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Q:
Which of the following is NOT an essential map-reading skill according to the National Council for the Social Studies?
a. Orient a map and note directions.
b. Create a map from memory.
c. Use scale and compute distances.
d. Express relative location.
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All of the following ideas about time and chronology should be part of the elementary social studies program except:
a. Placing events in chronological order.
b. Developing an understanding of the time spans that separate historical events.
c. Learning the vocabulary of time (e.g., score, century, decade).
d. Learning the days of the week.
Q:
According to the text which of the following aspects of time and chronology would likely be learned outside of school?
a. Placing events in chronological order.
b. More technical aspects of time and chronology such as millennium, century, and score.
c. Days of the week, months of the year, and terms such as morning, noon, and midnight.
d. References to indefinite units of time such as many years ago.
Q:
Sociology as a broad social science is especially concerned with:
a. Wants and needs of people.
b. Social organizations.
c. Location of groups.
d. Cultures of people.
Q:
According to an anthropological point of view, what is a uniquely human creation that distinguishes humans from animals?
a. Creativity.
b. Culture.
c. Social organizations.
d. Diversity.
Q:
Which of the following concepts is NOT central to the study of economics?
a. Production.
b. Distribution.
c. Consumption.
d. Location.
Q:
Why does the text author believe it is important for students to ask political questions while they are building geographical knowledge?
a. People in power create the maps of regions being studied.
b. Politics impact the placement of buildings, roads, etc., in a society.
c. As students build knowledge about people and places they need to understand the political system holding that society together.
d. Understanding politics helps students to understand different types of government.
Q:
Geography is composed of five themes according to the National Geographic Alliance. Each theme is a.:
a. Concept that students should form as they work through multiple examples.
b. Way of thinking about the world that appeals to students.
c. Strategy for understanding how to go from one place to another.
d. Process for constructing multiple types of maps and scale drawings.
Q:
According to the author, what is a basic reason why students want to understand geography?
a. Students want to know their home address.
b. Students want to know the nature of the world and their place in it.
c. Students want to be able to identify what a map is.
d. Students want to write letters to friends in other geographical locations.
Q:
History teaches students to investigate what has happened in the past by teaching them to:
a. Orally communicate the chronological order of events.
b. Interpret evidence and produce a credible account.
c. Create research reports about their favorite event in history.
d. Interview family members who were a part of the historical events being studied.
Q:
What is an historical inquiry or investigation according to the text?
a. Giving students the opportunity to choose their own historical course of study.
b. Having students read about famous investigations in history.
c. Having students investigate their own family history.
d. A question-driven search for evidence and answers.
Q:
Teaching history provides students multiple opportunities to do two basic things. What are they?
a. Write biographies about prominent historical figures and sequence important events into timelines.
b. Be exposed to primary and secondary sources and utilize them in research.
c. Reason historically and gain historical knowledge.
d. Recite names and dates of historically important people and events and use them to answer multiple choice questions.
Q:
The text makes the claim that geography can be easily integrated into historical study. Why?
a. It is difficult to construct or comprehend historical narrative apart from geographical settings.
b. Geographical skills are not as important as historical understanding so they can be taught as an integrated topic.
c. Historical study is a broad concept incorporating many other disciplines including geography.
d. Geography as a discipline has a broad base that includes historical understanding.
Q:
The author urges social studies teachers to make religion:
a. A natural part of topics studied.
b. Disappear from the curriculum.
c. A separate course of study.
d. The major goal of instruction.
Q:
Which of the following is NOT a reason why students should be taught about democracy?
a. A democracy needs to be nurtured; it does not grow by itself.
b. A democracy needs to be maintained by its citizens.
c. A democracy needs citizens who look out mainly for themselves.
d. A democracy needs help to grow toward its ideals.
Q:
A pledge of allegiance is a type of:
a. Contract.
b. Constitution.
c. Promise.
d. Prayer.
Q:
Bridging citizenship learning in school with citizenship experiences in the community is important. What is one way to create such a bridge?
a. Through listening to a discussion.
b. Through service learning activities.
c. Through classroom meetings.
d. Through voting in mock elections.
Q:
Deliberation informs and empowers voting. Voting should be seen as:
a. A preliminary activity that comes before deliberation.
b. Impossible without deliberation.
c. A culminating activity.
d. None of the above.
