MTEL History/Social Science (73) case studies
MTEL History/Social Science (73) · Put your knowledge to work in context.
History/Social Science (73) is one of the Massachusetts Tests for Educator Licensure (MTEL), the Commonwealth's educator licensure testing program, delivered through Pearson. Candidates take it to demonstrate subject-matter knowledge in history and the social sciences for a Massachusetts teaching license in this field. The MTEL History/Social Science (73) case studies are 5 cases and about 2,981 words.
1Sourcing the Suez Canal: Building a Four-Document DBQ
The tenth-grade team at a Title I high school is writing a 25-minute document-based question for a unit on nineteenth-century imperialism. The prompt: To what extent did the Suez Canal depend on coerced Egyptian labor?
641 words, about 3 min2The Great Dying: Grading a Single-Cause Essay
A tenth-grade world history team is scoring essays on the question What caused the demographic collapse of Indigenous populations in the Americas after 1492? One student wrote: Epidemic disease alone destroyed Indigenous populations.
620 words, about 3 min3Did the New Deal End the Depression? Revising a Textbook Claim
An eighth-grade team is revising a unit on the Great Depression after a parent objected to the textbook sentence The New Deal ended the Great Depression. The team pulls a data table: unemployment at 24.9% in 1933, 14.3% in 1937, 19.0% in 1938, 9.9% in 1941, and 1.2% in 1944; real GDP falling again in 1937–38 after four years of growth; and roughly 8.5 million people employed by the WPA over its lifetime.
454 words, about 2 min4Mapping Childhood Asthma: Projection, Classification, and the Map That Misleads
A county health department must produce a one-page asthma map for a school board vote on port-adjacent truck routing. The county has 40 census tracts.
633 words, about 3 min5Bag Fee, Preemption, and Which Level of Government Wins
A home-rule city of 180,000 adopts a 10-cent fee on single-use bags, effective January 1, projected to raise about $400,000 a year for a reusable-bag subsidy program. In March the legislature passes, and the governor signs, a statute barring local regulation of auxiliary containers to ensure uniformity in interstate and intrastate commerce; it takes effect immediately.
633 words, about 3 min