Our minds seek connections

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Chapter 3
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• Our minds seek connections
• Rather than drilling on minute portions of the
  test, find connections.

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Essential Social Studies Skills
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Studying Cultures

• Begin with visual hook
• Provide resources
• Use good literature
• Similarities/Differences
• Artifacts
• Culminating activity
• Reflection

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Data Disk
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Write a letter

• Imaginary person
• Pocahontas to her father
• Slave to his owner
• Someone on a wagon train to an Indian
• Soldier to the President
• Teenager in the Civil War to a friend on the
  other side
• Pages 76, 137

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Little Book

• Need legal sized paper
• Use to tell main parts of a story
• Events in history

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Newspaper

• Use Publisher
• Poster Board
• Page 81