Social Studies Skills Book 2: A Workbook For Homework And Revision

Description

These cost-effective, innovative, full colour Social Studies workbooks are designed to be used for homework, revision or class-work in New Zealand Social Studies classes. Skills units are self-contained and can be approached in any order, examples: analysing maps, cartoons, photos; making flow charts, timelines, problem-solving, paragraph writing, multi-choice questions, visual information, perspective etc. Settings are widely used in New Zealand schools, examples: Human Rights, Our Economy, Kiwiana, Multiculturalism, Waitangi Day, Environmental Disasters etc.

Author description

Ruth is an experienced social studies teacher and the author of numerous social studies publications.

Table of contents

CONTENTS 1 Understanding documents 2 Interpreting official documents 3 Interpreting images 4 Recognising violations 5 Recognising discrimination 6 Understanding group decisions and impacts 7 Where terrorism fits with human rights 8 Interpreting logos 9 Linking business and human rights 10 Teamwork in action 11 How public opinion polls work 12 Awareness of entrepreneurship and enterprise 13 Appreciating Kiwi ingenuity 14 Looking at the future 15 Examining resources 16 Examining statistical data 17 How to create captions 18 Honing graph skills 19 Revising tables and visuals 20 Understanding future problem-solving 21 Defining Pacific Rim and Pacific Basin 22 Revising acronyms and country codes 23 Understanding globalisation 24 Recognising culture in action 25 Keeping up with the growth of sustainability 26 Linking resources with sustainability 27 Practising multi-choice and sentence answers 28 Making sense of headlines 29 Appreciating cartoons 30 Considering youth issues 31 Reviewing your Treaty understanding 32 Committing to a process 33 Thinking about conflict 34 Responding to war resources Index and Skills summary Amnesty International and human rights (Analysing, Establishing criteria ) Conflict (Expressing attitudes, Self-knowledge) Culture (Representing, Activating prior knowledge) Discrimination (Recognising discriminatory practices and behaviour, Assessing) Entrepreneurial and enterprise qualities, individuals and advice (Self-knowledge and self-control) Future problem-solving process and global warming and Kiribati (Decision-making and explaining, Problem-solving) Globalisation (Sorting information, Describing a connection) Group decisions and Nuremberg (Recognising discriminatory practices and behaviour, Exploring values ) Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, and economies and human rights (Comprehension, Supplying specific words) Human rights (Expressing ideas clearly, Inferring) Human rights (Applying terms to definitions, Verifying) Human rights (Decision-making, Relating) Human rights (Integrating) Immigration (Critical thinking, Creating captions) Immigration (Analysing graphs) International organisations and countries (Critical thinking, Code-cracking ) Kiwi innovations and ingenuity (Matching, Decision-making) Kiwis on the move (Critical thinking, Assessing current knowledge) Kiwi youth (Activating prior knowledge) Migrants (Interpreting graphic data, Interpreting data in a table) Mozzies and military spending (Visualising, Decision-making) New Zealand flag and social commentary (Analysing, Formulating questions) Pacific region (Identifying relationships, Remembering) Past, present and future work (Assessing past, present and future, Selecting) Public opinion poll and carrying out poll (Identifying errors, Oral discourse) Resources and sustainability (Representing, Focussing) September 11, 2001, and global terrorism (Identifying relationships, Activating prior knowledge) Sustainability (Integrating, Identifying attributes) Sustainability (Decision-making, Information-gathering) Team membership, and team investigations (Concept-formation, Setting goals) Treaty of Waitangi (Identifying, Recalling) Waitangi Tribunal (Commitment) War (Sorting information, Retrieval) World events (Observing, Creative thinking)