Standards for Learning About Communities through Funerary Material Culture

Explain points of agreement experts have about interpretations and applications of disciplinary concepts and ideas associated with a compelling question.

Explain points of agreement experts have about interpretations and applications of disciplinary concepts and ideas associated with a supporting question.

Determine the kinds of sources that will be helpful in answering compelling and supporting questions, taking into consideration multiple points of views represented in sources.

Compare historical and contemporary means of changing societies, and promoting the common good.

Explain how cultural patterns and economic decisions influence environments and the daily lives of people in both nearby and distant places.

Use questions generated about multiple historical sources to identify further areas of inquiry and additional sources.

Analyze multiple factors that influenced the perspectives of people during different historical eras.

Analyze how people's perspectives influenced what information is available in the historical sources they created.

Research to Build and Present Knowledge: Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration.