Florida SS.8.A.1.3
The Standard
Analyze current events relevant to American History topics through a variety of electronic and print media resources.
Florida Next Generation Sunshine State Standards for Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students connect a current event to a related topic in American history. They compare print and electronic coverage, check source reliability, and identify evidence, perspective, and bias.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students explain a clear historical connection using accurate details from several sources. They judge each source's reliability and note meaningful differences in coverage.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat the first search result as reliable or confuse opinion with evidence. They may make a shallow historical connection based only on a shared person, place, or term.
How to Assess It
- Give students two short reports about one current event. Ask them to name a related historical topic and cite one reliable detail from each report.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups printed articles and website screenshots, then have them label author, date, evidence, intended audience, and signs of bias.
Ask students to write: How does this event echo or differ from one event in American history? Use two sourced details.
Play Source Reliability Relay, where teams rank source cards and defend each ranking with evidence about authorship, date, purpose, and support.
Compare local news coverage of a voting, protest, immigration, or court issue with a newspaper report from a related historical period.
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Related Standards
- SS.8.A.4.3
Examine the experiences and perspectives of significant individuals and groups during this era of American History.
- SS.8.A.1.6
Compare interpretations of key events and issues throughout American History.
- SS.8.A.1
Use research and inquiry skills to analyze American History using primary and secondary sources.
- SS.2.A.1.2
Utilize the media center, technology, or other informational sources to locate information that provides answers to questions about a historical topic.
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