They are to be assessed only in conjunction with the content standards in kindergarten through grade five. Students correctly apply terms related to time, including past, present, future, decade, century, and generation. 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. Students 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. Research, Evidence, and Point of View 1.
Students differentiate between primary and secondary sources.
Students pose relevant questions about events they encounter in historical documents, eyewitness accounts, oral histories, letters, diaries, artifacts, photographs, maps, artworks, and architecture. Students distinguish fact from fiction by comparing documentary sources on historical figures and events with fictionalized characters and events. Studying the cause, course, and consequences of the early explorations through the War for Independence and western expansion is central to students fundamental understanding of how the principles of the American republic form the basis of a pluralistic society in which individual rights are secured. Geography is of special significance in the development of the human story. Continued emphasis is placed on the everyday lives, problems, and accomplishments of people, their role in developing social, economic, and political structures, as well as in establishing and spreading ideas that helped transform the world forever.