History Standard One - Grades 6-8

Sample Activities

Employing different calendar systems (Gregorian, Islamic, Hebraic, Chinese, etc.) to create alternate time-lines of significant events in world history, students would offer reasons why the differences in the ways that cultures record time might affect perception of events [Chronology; analysis; content].

Students might race movements of pastoral peoples (e.g. the Hebrews, Turks, Huns, or Mongols) by examining references to them in the chronologies of other peoples, and use these references to build a time-line specifically for the group chosen [Chronology].

This activity could easily incorporate a mapping activity consistent with Geography Standard One

to History Standard One.