in picture #2? Whatdoes he use for the letters?What idea do you think that picture #3 is trying toillustrate? What do you think is the theme in all of these pictures?

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