History-Social+Studies

= INTRODUCTION TO HISTORY-SOCIAL STUDIES = This will lay the foundation of history as a collection of **stories** about the past, with an emphasis on making **connections** to similar issues today. We will explore what “**ancient**” means and the ways we have of finding out what happened so long ago. We will also begin learning what to do when we encounter **new words** or concepts and how to work with **non-fiction** text/materials.

WEB RESOURCES
Why Study History? The History Guide Best of History Websites: Ancient History General Resources SCORE: General 6th Grade H/SS Resources

Historical and Social Sciences Analysis Skills
The intellectual skills noted below are to be learned through, and applied to, the content standards for grades six through eight. They are to be assessed // with // the content standards in grades six through eight. // In addition to the standards for grades six through eight, students demonstrate the following intellectual reasoning, reflection, and research skills: //
 * History-Social Science Content Standards: Grades Six Through Eight **

Chronological and Spatial Thinking (Setting/Context/Plot/Events)

 * 1) Students **explain** how major events are related to one another in time.
 * 2) Students **construct** various time lines of key events, people, and periods of the historical era they are studying.
 * 3) Students **use** a variety of maps and documents to **identify** physical and cultural features of neighborhoods, cities, states, and countries and to **explain** the historical migration of people, expansion and disintegration of empires, and the growth of economic systems.

Research, Evidence, and Point of View

 * 1) Students **frame** questions that can be answered by historical study and research.
 * 2) Students **distinguish** fact from opinion in historical narratives and stories.
 * 3) Students **distinguish** relevant from irrelevant information, essential from incidental information, and verifiable from unverifiable information in historical narratives and stories.
 * 4) Students **assess** the credibility of primary and secondary sources and **draw** sound conclusions from them.
 * 5) Students **detect** the different historical points of view on historical events and **determine** the context in which the historical statements were made (the questions asked, sources used, author's perspectives).

Historical Interpretation

 * 1) Students **explain** the central issues and problems from the past, placing people and events in a matrix of time and place.
 * 2) Students **understand** and **distinguish** cause, effect, sequence, and correlation in historical events, including the long-and short-term causal relations.
 * 3) Students **explain** the sources of historical continuity and how the combination of ideas and events explains the emergence of new patterns.
 * 4) Students **recognize** the role of chance, oversight, and error in history.
 * 5) Students **recognize** that interpretations of history are subject to change as new information is uncovered.
 * 6) Students **interpret** basic indicators of economic performance and **conduct** cost-benefit analyses of economic and political issues.