Q:
Discussion stimulates students' reasoning. A discussion is most likely to have this effect when a student:
a. Dominates the discussion so that all his or her ideas are heard.
b. Listens to others' points of view without offering his or her own.
c. Attempts to push the discussion to another topic that is more to his or her liking.
d. Encounters and listens to reasoning that is somewhat different from his or her own.
Q:
Deliberation skills are not necessarily developed on their own but need to be:
a. Taught prior to practicing.
b. Taught, practiced, and learned.
c. Created within a group setting.
d. Taught after practicing.
Q:
According to the text, at what grade level should students begin learning about the power a citizen exercises in the act of voting?
a. Kindergarten.
b. Second Grade.
c. Fourth Grade.
d. Sixth Grade.
Q:
The words "under God" were added to the Pledge of Allegiance during:
a. World War II.
b. the Civil War.
c. the American Revolution.
d. the Cold War.
Q:
The author identifies three basic practices of democracy that can be nurtured in an elementary school. What are they?
a. Reading, writing, and listening.
b. Inquiry, reasoning, and debate.
c. Deliberation, voting, and community service.
d. Caring, respect, and independence.
Q:
What is the purpose provided in the text for gearing classroom activities to Multiple Intelligences theory?
a. To help students understand their strengths and weaknesses.
b. To encourage teachers to plan activities that incorporate all the intelligences.
c. To tap into all students' current strengths and encourage them to develop strengths in new areas.
d. To help teachers evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each student.
Q:
The text offers two suggestions for accommodating the child with special gifts and talents. What are they?
a. Tiered assignments and independent study.
b. Classwork and homework from the next grade level.
c. Extra credit for peer tutoring and mentoring younger students.
d. Planning lessons for the teacher and monitoring other students' behavior.
Q:
Despite the widespread belief in heteronormativity, teachers are obliged to do all the following except:
a. Know the facts.
b. Teach that discrimination is wrong.
c. Protect and nurture all students.
d. Ignore slurs and name-calling.
Q:
According to the author, students who are proficient in more than one dialect or language have:
a. A disadvantage because standard English is all that's really needed.
b. An advantage in a modern, diverse, and global society.
c. A disadvantage when looking for memberships in groups.
d. An advantage because they can provide translation for the teacher.
Q:
Which of the following conclusions about gender bias was NOT documented by research?
a. Girls receive less attention from classroom teachers than do boys.
b. Girls ask more questions than boys.
c. African-American girls have fewer interactions with teachers than do White girls.
d. Sexual harassment of girls by boys is increasing.
Q:
Which of the following statements summarizes the relationship between teacher expectations and student performance?
a. Teacher expectations do not impact student performance.
b. Students do not care about their teachers' expectations of their performance.
c. Students consistently perform above the expectations of their teachers.
d. Students tend to perform according to their teachers' expectations.
Q:
The text author suggests that teachers need to understand their own family history. Why?
a. Teachers need to be able to give their students an overview of where they come from.
b. Teachers need to know who they believe discovered America.
c. Teachers need to understand the cultural perspectives, values, and prejudices they bring to the classroom.
d. Teachers need to be able to tell the story of their family.
Q:
The purpose of culturally responsive instruction is to:
a. Help children maintain their cultural identities while learning the school curriculum.
b. Encourage children to understand different cultures.
c. Enable to children to respond appropriately to different cultures.
d. Help children from different cultures to understand the dominant culture.
Q:
What is individualized instruction as defined by the text?
a. Tailoring instruction to the capabilities of a student.
b. Tailoring instruction to the cultural differences of a student.
c. Providing personally meaningful learning experiences that enable students to achieve curriculum goals.
d. Allowing students to choose what they want to learn.
Q:
Which of the following is NOT a reason why teachers should plan for diversity in their classrooms?
a. Teachers need to teach social studies to all their students.
b. Teachers need to recognize and respect differences.
c. Teachers need to be stewards of democracy.
d. Teachers need to ignore cultural differences among students.
Q:
According to the text, which of the following is NOT a reason explaining why social studies units are often integrated units?
a. Social studies instruction is always thematic instruction.
b. Social studies often requires reading and writing.
c. Social studies has already integrated the social sciences, history and the humanities.
d. Social studies is animated by inquiry much like Science.
Q:
According to the text, an "achievement gap" persists today between White and non-White students and between students from poor and rich families in part because:
a. Teachers are not trying hard enough to close it.
b. Schools have become too large.
c. Poor students more often have fewer books in the home and parents with fewer years of schooling.
d. Multicultural education has not been widely accepted.
