STAAR Grade 8 Social Studies: Social Studies Skills

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  1. artifact
    a man-made object
  2. bias
    a partiality preventing objective consideration of an issue
  3. biography
    an account of the series of events making up a person's life
  4. chart
    a visual display of data or information
  5. chronology
    the determination of the temporal sequence of past events
  6. conclusion
    a position or opinion reached after consideration
  7. graph
    a visual representation of the relations between quantities
  8. inference
    a conclusion you can draw based on known evidence
  9. media
    systems of mass communications considered collectively
  10. perspective
    a way of regarding situations or topics
  11. point of view
    a mental position from which things are perceived
  12. primary source
    a firsthand document that provides information
  13. secondary source
    a work that describes or analyzes firsthand accounts
  14. summarize
    briefly present the main points of something
  15. timeline
    a sequence of events arranged in chronological order
Created on Wed Jun 23 15:42:39 EDT 2021 (updated Thu Jun 24 08:24:02 EDT 2021)

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