Standards
Enduring Understandings - important ideas that students should carry
with them years beyond the instruction received this year.
- Chronology organizes history and
increases understanding of historical relationships.
- Cause and effect relationships explain
connections among people and events.
- Using data, events in history can be
analyzed from multiple perspectives.
- Societies are diverse and change over
time.
- Economic, scientific and technological
developments impact human interactions.
Essential Questions - most important “big picture” questions
students should be able to answer after completing learning activities.
- How can events during Reconstruction be
organized chronologically?
- What were the causes and effects of the
Reconstruction?
- How can events in history be analyzed
from multiple perspectives?
- How can events during this period be
analyzed from multiple perspectives?
- How did cultures of the Native Americans
and settlers lead to change over time?
- Which scientific/ technological
development(s) had the greatest impact on human interactions?
Standards and Benchmarks
Standard H1: Students understand the chronological organization of history
and know how to organize events and people into major eras to identify and
explain historical relationships.
Standard H2: Students know how to use the processes and resources of
historical inquiry.
Benchmark A: Students know how to formulate questions and hypotheses
regarding what happened in the past and how to obtain and analyze historical
data to answer questions and test hypotheses.
Benchmark B: Students know how to interpret and evaluate primary and
secondary sources of historical information.
Benchmark C: Students apply knowledge of the past to analyze present day
issues and events from multiple, historically objective perspectives.
Standard H3: Students understand that societies are diverse and change over
time.
Benchmark A: Students know how various societies were affected by contracts
and exchanges among diverse peoples.
Benchmark B: Students understand the history of social organization in
various
societies.
Standard H4: Students understand how science, technology and economic
activity have developed, changed affected societies throughout history.
Benchmark A: Students understand the impact of scientific and technological
developments on individuals and societies.
Benchmark B: Students understand how economic factors influenced historical
events
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