History Standard One - Grades K-3

Sample Activities

Students might record temperature readings, as well as observations of clouds and weather conditions over several months and draw conclusions about general trends based on their observations [Chronology].

This activity connects with Math Standard Two (Communications) and Science Standard Four (Atmospheric Dynamics)

After reading a folk tale, biography, or historical narrative, students could be asked to retell or dramatize the story with the events in the correct sequence [Chronology].

This activity connects with the English/Language Arts Standard Four (Literary Knowledge).

Given a written schedule for a professional or school sports team, students might construct a travel itinerary for the team. using a map of North America and an atlas, the students could then plot the probable travel route for the team over a two-week period [Chronology].

This activity can be closely tied in with Geography Standard One.

Given a set of photographs of the same community taken from the same vantage point at twenty-year intervals, students would examine them in order to make a list of changes which occurred between each picture and speculate how their lives might have been different during any of the periods represented [Chronology; analysis].

Students might use a written schedule of classroom activities to help them predict what a visitor could expect to see if she visited the classroom on a randomly chosen day at any given hour [Chronology].

Students might compile a schedule of planned events during after-school hours for the course of a week (TV shows-when they are on; family trips and events) [Chronology].

This activity would coordinate easily with a geography activity which required the students to race on a map the various trips taken in the course of a week.

to History Standard One.