Alabama Social Studies SS24.K.10

SS24.K.10 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• SS24.K.10a

  Differentiate among broad categories of time, including long ago, yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

01

What Students Need to Do

Children put events in order using a picture schedule, a calendar, and a simple timeline. They tell whether something happened long ago or yesterday, happens today, or will happen tomorrow.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

Given a school-day schedule, they say what comes before and after lunch. They point to yesterday, today, and tomorrow on a calendar and place an old school photo before recent events on a timeline.

03

Common Misconceptions

Children may call something that happened years ago “yesterday” because it happened before today. They may place tomorrow before today when arranging picture cards.

04

How to Assess It

Circle Tuesday on a calendar. Give children four cards showing children writing on slates long ago, planting seeds on Monday, watering them on Tuesday, and checking them on Wednesday. Ask them to put the cards in order and label each one long ago, yesterday, today, or tomorrow.

1. 01

   Have pairs tape arrival, snack, recess, and dismissal picture cards onto a paper strip in the order they happen.

2. 02

   Show an old schoolhouse photo and ask, “Was this yesterday or long ago? What clues can you see?”

3. 03

   Play calendar hop: circle today, then have children point to yesterday and tomorrow as you name each.

4. 04

   Check a local weather forecast, then draw today’s weather and tomorrow’s forecast in the matching calendar boxes.

• SS24.7.3

  Analyze how historians organize human history and events, including the use of calendars.

• SS24.2.11

  Describe segments of time, including year, decade, and century.

• SS24.1.10

  Construct calendars, timelines, and daily schedules.

• SS24.7.3a

  Describe multiple methods for organizing and labeling periods of time, including differentiating between the BC/AD and BCE/CE notations.