Q:
A major limit of many sixth and seventh grade social studies programs is that they:
a. Choose concepts that have broad applicability across skills and concepts.
b. Have no coherent scope and sequence.
c. Lack applicability to the ten Social Studies conceptual themes.
d. Attempt to deal with too many topics so that depth of understanding is sacrificed.
Q:
The text author proposes that teachers develop a curriculum planning habit of applying the ten social studies conceptual themes to the subject matter topical emphasis at an elementary grade level. Why is this an important habit?
a. Teachers are able to integrate other content areas into their social studies scope and sequence.
b. The relevance of instructional strategies to students' lives can be guaranteed.
c. The scope of a topic is expanded and deepened so that student understanding is expanded and deepened.
d. A social studies scope and sequence can be created for an entire elementary school.
Q:
The text proposes that a social studies scope and sequence for the elementary grades should:
a. Begin with aspects of topics that are familiar to students and expand to those aspects long ago and far away.
b. Begin with historical understanding and move into geographical understanding.
c. Begin with comparative studies to build a foundation for later study.
d. Begin with an emphasis on skills of oral communication and move into skills of written communication.
Q:
Which of the following is NOT an example of how the social studies should be taught in the elementary grades?
a. The social studies should be relevant to students' lives.
b. The students should be lectured about social studies daily.
c. The social studies should be taught in ways that help students gain insight into their social and physical world.
d. The social studies curriculum should broaden students' perspectives.
Q:
The subgoal of skills in social studies is related to knowledge because:
a. Knowledge must be learned before skills.
b. Skills are learned first, and then knowledge.
c. Skills determine knowledge.
d. Skillful behavior is supported by knowledge.
Q:
What subgoal of social studies learning is directed towards feelings and beliefs?
a. Attitudes and values.
b. Research skills.
c. Chronological understanding.
d. Content knowledge.
Q:
Curriculum narrowing has resulted in:
a. Less time for social studies, more time for math.
b. Less time for social studies, more time for art.
c. Less time for reading instruction.
d. More time for social studies instruction.
Q:
The social studies curriculum is aimed at two goals:
a. Adult employment and democratic citizenship.
b. Social understanding and democratic citizenship.
c. Personal fulfillment and social knowledge.
d. Marketable skills and social understanding.
Q:
What is the first indication of emergent literacy in a young child?
a. Child uses a single letter for a word
b. Child is scribbling
c. Child uses letter-like forms
d. Child writes letter strings
Q:
Ms. Apfelguard decided to do learning centers in the kindergarten. The leaf collection was gathered in September, placed on the science table where it remained for three weeks with no one looking at it or discussing it. What principle did Ms. Apfelguard NOT understand?a. Children understand how to use learning centers properly.b. The arrays of learning centers presented to children in a day and over time are diversified, representing a cross section of domains.c. Centers are organized and implemented based upon the teacher's knowledge of development and interest.d. Teachers use learning centers as a period to interact spontaneously with children and take advantage of opportunities to enhance, extend, and process information.
Q:
When should we begin teaching children how to edit their written work?
a. When they are writing a number of power words and can construct a sentence.
b. In third grade, when they can use a dictionary.
c. As soon as they are writing words so they do not develop inappropriate spelling strategies
d. When they are doing process writing.
Q:
Why use centers in early childhood settings?
a. The instructional difficulties related to individual and experiential differences are minimized.
b. Teacher planning and preparation time is minimized, especially in the beginning.
c. It assures that all children participate in the same things.
d. Once set up, there is little for the teacher to do the rest of the year
Q:
In learning to write, which stage appears first?
a. Alphabetic
b. Semantic
c. Consonant
d. Phonological
Q:
The best strategy in reducing the level of sound in the classroom where children are engaging appropriately in center learning is to do what?
a. Set rules so children must remain quiet.
b. Add carpet, cushions, corkboard or other soft materials.
c. Limit movement of the children to a few at a time.
d. Use more whole group instruction.
Q:
Which is the best definition of emergent literacy?
a. It is the entire process of becoming a fluent user of literacy.
b. It is the earliest phase in becoming literate.
c. It is the period in which a child begins to decode words.
d. It is the final and fluent stage of literacy.
