Essays Tagged: "Social Studies"

The Holocaust

nd uncaring. That is my opinion of him, but other people might think different.In language arts and social studies, my class and I have learned about the holocaust. In language arts, we are reading th ... r her. They were going to stay in hiding until the war was over, but that didn't happen. Lastly, in social studies we just started on WWII, and we learned about Hitler and how this war started.At firs ...

(2 pages) 89 0 3.4 Mar/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

Privately Owned Gasoline Powered Vehicles Should be Limited

tion paper Very well written...do you really think people will give them up though?February 25, 1995Social Studies 10HPrivately Owned Gasoline PoweredVehicles Should Be LimitedThe automobile has becom ... cess to a car in order to keep up with all of the competition of the business world, and also one's social demands. Most people would not be able to travel around a country or the world without this i ...

(7 pages) 60 0 4.6 Feb/1995

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Compare and contrast the role of the Federal Bureaucracy in the United States with that of the Civil Service in Britain

Max Weber, (often) credited with the birth of sociology, the science of social studies, said that the 'ideal bureaucracy' consisted of a system that was efficient, worked f ...

(5 pages) 149 2 4.4 Feb/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government > European Union

Japanese military, social, political and economic reforms in the Meiji restoration.

01.05.2003Social StudiesJapanese military, social, political and economic reformsin the Meiji restorationMilit ... et up to protect and review the constitution, its sessions were lead by the Emperor Meiji himself...Social:In 1872 it was ordered that all children, boys and girls both, were to attend primary school ...

(2 pages) 61 0 4.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

My story of september 11th paper

le. Math was boring, I got in trouble in art, I had to run in P.E., and even forgot my homework for social studies. It was certainly the typical day for me.Yet, just as the sun eventually falls, th ... ust as the sun eventually falls, the day slowly went from bad to worse. It was 4th period. I was in social studies. The time was 11:04, 56 minutes before the lunch, and that's what I was thinking abou ...

(2 pages) 27 0 0.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

Social COntract Essay

chaos continued. I tried to think of what made my home, Canada's society work. I thought back to my Social Studies and my teacher was teaching us about how societies are run and such. Then I remembere ... y teacher was teaching us about how societies are run and such. Then I remembered something about a Social Contract and how it was the key to a societies function. I lay in bed one night and asked my ...

(17 pages) 96 0 2.6 Mar/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

Social and Technological History of Television

omorrowCandice ChungSeminar: Media Criticism IE. 38. 200712/1/2003GallowayPart I: Technological and Social History of Television"Television has altered our world."Raymond Williams, The Technology and ... agreed statement about television. Since, the invention of television there has been a plethora of social studies analyzing its existence in our society and they consist of a range of opinions, forec ...

(18 pages) 203 0 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

"Women in World History". Website critique 676 words. Art History.

ollege and masters in history from Stanford University. She also completed a year of course work in social studies methodology at UC Berkeley. She began researching women's history in the early 70's a ...

(3 pages) 76 0 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

Black Beauty , report

THE NEW AMERICAN, INC. Published in the year 1960 354 PAGES Guillermo Chiu Social Studies Period / G Summary of Novel A Tale of Two Cities is written by Charles Dickens and it ... nay. Summary of the Standard Historical Source The French Revolution is a cataclysmic political and social upheaval, extending from 1789 to1799. The revolution resulted, among other things, in the ove ...

(6 pages) 58 1 2.8 Oct/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies

Pitfalls of Standardized Testing. This essay explains how standardized tests should not be the only way that schools should look at how students improve in their acedemics.

cores, some school systems have trimmed or even eliminated recess, field trips, electives, science, social studies, and subjects that are not on the test.@ This quote makes it clear that standardized ...

(2 pages) 80 0 3.0 Nov/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Short piece about college life for 12th graders.

have a school day. You have classes. For example, on Mondays, you might have English at 9 and then Social Studies at 1. That might not sound like a big deal to you, but some people need something to ...

(2 pages) 22 0 1.7 Oct/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Why is Social Studies Important in Education?

tself. The highlight of many of my high school years was the "hands on" learning we received in our Social Studies. These were the classes where you actually were engaged by the teachers, reliving his ... he teachers, reliving history and government through activities and group discussions. Today, where Social Studies is often looked upon as the "other class", a greater dependency on social interaction ...

(3 pages) 33 0 5.0 Mar/2007

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

History

h about history, are adults risking the authority they hold along with adult-held values? "Learning social studies is to no small extent, learning to be stupid." (LMTTM 298.) What happens when history ...

(2 pages) 23 0 0.0 Feb/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Social Studies

Social studies is defined by the Board of Director of the National Council for the social studies as ... he Board of Director of the National Council for the social studies as, the integrated study of the social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence. Within the school program, social studie ... appropriate content from the humanities, mathematics, and neutral sciences. The primary purpose of social studies is to help young people develop the ability to make informed and reasoned decisions f ...

(5 pages) 53 0 0.0 Feb/2001

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Standards, Assessment, And Social Studies.

t of Public Instruction, only 47 percent of the assessable performance standards designated for the social studies were measured by the TerraNova test that was administered to eighth grade students in ... edge and Concepts Examination: An Alignment Study at Grade 8.Wisconsin Model Academic Standards For Social Studies.www.alfiekohn.com --Alfie Kohn's web site.Ó 2001

(2 pages) 19 0 0.0 Jul/2001

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Of Mice And Men

Book Report: Social Studies Title: Of Mice and men Author: John Steinbeck Genre: Historic Adventure Fictional Sta ...

(2 pages) 958 0 0.0 Jan/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

7th And 8th Grade

Social Studies and English similar. They both are a chance to learn about the past and on the future ... our future; people such as William Shakespeare, Christopher Columbus, and King Louis XVI. In social studies you really start to concentrate on the past and how it shaped our future. The 7&8 ... really stick with our country's history and don't focus on the rest of the world. As for the social studies for high school that's when you start to expand your knowledge on the worlds history ...

(1 pages) 932 0 0.0 Feb/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Untitled

h about history, are adults risking the authority they hold along with adult-held values? "Learning social studies is to no small extent, learning to be stupid." (LMTTM 298.) What happens when history ...

(2 pages) 27 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Accessing Prior Knowledge Thro

tter. Strength in language arts is vital to learning any text whether it is mathematics, science or social studies. What can educators do to incorporate text to bring more meaning to a child's learnin ...

(1 pages) 1220 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Accessing prior knowledge through hands on experi

tter. Strength in language arts is vital to learning any text whether it is mathematics, science or social studies. What can educators do to incorporate text to bring more meaning to a child's learnin ...

(1 pages) 11 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology