Michigan Movement Test

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We have a Michigan Movement test on Tuesday. The students are bringing home a review paper today. Here are the questions if they misplaced the materials:

  • What is one reason a person might move within Michigan?
  • What is one reason a person might move out of Michigan?
  • What are two ways goods move into and out of Michigan?
  • Why do goods move?
  • What are two ways information or ideas, move in and out of Michigan?
  • What is an example of something moving into Michigan that people did not want?

Public Issues and Opinion Writing

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We have combined our Opinion Writer’s Workshop with the Public Issues in Michigan social studies unit. We will be writing our opinion pieces as it relates to a public issue. Our discussions will include  public issues in Michigan, our responsibilities as citizens, and Core Democratic Values. There will be a test on Core Democratic Values in March (date to be announced as we get closer to finishing the unit). We are currently working on flashcards at school and a review will be sent home closer to the test date. If you want to begin reviewing the flashcards at home, please click on the picture below:

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What are Public Issues?

  • Issues are things that people disagree about.
  • Public issues are issues that affect a large group of people such as school, community, or state.
  • Many times people disagree about how to settle, or resolve public issues.

Why do people disagree on public issues?

  • People have different points of view about public issues.
  • To understand an issue, you need to look at different points of view.
  • Disagreements about public issues are related to core democratic values.
  • Core democratic values are things people believe in that bring people together as Americans.
  • Some examples of core democratic values are freedom, fairness, and the common good.

Exploring a Public Issue Facing Michigan Citizens

  • One problem facing Michigan is our growing use of energy.
  • It is important to develop new sources of renewable energy to supply our energy needs.
  • Wind farms are a good source of clean, renewable energy.
  • Winds are often the strongest off the shorelines of the Great Lakes.
  • People disagree over whether or not to allow wind farms in the Great Lakes.

Evaluating Possible Resolutions of Public Issue Facing Michigan Citizens

  • People have different viewpoints about how to solve or settle a public issue.
  • Understand an issue, citizens need to look at different viewpoints about the issue.
  • Understand an issue, citizens also need to think about how core democratic values are connected to the issue.
  • When citizens understand an issue, they can make better decisions about how to solve the issue.

Core Democratic Values Test

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We have combined Writer’s Workshop with the Public Issues in Michigan social studies unit. We are working on opinion pieces as it relates to a public issue. Our discussions have included  public issues in Michigan, our responsibilities as citizens, and Core Democratic Values. There will be a test on Core Democratic Values on Friday, April 24th. For extra review, please click on the picture below for flashcards:

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What are Public Issues?

  • Issues are things that people disagree about.
  • Public issues are issues that affect a large group of people such as school, community, or state.
  • Many times people disagree about how to settle, or resolve public issues.

Why do people disagree on public issues?

  • People have different points of view about public issues.
  • To understand an issue, you need to look at different points of view.
  • Disagreements about public issues are related to core democratic values.
  • Core democratic values are things people believe in that bring people together as Americans.
  • Some examples of core democratic values are freedom, fairness, and the common good.

Exploring a Public Issue Facing Michigan Citizens

  • One problem facing Michigan is our growing use of energy.
  • It is important to develop new sources of renewable energy to supply our energy needs.
  • Wind farms are a good source of clean, renewable energy.
  • Winds are often the strongest off the shorelines of the Great Lakes.
  • People disagree over whether or not to allow wind farms in the Great Lakes.

Evaluating Possible Resolutions of Public Issue Facing Michigan Citizens

  • People have different viewpoints about how to solve or settle a public issue.
  • Understand an issue, citizens need to look at different viewpoints about the issue.
  • Understand an issue, citizens also need to think about how core democratic values are connected to the issue.
  • When citizens understand an issue, they can make better decisions about how to solve the issue.

Social Studies Homework

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Yourimages-z5h8tg child brought home a Michigan map for Social Studies. It is due on Friday, December 13th. Your child can write or type the labels. Make sure all items are spelled correctly. The map should be neat and colored.  They do have handouts that they completed in class to assist with this project. Remember this is not a parent project but feel free to guide your child.


Upcoming Tests

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We will be taking the Unit 6 math test on Thursday. We have been reviewing for this test since Monday. Your child will be coming home with the review sheet tomorrow. The test covers quadrilaterals, area and perimeter. This should be a review because we did this unit in December in our old math book. Click on the shape below for an online game to practice area & perimeter:

We will be having an Economics test next Wednesday, March 27th. A review sheet came home with your child today.

  • Opportunity cost means: (think about choice) The second thing you wanted but DID NOT CHOOSE. It is the one that you didn’t get.
  • People are examples of human resources.
  • Natural resources are found in nature and are things we use.
  • Economics is the study of using resources to produce a good or a service.
  • When we depend on other states for products it is called interdependence.
  • Logging is a Michigan industry. Logging means to cut trees for lumber and other uses.
  • Scarcity means: not enough of something.
  • Taxes, fees, and fines help the government to provide (pay for) goods and services.
  • Government taxes pay for things like road repair, public libraries, state parks.
  • An entrepreneur is: someone that uses resources to produce goods or services.
  • Manufacture means making goods in a factory.
  • Agriculture means farming.

Social Studies Quiz Review

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Here is the Michigan Regions Study Guide just in case your child forgot it at school. These are things that they have been reviewing in class. The quiz will be tomorrow during class.

Michigan Regions

  • Upper Peninsula: Mountains, Forests
  • Lower Peninsula: Flat farmland
  • Northern Lower Peninsula: Hills
  • Southern Lower Peninsula: Farming
Smaller Regions Within Michigan
  • Thumb: It’s shaped like a thumb
  • Fruit Belt: They grow a lot of kinds of fruit (West side of Michigan)
  • Straits of Mackinac: Where Lake Michigan & Lake Huron meet
  • Metropolitan Detroit: They have a lot of manufacturing companies & most of the people in Michigan live there.

Michigan is Part of a Larger Region

  • Midwest: Mostly flat farmland
  • Great Lakes Region: All of the states touch at least one Great Lake.

Social Studies Quiz Tomorrow

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Human Environmental Interaction Quiz

Humas have changed the environment by:

  • Cutting down trees for farmland and homes
  • Polluted Great Lakes and rivers
  • Used acres of Farmland to build cities
  • Building on the shoreline made some dunes erode
  • People filled in wetlands

Humans have adapted to the environment by:

  • Build houses with peaked roof because of the snow and rain.
  • Change clothes to match the weather
  • Have furnaces and air conditioners for the changing seasons
  • Use screens to keep bugs out
  • We grow apples instead of oranges