FTCE SAE K-6 Social Studies
A teacher wants her third grade class to understand why there are different time zones across the United States. Which materials would be the most appropriate to use to accomplish this objective?
A globe and a fixed light source
A teacher wants her third-grade class to understand why there are different time zones across the United States. Which materials would be the most appropriate means to accomplish this objective?
A globe and a fixed light source
Which of the following materials is most appropriate for oral histories in a fifth grade classroom?
A living person's recollection about the past
Which of the following materials is most appropriate for oral histories in a fifth grade classroom?
A living persons recollection about the past
Which of the following would be an example of a special map?
A map depicting the distribution of population for the United States
Which of the following would be an example of a special purpose map?
A map showing the water features of the United States
The book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" espoused views comment to which of the following group?
Abolitionists
The international date line, the equator, and the prime meridian are used in conjunction with the degree system on a globe to denote
Absolute location
Which set of amendments is called the bill of rights
Amendments I through X
Which immigrant gained recognition as the king of the steel industry?
Andrew Carnegie
Which primary source would best present the conditions under which the Rough Riders operated during the Spanish-American War?
Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt
According to the diagram, which of the following statements is true?
Bills must pass both houses with 2/3 majority
Congress passes a law but it was vetoed by the president. Congress override the veto but the law was declared unconstitutional in a supreme court ruling. The situation illustrates the principle of
Checks and balances
The process by which the US government prevents the executive, judicial and legislative branches from becoming overly powerful as individual entities is known as
Checks and balances
Porcelain and civil service were developed by which civilization?
China
Porcelain and civil service testing were developed by which civilization?
Chinese
In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up a seat on a bus to a white passenger even though she was supposed to buy law. This is an example of
Civil disobedience
1. After assigning his class a project on the United States Founding Fathers a teacher wanted to find out each student's plan for research and ideas for a final product to reflect the content learned. Which of the following assessment methods would the teacher use to find out this information?
Class information
The section of Florida created under English domain in a proclamation in 1763 were
East Florida and West Florida
Which of the following is characteristic of a market economy?
Economic decisions are made by individuals looking out for their best interest
Which of the following would be considered a pull factor in regards to irrigation in the middle of the 1900s?
Economic opportunities
What is the term for a trade barrier that occurs when trade is banned with specific countries, often times for political instead of economic ones?
Embargo
The power of the government to take the private property for public use is called
Eminent domain
The European conquest of the world civilization resulted in the introduction of
European Culture
A search warrant is required for
Examining the content of a hotel room
A search warrant is required for
Examining the contents of a hotel room
At the local level of government, the city council member is a part of what branch of city government?
Executive
John O'Sullivan coined the term manifest destiny in 1845 to describe the tremendous westward movement of people happening in the United States and the belief that
Expansion to the Pacific was part of the divine faith of a superior nation
Which of the following pairs of industries made Boston the largest and richest American colonial town?
Farming and tool-making
Which level of government has the power to grant patents and copyrights?
Federal
Sterling legal disagreements between the states and the federal government is the duty of the
Federal courts
Which of the following US presidents supported the passage of Social Security?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The best method for grading a social science essay is to use a
Grading rubric combining language arts essay conventions and appropriate social studies content that was given to the students prior to the assignment.
The Industrial Revolution began in which country?
Great Britain
Which of the following would be the most ideal desk arrangement for a cooperative learning activity?
Group of four desks in a cluster, facing each other
According to the following graph of the worlds production of petroleum. Which statement is most accurate?
In 1975, Middle East production was greater than all other countries in the western hemisphere
Teachers must make informed decisions about the appropriateness of modifications needed when using assessment instruments with specific populations. In deciding how to address this situation, in a class that includes several ELL students, which would be the best choice?
Preparing an alternative assessment form, based on ELL students' ability levels
Which of the following productivity tools would be best suited for supporting oral book report?
Presentation program
One of the basic reasons for the success of the protestant reform ation was the invention of the
Printing press
Which of the following lists describes areas of endeavor to which Benjamin Franklin made significant contributions?
Printing, science, politics
To reduce a countries demand for oil, its government would typically
Provide tax credits for electric automobile purchases
A state legislature debates a bill on an important issue for two sessions without being able to reach a conclusion. Which process would allow the voters of the state to decide the issue?
Referendum
Which of the following factors led to the initial settlement of the Plymouth colony in 1620?
Religion
Which of the following activities best helps students practice compiling information from a wide array of resources?
Reviewing multiple websites and choosing a favorite of those websites
What source would be considered an interpretation of events written by historians or other observers after or at some distance from the event itself?
Secondary source
To appoint cabinet members and ambassadors, the President of the United States must have the consent of what group?
Send it
The area in a free market economy that relies more heavily on human resources and less heavily on natural resources is the
Service sector
How was commerce in ancient Egypt affected by the Nile river?
Since the River flooded regularly, trade was halted most of the year
Most early native Americans of the plains region depends more on Buffalo for substance then on maize farming because
Somewhat scars water and thick sod which was hard to plow without houses made cultivation of maize difficult
Which of the following revenue collection attempts has been seen as an immediate precipitating cause of the revolutionary war?
