History Standard Two - Grades K-3

Sample Activity

Given a collection of toys, games, and children's literature from another time, students might be asked to draw conclusions about the lives and activities of children living then [Analysis; content]

Parent Partnership Project: Students might collect the items for the activity listed above from parents or grandparents, including explanations of rules or usage.

Viewing a collection of old photographs, maps, or aerial photographs from the local area of school building, students could be asked to identify changes in clothing, building styles, land use, and technology which have occurred since the photos were taken [Analysis].

Students might be given a "history box" containing artifacts belonging to a specified time, and asked to make deductions concerning the function and form of the objects and what they tell us about life in the past [Analysis].

Students could construct a time capsule in which they place artifacts and documents which they feel would serve as an accurate guide to life in the late twentieth century for future students [Analysis; interpretation].

Students might listen to examples of popular dance music from various periods and attempt to place them in chronological sequence [Analysis].

Given one type of technology (methods of measuring time; transportation modes; lighting, etc.), students might be asked to first place them in chronological order, and then to discuss ways in which each particular item might have affected everyday life in a given period [Analysis; chronology].

Science Standard One would also support this activity.

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