History Standard Three - Grades K-3

Sample Activity

Student might be given several artifacts or documents concerning an historical event form which they would have to create a story consistent with their sources. Then students would be given an additional piece of source material and asked to modify their story to account for its presence. This could be repeated several times, and then students would be asked to compare their first effort with the last one [Interpretation].

After studying the life of a famous person from the past, students could be asked to pack a pouch with objects which would suggest important attributes or accomplishments of that person, and make an oral presentation supporting their choices [Interpretation].

Students might be given a bag of "evidence" gathered in a mock-trial of Goldilocks or Jack (of the Beanstalk) for trespassing and destruction of property. They would have to interpret whether or not a case could be made for the character's guilt or innocence based on that evidence [Interpretation].

Such an activity connects with Civics Standard One.

After reading or listening to stories about families in other times and cultures, students might first create a list of the major differences between their own families and those in the story, and then create their own stories about what life might have been like had they been born in a foreign country or another time [Interpretation; content]

to History Standard Three.