Objective:1. Quia Questions?2. Other ways to study history!3. Why should I even study Social Studies/History?

September 14, 2009

Homework:

In your passport…

•Place the “Why Study Social Studies” worksheet behind the correct question.

•Pick two reasons to study social studies and defend them in your passport

Warm up:Pick up the two

worksheets on the side counter near the homework bin.

Using page 9 & 10 in your textbook answer the * marked parts of

the “How to Study History” worksheet

Historians:

A person who studies and writes about the past.

Name one!!!!

Archaeologist:

A person who learns about people in the past by looking

at fossils and artifacts

(old things)

Anthropologist:

A person who studies all parts of human society

What is the difference between an archeologists and anthropologists?

Dr Dig!Technically, an anthropologist studies all aspects of humanity - physical (or biological), cultural, and archaeological. The archaeologist has a narrower field, and studies the past by recovering and analyzing artifacts and evidence of material culture. There is a great deal of overlap between the two disciplines.

Maybe a simpler answer would be good!

An archaeologist digs up and studies man's past by examining the material remains of his cultures and what he did, while an anthropologist interprets these findings to find out what he thought and believed.

Maybe a simpler answer would be good!

They are sometimes closely linked and can be blurred, but the main difference is that the archaeologist is concentrating on the physical evidence, while the anthropologist looks at the same evidence to discover how and why they believe whatever.

Artifact:

Items MADE by humans from the past

EXAMPLES??

Fossils:

Preserved remains of humans, plants, or other

items from the past

Examples??

How do you find these fossils and artifacts?

You dig them up!

What is another way

to say to dig up something

Excavate

Define: to dig up

Use it in a sentence

When I dig something up how do I know how old it is?

You can date it!

You mean take it out for dinner and a movie??

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO !

You can tell how old it is by saying what year it was made!

Now you know how we study social

studies….but why should we study it??