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Standard 6.1
Social Studies Skills
All students will utilize historical thinking, problem solving, and
research skills to maximize their understanding of civics, history,
geography and economics. |
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Big Idea:
The development of social studies skills enables learners to apply
the concept of time, location, distance, relationships and points of
view to the study of contemporary and past peoples, places, issues
and events. |
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6.1. A Social Studies Skills -
For Further information on
5.1, See Page 21 of New Jersey's Social Studies Framework |
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Essential Questions |
Enduring Understandings |
- Whose point of view matters?
- How do you locate legitimate sources?
- How are present events related to past events? |
- There are varying perspectives on the meaning
of historical events.
- There are credible and questionable sources of information about
historical and contemporary events.
- Historians establish justifiable timelines to connect significant
events. |
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Cumulative Progress
Indicators |
Comments and Examples |
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1.
Explain how
present events are connected to the past. |
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2.
Apply terms related to time including years, decades, centuries,
and generations. |
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3.
Locate sources
for the same information (e.g., weather forecast on TV, the Internet or in a
newspaper). |
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4.
Organize events
in a time line. |
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5.
Distinguish between an eyewitness account and a secondary account
of an event. |
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6.
Distinguish fact from fiction. |
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For Further information on
5.1, See Page 21 of New Jersey's Social Studies Framework
Link to Standard 6.1 Grade K-2
Link to Standard 6.1 Grade 5-8
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