Stamp act
At the state level, who would be considered a member of the executive branch?
State governor
It is the democratic responsibility of U.S. citizens to
Stay informed of issues affecting them
To assess students' knowledge of St. Augustine, which of the following summative assessments would be most appropriate?
Student Observations
A first grade teacher is planning a unit on citizenship. Which of the following activities is the most developmentally appropriate strategy for introducing laws in the school and community academic standard?
Students develop a set of agreed upon classroom rules
In the mid-1900s, a new population trend began to emerge in the United States. Many people began to move from the north east to a region stretching from Florida across Texas to California. Many were attracted to the areas mild climate, and by the 2000s, Six of the largest American cities were located in the region. What is the name of this region?
Sunbelt
Which of the following women was instrumental in securing women's right to vote
Susan B Anthony
Which Florida location has a cluster of immigrants who harvest sea sponges?
Tarpon Springs
Which of the following involves a description of a task, standards of performance scale for point values?
Teacher- created rubric
Foreign aid can be considered money, goods, or services given by one or more nations to other nations. Which of the following types of foreign aid is identified as one or more nations providing professionals to teach skills in order to help another nations human resources?
Technical assistance
When utilizing flexible grouping in a social studies classroom, the teacher should group students
Temporally based on the specific learning task.
A teacher wants to teach about the original Seven Wonders of the World. Which of the following would be appropriate topic to gather this information?
The Great Pyramid of Giza, and Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Which event had the greatest impact on Florida?
The Mariel boat lift because most of the people involved came to Florida
The economic development of the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario was influenced positively by their proximity to
The Saint Lawrence river
The use of passages from Charles Dickens novel a tale of two cities to illustrate the establishment and chaos of revolutions to a social science class is an example of
The combination of literary analysis with historical concepts
Although Sioux leaders finally agreed to resettlement in the Black Hills region of South Dakota in 1868, these lands would again be encroached upon because
The government broke treaties to take back land when gold was found there
The European conquest of New World civilization resulted in
The introduction of European diseases
Why were the Spanish conquistadors able to defeat ancient native American civilizations such as the Aztecs and the Incas?
The native Americans fought on horseback, Which made them easy targets for the Spanish
When the founding fathers looked two documents such as the Magna Carta, and Mayflower compact as well as the contemporary writings of Pane, Madison, and Jefferson, they were contemplating a philosophy that would be
The overriding theme of the constitution
As citizens, it is important to understand how the different levels of government function. Which of the following is a power shared by federal, state, and local governments?
The right to tax citizens
If a tree disease affected Florida orange trees, Groves, the supply of orange and the products would decline. However, if the demand of oranges and orange products remains the same one could expect
The supply of oranges and orange products would remain the same
Which statement below describes the most appropriate end-of-unit activity for a fifth grade teacher to assess whether students understand how settling in Colonial America could be appealing and advantageous for some Europeans?
The teacher has the students work in groups to create a model colony diorama and assigns a grade based on the groups presentation of the diorama.
Between the years the spread of Islam across the middle east and north Africa, and Europe presented some of the most interesting of cultural dimension. An example was the case of the Andalusian kingdom found in 750 CE, the leader of Andalusia, escaped from where he was fighting in Damascus and was able to legitimize his power in the Andalusian kingdom, thus proclaiming himself emir. Although Christians, Jews and other Muslim lives in this kingdom, he made Islam the kingdoms official faith and non-Muslims were encouraged to convert. In designing an official faith for the kingdom, he created a (an)
Theocracy
Identify one consequence in the United States of the potato famine in Ireland?
There was an influx of Irish immigration
How to monopolize affect a country's economic system?
They decrease competition among businesses
Which of the following would be the best investment of a $25,000 inheritance
Treasury bills at 7% per quarter roll over
Which of the following test items would be least effective for assessing students knowledge of the bill of rights?
True or false
The response of the people of the Netherlands to having nearly a quarter of the countries area below sea level has been to?
Use reclamation Dykes, and boulders to create and protect usable land
An appropriate method for grading a social science essay is to use a
Using a grading rubric combining language arts essay conventions and appropriate social studies content that was given to the students prior to the assignment
Students in a World History class are researching architecture during the period of the Roman Empire. Which of the following resources would best contribute to the students' research?
Websites on the ancient civilizations
The code of Hammurabi was one of the important documents to survive from antiquity. It served not only as an important development in ancient society because it listed the penalties for certain offenses and said the degrees of various crimes, but also became the basis of
Western common law
In a unit about women's suffrage movement in the late 19th century a teacher could best supplement the curriculum with
Writings by Susan B Anthony
As a result of the traditional agricultural methods practiced by some industries in southern Florida
Mercury levels in Lake Okeechobee fish have lessoned
The Greeks spoke of the valley between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers as the land between the rivers. This region receives little rain, but the land has been enriched by the layers of salt deposited when the rivers would overflow their banks. Flooding could be unpredictable and sometimes catastrophic. In this circumstance, farming could be accomplished only with human intervention and technology in the form of irrigation and drainage ditches. A complex system was required to control the flow of the rivers and produce crops. The large scale irrigation made possible the expansion of agriculture which provided for the emergence of which ancient civilization?
