Alabama Social Studies SS24.HS.3a
The Standard
- SS24.HS.3
- Explain how historic preservation has been or can be used to impact historical memory of the subject.
Describe different methods of historical preservation, and identify examples of these methods.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies · Subject Survey
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how people protect old objects, documents, and memories. They name methods such as careful storage, digitizing, conservation, and recording oral histories, then give an example of each.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can match a torn flag with conservation and a witness's memories with a recorded interview. They can explain that scanning a letter saves its contents but does not protect the original paper.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think scanning a document also protects the original. They may call any story about the past an oral history, even when no witness was interviewed.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: A town has a cracked 1900s sign and a former mill worker willing to talk. Name one preservation method for each and explain what it saves.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a photocopy of an old newspaper clipping; have them photograph it, name the digital file, and store the paper copy in a folder.
Ask: Would you scan a torn family letter or repair it first? Students write two sentences explaining what each choice protects.
Match cards showing a brittle letter, torn flag, and witness's memories with archival storage, conservation, and a recorded interview.
Open the Library of Congress online collections; students choose a scanned letter and list what its image shows and what it cannot protect.
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Related Standards
- SS24.HS.3
Explain how historic preservation has been or can be used to impact historical memory of the subject.
- SS24.HS.9b
Evaluate the effectiveness of different methods of presenting historical findings to an audience.
- SS24.HS.9a
Describe ways in which public historians present history to audiences.
- SS24.HS.6
Compare historical methods utilized for research and evaluate how these methods yield information regarding the selected historical subject.
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