History and Inventors
Grade Level: 2nd Grade
Subject: Social Studies
Time Frame: 4 weeks (Quarter 2)
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Big Understandings
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- ask questions and discuss ideas taken from primary and secondary sources
- people of various cultures influence neighborhoods and communities over time
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Essential Questions
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- how can two people understand the same event differently?
- why is it important to use more than one source for information?
- how can putting events in order by time help describe the past?
- what kinds of tools and sources do historical thinkers use to investigate the past?
- what are the cultural attributes of a neighborhood or community?
- how can understanding the past impact decision-making today?
- how have events and ideas from the past shaped the identify of communities and neighborhoods today?
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By the end of the unit, students will be able to:
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- explain that the nature of history involves stories of the past preserved in various sources
- explain the past through primary and secondary sources (images, and oral or written accounts)
- explain the information conveyed by historical timelines
- identify community and regional historical artifacts and generate questions about their functions and significance
- create timelines to understand the development of important community traditions and events
- organize historical events of neighborhoods and/or communities chronologically
- compare and contrast neighborhoods and/or communities, both past and present, through their people and events
- give examples of people and events that brought important changes to a neighborhood and/or community
- compare and contrast the differences within one neighborhood and/or community
- analyze the interactions and contributions of various people and cultures that have lived in or migrated to neighborhoods and/or communities
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Topics:
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â—¦ Identify historical sources (timelines, artifacts, and documents)
â—¦ Discuss historical story of community
â—¦ Utilize tools of a historian
â—¦ Research people who have had an influence on a neighborhood and community
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Standards
SS.2.1.1
SS.2.1.2