History / Social Science Standards 2000
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History Standards 2000

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National Standards for History, National Center for History in the Schools, 1996

Standard 1: Chronological Thinking

A. Distinguish between past, present, and future time.
C. Establish temporal order in constructing historical narratives of their own.
E. Interpret data presented in time lines.
F. Reconstruct patterns of historical succession and duration.
Standard 2: Historical Comprehension
G. Draw upon visual, literary, and musical sources.

Standard 4: Historical Analysis and Interpretation
B. Obtain historical data.California Academic Standards
California: A Changing State, Grade 4

California Academic Standards: Historical and Social Sciences Analysis Skills

Students in grades 1-5 demonstrate the following intellectual reasoning, reflection and research skills.

Chronological and Spatial Thinking

2. Students apply terms related to time correctly, including past, present, future, decade, century and     generation.
3. Students 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.
    Research, Evidence and Point of View
1. Students differentiate between primary and secondary sources.
    Historical Interpretation
1. Students summarize the key events of the era they are studying and explain their historical contexts of     those events.