Standards
Students 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Generate resourceStudents pose relevant questions about events they encounter in historical documents, eyewitness accounts, oral histories, letters, diaries, artifacts, photographs, maps, artworks, and architecture.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.
Generate resourceFollow rules, such as sharing and taking turns, and know the consequences of breaking them.
Generate resourceLearn examples of honesty, courage, determination, individual responsibility, and patriotism in American and world history from stories and folklore.
Generate resourceKnow beliefs and related behaviors of characters in stories from times past and understand the consequences of the characters' actions.
Generate resourceStudents recognize national and state symbols and icons such as the national and state flags, the bald eagle, and the Statue of Liberty.
Generate resourceStudents match simple descriptions of work that people do and the names of related jobs at the school, in the local community, and from historical accounts.
Generate resourceStudents compare and contrast the locations of people, places, and environments and describe their characteristics.
Generate resourceDetermine the relative locations of objects using the terms near/far, left/right, and behind/in front.
Generate resourceDistinguish between land and water on maps and globes and locate general areas referenced in historical legends and stories.
Generate resourceIdentify traffic symbols and map symbols (e.g., those for land, water, roads, cities).
Generate resourceConstruct maps and models of neighborhoods, incorporating such structures as police and fire stations, airports, banks, hospitals, supermarkets, harbors, schools, homes, places of worship, and transportation lines.
Generate resourceDemonstrate familiarity with the school's layout, environs, and the jobs people do there.
Generate resourceStudents put events in temporal order using a calendar, placing days, weeks, and months in proper order.
Generate resourceStudents understand that history relates to events, people, and places of other times.
Generate resourceIdentify the purposes of, and the people and events honored in, commemorative holidays, including the human struggles that were the basis for the events (e.g., Thanksgiving, Independence Day, Washington's and Lincoln's Birthdays, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Memorial Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day).
Generate resourceKnow the triumphs in American legends and historical accounts through the stories of such people as Pocahontas, George Washing-ton, Booker T. Washington, Daniel Boone, and Benjamin Franklin.
Generate resourceUnderstand how people lived in earlier times and how their lives would be different today (e.g., getting water from a well, growing food, making clothing, having fun, forming organizations, living by rules and laws).
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