Standards
Students differentiate between things that happened long ago and things that happened yesterday.
Generate resourceTrace the history of a family through the use of primary and secondary sources, including artifacts, photographs, interviews, and documents.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast their daily lives with those of their parents, grandparents, and/or guardians.
Generate resourcePlace important events in their lives in the order in which they occurred (e.g., on a time line or storyboard).
Generate resourceStudents demonstrate map skills by describing the absolute and relative locations of people, places, and environments.
Generate resourceLocate on a simple letter-number grid system the specific locations and geographic features in their neighborhood or community (e.g., map of the classroom, the school).
Generate resourceLabel from memory a simple map of the North American continent, including the countries, oceans, Great Lakes, major rivers, and mountain ranges. Identify the essential map elements: title, legend, directional indicator, scale, and date.
Generate resourceLocate on a map where their ancestors live(d), telling when the family moved to the local community and how and why they made the trip.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast basic land use in urban, suburban, and rural environments in California.
Generate resourceStudents explain governmental institutions and practices in the United States and other countries.
Generate resourceExplain how the United States and other countries make laws, carry out laws, determine whether laws have been violated, and punish wrongdoers.
Generate resourceDescribe the ways in which groups and nations interact with one another to try to resolve problems in such areas as trade, cultural contacts, treaties, diplomacy, and military force.
Generate resourceStudents understand basic economic concepts and their individual roles in the economy and demonstrate basic economic reasoning skills.
Generate resourceDescribe food production and consumption long ago and today, including the roles of farmers, processors, distributors, weather, and land and water resources.
Generate resourceUnderstand the role and interdependence of buyers (consumers) and sellers (producers) of goods and services.
Generate resourceUnderstand how limits on resources affect production and consumption (what to produce and what to consume).
Generate resourceStudents understand the importance of individual action and character and explain how heroes from long ago and the recent past have made a difference in others' lives (e.g., from biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Louis Pasteur, Sitting Bull, George Washington Carver, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Golda Meir, Jackie Robinson, Sally Ride).
Generate resourceStudents place key events and people of the historical era they are studying in a chronological sequence and within a spatial context; they interpret time lines.
Generate resourceStudents correctly apply terms related to time, including past, present, future, decade, century, and generation.
Generate resourceStudents explain how the present is connected to the past, identifying both similarities and differences between the two, and how some things change over time and some things stay the same.
Generate resourceStudents use map and globe skills to determine the absolute locations of places and interpret information available through a map's or globe's legend, scale, and symbolic representations.
Generate resourceStudents judge the significance of the relative location of a place (e.g., proximity to a harbor, on trade routes) and analyze how relative advantages or disadvantages can change over time.
Generate resourceStudents summarize the key events of the era they are studying and explain the historical contexts of those events.
Generate resourceStudents identify the human and physical characteristics of the places they are studying and explain how those features form the unique character of those places.
Generate resourceStudents identify and interpret the multiple causes and effects of historical events.
Generate resourceStudents pose relevant questions about events they encounter in historical documents, eyewitness accounts, oral histories, letters, diaries, artifacts, photographs, maps, artworks, and architecture.
Generate resourceStudents distinguish fact from fiction by comparing documentary sources on historical figures and events with fictionalized characters and events.
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