Alabama Social Studies SS24.7.4a
The Standard
- SS24.7.4
- Explain how artifacts and other archaeological findings provide evidence of the nature and movement of prehistoric groups of people.
Differentiate among primary, secondary, and tertiary sources in how they are used to study both history and geography.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students tell firsthand evidence from later explanations and quick-reference summaries. They choose sources that help answer questions about where people lived and how they lived there.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student labels an excavator's site map primary, a researcher's explanation of settlement patterns secondary, and an encyclopedia entry tertiary. They use the map to check artifact locations, the explanation to consider why homes clustered, and the entry to find the site's location.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may call any old book primary, even when it retells earlier findings. They may assume every map is primary or treat an encyclopedia summary as firsthand evidence.
How to Assess It
- Show an excavator's site map, an archaeologist's explanation of house locations, and an encyclopedia entry on the site. Ask students to name each source type and write one question each could answer.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs an excavation sketch, a researcher's settlement map, and an encyclopedia entry to sort and label with one use each.
Ask, 'Why might an excavator's map and a later article disagree about a village's size?' Have students point to evidence in both.
Play source match with a field photograph, settlement analysis, and reference entry; teams pair each with a question it can answer.
Use an online museum's artifact photo, curator essay, and visitor guide to plan a Neolithic exhibit visit and compare their uses.
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Related Standards
- SS24.HS.5
Differentiate between primary and secondary sources on the subject and evaluate the quality of evidence each type yields.
- SS24.HS.2
Analyze secondary sources related to the selected topic in history.
- SS24.1.11
Differentiate between primary and secondary sources.
- SS24.HS.4
Locate and utilize a variety of primary sources related to the selected historical subject.
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