Florida SS.1.A.2

SS.1.A.2 is a Florida social studies standard. These are the benchmarks under it.

• SS.1.A.2.1

  Understand that history tells the story of people and events of other times and places.

• SS.1.A.2.2

  Compare life now with life in the past.

• SS.1.A.2.3

  Identify celebrations and national holidays as a way of remembering and honoring past events, our nation's ethnic heritage, and the heroism and achievements of ...

• SS.1.A.2.4

  Identify people from the past who have shown character ideals and principles including honesty, courage, and responsibility.

• SS.1.A.2.5

  Distinguish between historical fact and fiction using various materials.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students describe people, events, and daily life from the past. They place events in order, compare past and present, and use pictures or objects as evidence.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

A student can identify what happened first, next, and last in a simple history. The student can name changes over time and point to clues that support an answer.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may think every old story is true or that all past events happened at the same time. They may judge an object's age by condition instead of historical clues.

04

How to Assess It

Show one old classroom photograph and one current photograph. Ask students to circle the older image, name two clues, and describe one change.

1. 01

   Give pairs old and modern household item pictures to sort, then have them explain the clues used for each choice.

2. 02

   Show a historic playground photograph and ask, "What is the same, what is different, and what clues support your ideas?"

3. 03

   Play a first, next, last card game using three pictures from a familiar historical event or classroom timeline.

4. 04

   Have students interview an older adult about school, then draw one way school life has changed and one way it stayed the same.

• SS.K.A.2

  The Kindergarten version of this standard.

• SS.5.A.1

  Historical Inquiry and Analysis

• SS.2.A.2

  The 2nd Grade version of this standard.

• SS.4.A.1

  Historical Inquiry and Analysis