Q:
Mrs. Schmidt noticed that Jacob had cut his leg on some outdoor play equipment that had a rough edge. What is her responsibility in this matter?
a. She should send him to the office.
b. She should put on gloves and apply first aid.
c. She should use gloves, apply first aid, and comfort the child.
d. She should use gloves, apply first aid, comfort the child, and report the need for equipment repair.
Q:
Which of the following would NOT be considered a red flag in speech and language development?
a. The child does not respond to "no" or changes in tone of voice between 0-3 months.
b. The child does not answer simple "who," "what," and "where questions or be understood by people outside the family between 1 and 2 years of age.
c. The child cannot understand differences in meaning or string together two or three words
between 2-3 years.
d. The child has not developed correct syntax and pronoun usage by 2 years of age.
Q:
The accommodations made for the special needs of one child might pose a safety threat to another child with quite different needs.
Q:
Which of the following does the "Word Wall" strategy involve?
a.The selection and posting of 5-10 high frequency words per week.
b. The teaching of spelling patterns in unfamiliar words.
c. The alphabetic listing of difficult spelling words.
d. Having children go around the room to read environmental print.
Q:
The physical environment provides cues for appropriate behavior for the children as well as stimulating learning.
Q:
Which of the following is the best definition of phonological awareness?
a. Awareness that the speech stream consists of a sequence of sounds or phonemes.
b. Understanding that oral language can be broken into smaller units and manipulated
c. Awareness of the smallest unit of sound.
d. Ability to follow verbal instructions.
Q:
The same large group space may be used for music, stories, blocks, and a climber within the schedule of a full day.
Q:
Which of the following would constitute an example of alliteration?
a. The beautiful moon rose over the sleepy town.
b. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
c. Susy sells seashells down by the seashore.
d. Teensy, Weensy Spider went up the waterspout.
Q:
Structural features of the outdoor play space have little influence on the behavior of the children.
Q:
According to research, what is one of the single best predictors of an entering kindergarten child's eventual reading achievement?
a. Ability to sing the ABC song
b. Liking to be read to
c. Knowledge of the alphabet
d. Receptive vocabulary
e. Having an educated parent
Q:
Most of the storage should be arranged primarily for the teacher's comfort and convenience.
Q:
Which of the following would be an example of anexpository text for young children?
a. A book of poems
b. An information book about squirrels
c. The book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar
d. A book of sing-along songs
Q:
The most effective use of writing materials and books is to restrict them to the writing center.
Q:
Which of the following (note underlined parts) is indicative of arime?
a. Fat hat
b. Two too
c. Flat frat
d. Too through
Q:
Constant noise is a factor in overall health, cognitive development and achievement.
Q:
What does it take for a child to automatically read a word in a sentence without sounding it out?
a. The task must become associative, rather than cognitive in nature.
b. The task must become cognitive, rather than associative in nature.
c. The task involves first an associative process and then becomes cognitive.
d. In reading, all words must always be sounded out.
Q:
Mr. Barkey used good judgment when he put the fertilizer and water mixture on top of the refrigerator when interrupted by an early arriving child.
Q:
What are "netizens"?
a. Daily messages placed on a white board by the teacher for children to decipher.
b. Short videos produced by children.
c. Citizenship awards given to children who have been models to others in terms of the number of books read during the year.
d. Children growing up in an era when becoming technoliterate is of primary importance.
Q:
Ms. Fountain used good judgment when she attached two household extension cords to plug in an electric fry pan on a table in the corner.
Q:
Rimes and rhymes are essentially the same thing.
Q:
Older children are accustomed to functioning in groups and have little need for private spaces.
Q:
Learning a second language is independent from a child's proficiency with his/her primary language and not related.
Q:
Crowded indoor space can be a cause of disruptive behavior in the classroom.
Q:
The concept of literacy rotations means using leveled texts with homogeneous groups of children.
Q:
List three strategies that the leader can do when a child becomes angry or very unhappy during the group learning experience.
Q:
Human language is a built-in genetic predisposition that is hard-wired into the brain.
Q:
Compare the accommodations or adjustments that might be necessary for younger less experienced children to enjoy group time to those of older or more experienced children.
Q:
Starting at age 3, children must learn about 3,000 words per year to "keep up" with normal language development.
Q:
Describe 3 pitfalls to avoid in planning effective group times.
Q:
The printed material that surrounds us every day on labels, signs, advertisements, and packaging is referred to as environmental print.