Alabama Social Studies SS24.HS.9a
The Standard
- SS24.HS.9
- Present and defend the results of their interpretations and conclusions.
Describe ways in which public historians present history to audiences.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies · Culminating Project
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify ways museums, historical markers, podcasts, and digital exhibits share history with the public. They explain how objects, images, recorded voices, and short text help tell a story.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Given a marker and a museum exhibit, a student can name each format and identify its likely audience. They can point to a specific choice, such as a photograph or short caption, and explain why it fits that audience.
Common Misconceptions
- Some students think historians only write books for scholars. Others treat a museum label or historical marker as a complete, neutral account and miss whose voices are absent.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: A courthouse plaque lists dates and names. A museum display pairs a photograph with a witness quote. Name both formats and explain how each reaches its audience.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a dated historic photograph and source note; have them write a museum label and a roadside marker caption for different audiences.
Ask students to write: How would a museum label and a 60-second podcast tell the story of the same photograph differently?
Make cards labeled museum label, marker, podcast, and digital exhibit; students match each to an audience card and defend one match.
Open a nearby museum's website; students find one exhibit page and list two choices made to reach visitors.
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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.3a
Describe different methods of historical preservation, and identify examples of these methods.
- SS24.HS.2c
Apply the concept of historiography through contrasting how various historians have interpreted the historical subject.
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