PRAXIS Content Review

History

The PRAXIS exam is sectioned into four parts each with fifteen questions. These parts include history, civics/government, geography, and economics. The exam has sixty questions and is completed in fifty minutes. For the history section of the PRAXIS exam, it includes a wide range of information covered in elementary social studies. These topics include primary vs. secondary sources, classical civilizations, indigenous peoples in North America, European exploration/colonization, the thirteen American colonies, the development of the United States government, the United States in the nineteenth century, and the United States in the twentieth century. The document linked below is a study guide for the PRAXIS history portion of the exam. It goes into depth about the topics listed above. It includes vocabulary, definitions, and examples of historical events.

Civics/Government

The second section of the PRAXIS exam covers civics and government. This section, like history, is also fifteen questions. These questions include topics like the structure of the United States government, United States citizens' rights and responsibilities, the various forms of government, ideas about the Declaration of Independance, ideas about the United States Constitution, ideas about the Bill of Rights, how to be a responsible citizen, the election process, and United States politics. The document below includes these topics in further detail. There is also a Quizlet linked in the document that defines additional events and vocabulary terms. This document is used for studying for the PRAXIS exam.

Geography

The geography section of the PRAXIS exam is the same in length as the other sections. The different topics included in the geography section are location on a map, distance on a map, direction on a map, the physical characteristics of a place, the human characteristics of a place, and the similarities vs. differences among people. The two types of geography covered in the exam are physical geography and human geography. Physical geography is defined as the natural features of a place. Some of these features might be landforms, continents, and weather. Human geography is defined as how humans affect or are influenced by Earth's surface. An example of this is climate, interactions with the environment, nations, states, boarders, politics, and culture. The document below includes more information.

Economics

The final section of the PRAXIS is economics. The ideas covered in this section include how human needs are met, the concept of goods vs. services, earning money, spending money, saving money, how businesses operate, and the patters of economic activities in the United States as well as the world. Economics is the study of resources, choices, production, consumption of wealth, transfer of wealth, and determining who gets what. The two subtopics of economics are microeconomics and macroeconomics. Microeconomics is small independent businesses or individuals. Macroeconomics is large systems. The document linked below is a study guide that covers all the topics listed above to prepare for the PRAXIS exam.