Academic Connections:
Social Studies
A History That Still Touches Our Lives

Let Me Try It!: Part B

Directions: You probably arrived at this part of the Social Studies Academic Connection after you did the Let Me Try It!: Part A and checked your answers. The Let Me Try It! includes two more activities to help you think about the history of computers and keyboarding.

How Activity

Step 1:

Go back to the How Did I Do? section of the Social Studies Academic Connection. Your teacher may give you one of the following directions:

If your teacher tells you to print out the How Did I Do? page and/or this page, do so.

If your teacher tells you to copy the How Did I Do? page into a word processing document, do so.

If your teacher tells you to work from the How Did I Do? Web page as well as this one, do so.

Step 2:

For each of the real historical events listed in the How Did I Do?, add one more heading to the Who?, What?, When?, and Where? listings. Add the heading How? (either by keyboarding or writing as your teacher directs). Then write an explanation for how you think the particular true historical event touches your life today.

You may be tempted to simply say, "It doesn't." Think harder than that. You may also get as personal as you want.

For example, if you want to be a video game programmer when you get out of school, then you may want to explain that Steven Russell was the first person who did the kind of work you would like to do in your life. You may owe your future career to Steven Russell. You may also owe hours of playing video games to him.

Step 3:

No How Did I Do? is available for Part B of the Let Me Try It!. There are no simple right answers. However, you could have given incorrect answers. If you did not write about how each real event listed touches your life today, then you may want to discuss the stories with someone else who will help you think about the connections in a different way.

Teach Me!
Let Me Try It!: Part A
Let Me Try It!: Part C
How Did I Do?: Part A