What are some major skills learned in social studies?

Social studies is an introductory class to geography, history and anthropology. Elementary and middle school social studies classes teach the following topics and skills: Map reading and navigation state, country and world (major events) story of the peoples of the world which includes: Basics of different types of governments (communism, socialism, democracy etc. ) Basics of economics (microeconomics, macroeconomics) Basics of different types of religion (Mormon, Jewish, Christianity etc.) Basics of the different worldwide cultures and cultural periods (Ancient Egypt, Ancient Rome, Renaissance, Middle Ages etc. ) Getting inside the heads of people who lived in those cultures and cultural periods to better understand what their lives were like and why they lived the way they did. This encourages not only a better understanding of what people who lived long ago were like, but also gives some insight into why we as people in the modern world live the way we do.

Social studies teaches the basics of more advanced topics that are studied later in high school and college including (but not limited too) sociology and the aforementioned history, geography and anthropology. From socialstudies. Org (National Curriculum Standards for Social Studies): -quote The primary purpose of social studies is to help young people make informed and reasoned decisions for the public good as citizens of a culturally diverse, democratic society in an interdependent world -endquote.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.