Alabama Social Studies SS24.HS.8a
The Standard
- SS24.HS.8
- Utilize various historical methods to acquire information on the selected subject and relate findings to the research question created.
Compare historical evidence to previous interpretations and corroborate salient facts and theories.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies · Culminating Project
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students compare an account of a historical event with documents from the time and another account. They check which key facts and explanations the sources support, challenge, or leave uncertain.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can point to two sources that support a claim. They can explain a disagreement between sources without treating an uncertain claim as fact.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat a vivid image or one eyewitness account as proof. They may assume two accounts agree just because both describe the same event.
How to Assess It
- Give students Revere’s Boston Massacre engraving, two short witness excerpts, and a textbook paragraph. Ask them to name one textbook claim the sources support and one the sources leave in doubt.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Hand pairs Revere’s engraving, two witness excerpts, and a textbook paragraph; have them highlight claims that appear in more than one source.
Ask students to write: Where does Revere’s engraving differ from a witness account, and what might explain the difference?
Play claim sort with Boston Massacre cards: students place claims under supported, disputed, or unproven, then cite a source.
Print an election results table, a news recap, and a candidate’s post; have students check one vote-count claim against both records.
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Related Standards
- SS24.CWI.1c
Relate current news stories to past events and broader historical trends.
- SS24.HS.8
Utilize various historical methods to acquire information on the selected subject and relate findings to the research question created.
- SS24.HS.6
Compare historical methods utilized for research and evaluate how these methods yield information regarding the selected historical subject.
- SS24.HS.9
Present and defend the results of their interpretations and conclusions.
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