First Day -- Why History?
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Social Studies, History
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8th Grade
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Hard
David Meddaugh
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20 Slides • 6 Questions
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Graduated from ORU with Honors in Social Studies Secondary Education
Certified to Teach US History, World History, Biology and (hopefully) Psychology
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Seattle
St. Louis
Studied for GRE and Psychology OSAT
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Poll
Did you travel this summer?
Yes
No
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Poll
The activity I did most over the summer was.....?
Play video games
Talk with friends
Read Books
Other option
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Poll
Why is school important?
It opens us to new people and new knowledge
It is a prerequisite for most high paying jobs
It's an central transmission of cultural ideas and values
It's key part of learning social skills and cues
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Poll
On average, how many IQ points do you go up every year you attend school?
None, it has no effect
1-2 points per year
3-4 points per year
2-3 points per year
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Multiple Choice
Your Friend Jason knows a lot about NBA but is a poor reader according to standardized testing. You know very little about NBA but are a very good reader. If you and Jason are given an complicated article about the NBA, who do you think will understand it better?
You
Jason
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Multiple Choice
Let's go back to Jason, your friend who knows a lot about the NBA but's a relatively poor reader. If you give him and yourself, a good reader who knows nothing about the NBA, a complicated article on the NBA, who do you expect to remember more from the article?
You
Jason
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https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cbc
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https://www.bls.gov/careeroutlook/2018/data-on-display/education-pays.htm
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wrote bestselling books "The Fault in our Stars" and "Looking for Alaska" and "Paper Towns"
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Current President of the US
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UK Prime Minister during WWII
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"Michael Scott" from the Office
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Founder of NAACP, First African American to receive PhD from Harvard
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Former US President
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More than half of the leaders studied social sciences or humanities
The research found that more than half of the leaders studied (55%) had either a social sciences (44%) or humanities bachelor’s degree (11%).
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