Students explain how major events are related to one another in time.
Students construct various timelines of key events, people, and periods of the historical era they are studying. Students use a variety of maps and document to identify physical and cultural features of neighborhoods, cities, states, and countries and to explain the historical migration of people, expansion and disintegration of empires, and growth of economic systems. Research, Evidence, and Point of View Students frame question that can be answered by historical study and research. Students distinguish fact from opinion in historical narratives and stories Students distinguish relevant from irrelevant information, essential from incidental information, and verifiable fro unverifiable information in historical narratives and stories. Students assess the credibility of primary and secondary sources and draw sound conclusions from them.