Alabama Social Studies SS24.HS.3

SS24.HS.3 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• SS24.HS.3a

  Describe different methods of historical preservation, and identify examples of these methods.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students describe ways people save buildings, documents, and firsthand accounts, and give an example of each. They explain how those choices affect what people remember about the past.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

A student can identify a restored building and a recorded interview as different preservation methods. They can explain what each keeps available and whose perspective might still be missing.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may think a historic marker preserves a building, when it preserves an account of the place. They may assume a plaque tells the whole story and overlook people it leaves out.

04

How to Assess It

Exit ticket: A town restores a closed school and records a former student's interview. Name both preservation methods and explain how each could shape what people remember about the school.

1. 01

   Give groups a school photo and index cards; have them make an exhibit with a restoration plan, archive label, and interview question.

2. 02

   Compare two plaque drafts, 'A church was bombed' and 'Four girls were killed at 16th Street Baptist Church'; ask what each leaves out.

3. 03

   Read four cards aloud: restore a courthouse, scan letters, record an interview, erect a plaque; teams name each method and its limits.

4. 04

   Find a local historic marker online; list whose story it tells and whose story you would seek through an interview.

• SS24.HS.9a

  Describe ways in which public historians present history to audiences.

• SS24.HS.1a

  Identify and explain examples of how the historical subject is currently represented.

• SS24.HS.1

  Describe how a selected historical subject is currently remembered or regarded, explaining how historical memory contributes to current thinking about the event...