UTA HIST1302 Skill 6 Making Connections Participation Activity Latest 2021 November

HIST1302 US History since 1865

Skill 6: Making Connections Participation Activity

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Historical thinking is all about putting together critical thinking skills (think back to the critical thinking website you perused earlier) and the 5Cs (refer back to the article from Lesson 0.2) of history. It is about the whys and the hows. You will need to analyze what you are learning and make connections between the basic themes, events, and facts. Making connections is the most difficult aspect of this course and you will practice this skill over and over in both participation activities and the untests.

If you participated in the Historical Geography activity, you have already begun to make connections (in this case between an event and the environment). Below is a NON-HISTORY example of making connections between two seemingly unconnected events:

Fact 1: Men’s College football teams at the NCAA I FBS level can award a maximum of 85 scholarships to players

Fact 2: The US Women’s National Team has won the World Cup for the 4th time and has played in 5 of the 8 Women’s World Cup finals and US National Women’s Teams dominate Olympic competitions (Soccer, Softball, Ice Hockey, Volleyball, Rowing, Water Polo).

 Connection:  Title IX (of the Educational Amendments of 1972) legislation requires gender equity in both the classroom and school related activities at both the K-12 and collegiate level. At the time Title IX became law, women’s sports in schools and colleges was often underfunded or non-existent while men’s college football (and high school football in states like Texas) had money thrown at them. The law requires that men and women have proportional access to athletic scholarships at the collegiate level. Since most NCAA I level universities field large men’s football teams, they needed to field teams in women’s sports to remain in proportional compliance (you have to offset those 85 male players somehow). Therefore, high schools and colleges began fielding teams in quite a few different sports to be in compliance with Title IX and more American women began playing team sports. Today, the national averages are 1 in every 2.5 women play a sport in high school. The best of these female athletes now go on to play college sports, and national teams are pulled from the best of college athletes. Women have come to dominate Olympic Team Sports because American women have gender equity in team sports in high schools and colleges thanks to Title IX; few other countries have gender equity in sporting opportunities, particularly at the team level, for girls through schools and fewer girls play team sports in other parts of the world.

Now it is your turn to try making connections. Here are two facts

Fact 1: Humans raise livestock and often are in close contact with a variety of penned animals

Fact 2: Pandemics, including Covid-19, arise and globalize.

In this discussion, you may post your attempt at making a connection, or engage in conversation on the posts of others. Be sure to provide evidence for the connections you make in support of your analysis. You may also make other connections to the spread of pandemics.