Answer:
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Explanation:
The social studies practice tests provide teachers and students with items that mirror the kinds of questions that
appear on the LEAP 2025 Social Studies assessments. To illustrate how the assessment reflects the Department’s
vision for social studies and to support teachers in their use of the practice tests, this document contains a sample of
annotated items from the LEAP 2025 Social Studies Practice Tests for grades 3-8. The annotations describe the
purpose and reasoning represented in the selected items. For additional information about the practice tests, please
see the LEAP 2025 Social Studies Practice Test Guidance.
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SOCIAL STUDIES VISION
To be productive members of society, students must be critical consumers of the information they read, hear, and
observe. To develop and express informed opinions, they need to examine and evaluate information from an array of
sources and connect that information with their background knowledge. To understand how events happen and why
people act in certain ways, students must also make connections between what happened in the past and what is
occurring in the present. To accomplish this, students must
use sources regularly to learn content;
make claims that demonstrate connections among people, events, and ideas across time and place; and;
express informed opinions using evidence from sources and outside knowledge.
Simply stated, students must delve deeply into content so that they are able to develop and support claims about
social studies concepts.
