2. What is a concept?

3. a cognitive unit of meaning an abstract idea or a mental symbol

4. concepts are mental representations

5. It emerges from abstraction

6. abstraction is a mental process when the things are not clear

7. beautiful flowers

8. red

9. concepts need phrases or symbols to understand

10. Phrases or symbols need observation

11. Or at least visualization

12. Social Studies is full of abstractions

13. Are you looking some abstractions on this page Earth Earth surface Movements of Earth surface Human skull Sheet of rock Great land masses Icebergs Interior of the Earth Plates of the skull Don’t move Scientists

14. The terms are vague to the students

15. Can you decide it is dawn or sunset

16. Find the abstractions

17. Maps are very difficult to the students

18. There is an abstraction and a concept derived from that abstraction. Please indicate

20. What is abstraction?

22. the basic needs of population

23. How are the concepts investigated or created

24. Discussions

25. Students presentation