Mesopotamia
A primary result of draining the Florida Everglades was that
More settlements developed in south Florida
A primary results of draining the Florida Everglades was that
More settlements developed in south eastern Florida
Cluster of Catholics live in the southern region of the United States primarily because
Moved in from Latin America
A person could decrease fixed expenses by
Moving to a less expensive apartment
Which of the following factors most likely would have influenced a medieval king selecting a castle location?
Natural barriers
The first dramatic expansion of the US government's activity in social policy occurred as a result of the
New Deal
What resource was central to the cultural and social changes that took place in post World War II United States?
Newspapers
What resource was essential to the cultural and social changes that took place in post World War II United States?
Newspapers
Beginning with Henry VIII and lasting through the rings of his children, the argument among religious groups in England about how much Catholic rates should be allowed in the angelic and church lead to
No world settlement ventures to allow groups to worship their own way
A seven-year-old boy receive $25 for his birthday. After careful thought, he narrows his options down to two, either spend the money on a new video game or put the money in the bank to save up for a new bike. The boy decide to buy the new video game. What is his opportunity cost in this scenario?
Not able to purchase the new bike in the future
A monopoly is said to exist when
One company is the sole provider of a product or service
Drastically increased oil and gasoline prices throughout the mid-1970s caused by the
Organization of the petroleum exporting countries cartels decision to reduce the production of crude oil
What was the principal contribution of Lorenzo de Medici to the Italian Renaissance?
Patron of the arts
Which was the principal contribution of Lorenzo de MidiCi to the Italian Renaissance?
Patron of the arts
Which of the following events would be a probable result of an Asian financial crisis?
Do US economy would face a downturn due to the loss of the Asian markets for US goods and services
When planning a kindergarten unit on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Which of the following is the best primary source?
Documentary video clip
"if men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary" what was James Madison advocating in this quote from The Federalist Paper?
A federal government with limited authority
For information on the deferring opinions on gun control, a student should analyze which of the following primary sources?
Constitution of the United States
Government by the people and the separation of powers are the main principles of ... which document?
Constitution of the United States
To best understand the differing opinions on gun control, a student should search which of the following primary sources?
Constitution of the United States
People who live in a flood plane need to consider
Constructing houses on pilings
Who was the first Spaniard after Ponce de Leon to lead an expedition to Florida?
Coronado
When teaching about events in American history during the 20th century, which increments of time would a teacher most likely use when constructing a timeline?
Decades
A low lying land formed by soil deposited at the mouth of rivers are called
Deltas
In a market economy, the supply of a given product is mostly likely determined by
Demand
Each worker performing only one part of the total job in mass manufacturing is called
Division of labor
Which of the following economic concepts does the excerpt... Once I started looking for them, these moments were everywhere. That I should be sitting in a coffee shop in London drinking Italian espresso served by an Algerian waiter to the streams of the beach boys singing "I wish they all could be California girls..." or hanging around a pub in New Delhi that serves Lebanese cuisine to the music of a Filipino it band in rooms decorated with barrels of Irish stout, a stuffed hippo head, and a vintage poster announcing the Grand Ole Opry concert to be given at the high school in Douglas, Georgia. Some Japanese are fanatics for flamingo. Denmark imports rive rhymes as much Italian pasta I did it 10 years ago. The classic American blonde Barbie doll now comes in some 30 national varieties and this year emerge at Austrian and Moroccan.
Interdependence
The man considered to be the principal author of the United State Constitution is
James Madison
Which of the following cooperative learning styles does the given scenario describe? A fifth grade teacher is organizing cooperative learning groups in order to teach about the American Revolution. The teacher selects a set of texts that students will read in their expert groups and report on to their home groups. Upon returning to their home groups, the students teach their other member hat they learned from the texts.
Jigsaw
Of the following, which philosopher and writer was influential to the framers of the constitution of the United States and wrote that people enjoyed right to life, liberty and property and that they could freely enter into a social contract to govern themselves?
John Locke
Which branch of the United States government can declare an executive act unconstitutional?
Judicial
The power of the supreme court to refuse to act on a law or governmental regulation if it conflicts with the constitution of the United States is referred to as
Judicial review
Which of the following enduring affects is caused by settlement in high altitudes such as in La Paz, Bolivia?
Lack of oxygen makes breathing difficult, and residents develop large lungs
Clusters of Catholics lived in the southeastern end of the United States primarily because Catholics moved in from
Latin America
The branches of state and local governments that perform functions similar to the US Congress at the federal level are the
Legislative and the county or city commission
The development of a farming culture in Florida allowed all of the following to take place except
Lifespan of the inhabitants decreased
Meridians and parallels are used on a globe mainly to help determine the geographic theme of
Location
The idea that a ruler's power has certain limits was originally stated in the
Magna Carta
Clusters of Catholics lived in the southwestern region of the United States primarily because Catholics
moved in from Latin America
In a lesson on geographic themes, a 5th grade class comparing and contrasting two maps showing the transportation routes of two different geographic areas is studying...
movement
