Alabama Social Studies SS24.P.10

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

• SS24.P.10a

  Compare ways memories are stored in the brain, including episodic and procedural, and explain how information is retrieved, reconstructed, or misremembered.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students explain how attention and meaning help encode information for storage and later retrieval. They compare memories of events with memories of learned skills. They use a mnemonic and explain how expectations can change what people remember.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

A student can tell the difference between remembering a bike ride and knowing how to ride a bike. They can explain how a photo might bring back the event, while expectations might change a detail. They can make a mnemonic and use it to recall a short list.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may think memory plays back events like a video. They may confuse remembering an event with knowing how to do a skill. They may think a mnemonic makes information permanent without practice.

04

How to Assess It

Exit ticket: A student recalls a birthday party after seeing a photo but cannot remember its date; they can still ride a bike. Name the two kinds of memory, explain what the photo does, and give one detail the student might misremember.

1. 01

   Give pairs 12 word cards to sort by theme, then hide the cards and have students write what they recall.

2. 02

   Write: 'My friend and I remember our first day of school differently. How might our expectations shape each account?'

3. 03

   Give teams six errands, have them make a mnemonic, wait two minutes, then recall the errands without the list.

4. 04

   Ask students to compare remembering yesterday's lunch with knowing how to tie a shoe, then name when each memory helps them.

• SS24.HS.3

  Explain how historic preservation has been or can be used to impact historical memory of the subject.

• 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...

• SS24.P.5

  Describe the structure, biochemistry, and circuitry of the brain and nervous system, and explain their roles in human behavior and mental processes.*