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    Social Studies

    The BPSS (SST) Social Studies Commons course in Learnbps ...

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    Skills and Resources


    Use these learning activities and resources to apply social studies skills and resources.
    • SST-05.1 Skills and Resources

        • SST-05.1.01 Interpret and compare maps of the United States (i.e., political, physical, thematic)
        • SST-05.1.02 Identify differences between primary and secondary resources (e.g., maps, charts, line and bar graphs, Internet, atlases, journals, letters, photographs, interviews, periodicals)
        • SST-05.1.03 Evaluate current events using print and electronic media (e.g., newspaper, children's news magazines, television, Internet)
        • SST-05.1.04 Construct and interpret time lines of key events in United States history
        • SST-05.1.05 Use spatial terms to describe the world (i.e., Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, International Dateline, Arctic Circle, Antarctic Circle)