education standards

Describe ways in which people benefit from and are challenged by working together, including through government, workplaces, voluntary organizations, and families.

Describe how communities work to accomplish common tasks, establish responsibilities, and fulfill roles of authority.

Create and use a chronological sequence of related events to compare developments that happened at the same time.

Evaluate how historical events and developments were shaped by unique circumstances of time and place as well as broader historical contexts.

Create a chronological sequence of multiple events.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Explain how specific images (e.g., a diagram showing how a machine works) contribute to and clarify a text.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g., where, when, why, and how key events occur).

Craft and Structure: Describe the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text or part of a text.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Integrate visual information (e.g., in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts.

Analyze historical, contemporary, and emerging means of changing societies, promoting the common good, and protecting rights.

Use questions generated about individuals and groups to analyze why they, and the developments they shaped, are seen as historically significant.

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

Analyze complex and interacting factors that influenced the perspectives of people during different historical eras.

Analyze how historical contexts shaped and continue to shape people's perspectives.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., visually, quantitatively, as well as in words) in order to address a question or solve a problem.

Key Ideas and Details: Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, connecting insights gained from specific details to an understanding of the text as a whole.

Key Ideas and Details: Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary that makes clear the relationships among the key details and ideas.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Integrate information from diverse sources, both primary and secondary, into a coherent understanding of an idea or event, noting discrepancies among sources.

Key Ideas and Details: Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources.

Key Ideas and Details: Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of the source distinct from prior knowledge or opinions.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Analyze the relationship between a primary and secondary source on the same topic.

Key Ideas and Details: Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, attending to such features as the date and origin of the information.

Key Ideas and Details: Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of how key events or ideas develop over the course of the text.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Compare and contrast treatments of the same topic in several primary and secondary sources.

Summarize the central claim in a secondary work of history.

Compare the central arguments in secondary works of history on related topics in multiple media.

Analyze the relationship between historical sources and the secondary interpretations made from them.

Identify facts and concepts associated with a supporting question.

Explain how rules and laws change society and how people change rules and laws.

Assess specific rules and laws (both actual and proposed) as means of addressing public problems.

Illustrate historical and contemporary means of changing society.

Explain how all people, not just official leaders, play important roles in a community.

Create and use a chronological sequence of related events to compare developments that happened at the same time.

Explain probable causes and effects of events and developments.