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Lesson Topic
Looking at the World: Historians, Scientists, Humans, and Other Observers of the World
Lesson Outline
Kelcy and I continued our discussion on Social Studies. Our goal is to: 1) define what is Social Studies; 2) how people Study the World; and, 3) who are the people who perform the many different social studies? The focus of this lesson sought primarily to answer how people study the world. I used vision as the focal point of any study, and we discussed vision with the eyes in contrast to vision with the mind. I had Kelcy look at images of animals, then I had him imagine animals changing colors in his mind. A dinosaur was changed from red to yellow to purple and eventually became "Barnie." This illustrated the ability of the mind to visualize things it is familiar with through actual or imagined experience. Likewise, I showed Kelcy how scientists study different things, and each type of scientist uses different instruments and tools to discover, observe, and study the world. I shared how astronomers and other scientists use "scopes" of various types to look at and study the stars far away or microorganisms not visible with the "naked-eye." Kelcy was able to see how vision was critical to any social study or other effort to investigate and understand the world.
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Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Session Hours
1.00
Hours Attended
1.00
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