2020 Colorado Academic Standards Online
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clear Content Area: Social Studies // Grade Level: First Grade // Standard Category: 1. History
Social Studies
First Grade, Standard 1. History
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Prepared Graduates:
- 1. Understand the nature of historical knowledge as a process of inquiry that examines and analyzes how history is viewed, constructed, and interpreted.
Grade Level Expectation:
1. Ask questions and discuss ideas about patterns and chronological order of events from the past.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Arrange life events in chronological order.
- Use words related to time, sequence, and change. For example: past, present, future, change, first, next, and last.
- Identify the organizational components of a calendar. For example: year, months, weeks, days, and notable events.
- Determine events from the past, present, and future using the components of a calendar.
- Distinguish between primary and secondary sources.
- Identify information from primary and/or secondary sources that answer questions about patterns and chronological order of events from the past.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills:
- Recognize and describe cause-and-effect relationships and patterns from the past. (Entrepreneurial Skills: Inquiry/Analysis)
- Demonstrate curiosity about patterns from the past. (Entrepreneurial Skills: Creativity/Innovation)
Inquiry Questions:
- Why is it important to know the order of events?
- How do we organize time?
- What has happened in your life and what does that tell you about yourself?
Nature and Skills of History:
- Historical thinkers examine change and/or continuity over a period of time.
- Historical thinkers record events in sequential order to increase understanding, see relationships, understand cause and effect, and organize information.
- Cultural groups use similar tools for the organization of sequential information in order to communicate in a clear manner.
Disciplinary, Information, and Media Literacy:
- Apply disciplinary concepts of change and continuity to the study of the past.
- Read and/or listen to historical fiction.
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Prepared Graduates:
- 2. Analyze historical time periods and patterns of continuity and change, through multiple perspectives, within and among cultures and societies.
Grade Level Expectation:
2. The diverse perspectives and traditions of families from many cultures have shaped the United States.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Identify similarities and differences between themselves and others.
- Discuss common and unique characteristics of different cultures using multiple sources of information.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills:
- Compare one's attitudes and beliefs to others. (Civic/Interpersonal Skills: Global/Cultural Awareness).
- Identify and explain several cultural perspectives that constitute our diverse society. (Civic/Interpersonal Skills: Global/Cultural Awareness)
Inquiry Questions:
- What symbols are representative of our multicultural and democratic way of life?
- What is a culture?
- How are these cultures different and similar to one another?
Nature and Skills of History:
- Historical thinkers understand the importance of comparing and contrasting to identify patterns within and between cultures.
- Historical thinkers use sources to make interpretations about cultural groups from the past.
- Historical thinkers recognize symbols as cultural artifacts that can be interpreted to make meaning of both the past and present.
- Historical thinkers compare multiple perspectives of people and groups of people in order to draw conclusions about both the past and the present.
Disciplinary, Information, and Media Literacy:
- Apply disciplinary concept of perspective-taking to the study of the past.
- Identify self-perspective.
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