Top 10 Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tGMDEv9SNw
Wednesday, August 28th
https://www.dogonews.com/2019/8/5/500-year-old-christopher-columbus-era-shipwreck-found-in-the-baltic-sea
Current Event Report Practice
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BWHXAUPiT-GniAhHpkcHpEtZwy4AiMFuCb6FYa6r9MA/edit
Form Practice
8th Grade Social Studies Final Exam Review
https://quizlet.com/_6k2k9j
Ms. Elledge's 8th U.S. History Review Quizlet
8th Grade US History Review Game Links
Social Studies Standards Review
The key to mastering US HISTORY is asking the right questions. As you learn about new topics, ask the BIG IDEA and SMALL IDEA questions. If you can answer these questions, then you have mastered that topic.
History
Big Idea Questions:
- How does CONFLICT effect the US/NC?
- How do leaders change the US/NC?
- How do individuals/groups change the the US/NC?
- Why is debate, compromise, and negotiation important in the evolution of the US/NC?
- How does immigration and migration effect US/NC?
- How does technology change the US/NC?
- How are past and present events similar?
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Big Idea Questions:
- How does CONFLICT effect the US/NC?
- How do leaders change the US/NC?
- How do individuals/groups change the the US/NC?
- Why is debate, compromise, and negotiation important in the evolution of the US/NC?
- How does immigration and migration effect US/NC?
- How does technology change the US/NC?
- How are past and present events similar?
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Geography
Big Idea Questions:
- How did the environment affect the development of NC/US?
- Why are places different culturally, politically, and economically?
- Why and how do places change?
- Should Americans modify the Earth (NC/US)?
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Small Idea Questions:
- What are the different regions of NC/US?
- What are the physical geographic differences throughout NC/US?
- What are the different cultural, political, and economical locations in NC/US?
- What are the three types of regions?
How have Americans modified the Earth(NC/US)? |
Civics and Government
Big Idea Questions:
- Why are Government Principles (limited government, popular sovereignty, separations of powers, republicanism, federalism, and individual rights) important for citizens?
- How are the US government principles implemented?
- Should the national or state governments have more power?
- What is the job of the government?
- Does civic action effectively bring change?
- Why is society unequal?
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Small Idea Questions:
- What are the principles of the US Government?
- What are the similarities and differences between state and national government?
- What documents shaped NC/US and what did they state?
- What are the different types of civic action?
- What do liberals and conservatives believe?
- What groups of people struggled to gain democratic rights and how did they gain access to these freedoms?
- What issues have citizens fought to change?
- What civil rights and human rights movements have occurred in NC/US and how was NC/US impacted?
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