Georgia SS1G1

SS1G1 is a Georgia social studies standard. These are the elements under it.

• SS1G1.aAmerican colonies (Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson)
• SS1G1.bAmerican frontier (Lewis & Clark and Sacagawea)
• SS1G1.cNational Parks (Theodore Roosevelt)
• SS1G1.dSouthern U.S. (George Washington Carver and Ruby Bridges)

01

What Students Need to Do

Students connect each figure’s actions and contributions to the conditions of the period and location where the person lived. They use details such as laws, land, tools, transportation, and local problems to explain why the figure acted as they did.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

A student can name a figure, identify a relevant feature of that person’s time or place, and explain the effect using because. The explanation includes a correct detail, not just a date or map label.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may treat time as a clock reading and place as only a map label. They may assume historical figures had modern laws, roads, phones, or choices. They may name a contribution without explaining how the setting shaped it.

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How to Assess It

Exit ticket: “Harriet Tubman was born enslaved in Maryland, where slavery was legal. How did that time and place influence her actions?” Students write or dictate one sentence using because.

1. 01

   Give pairs figure, setting, challenge, and contribution cards, then have them build matching chains and explain one connection.

2. 02

   Ask, “How did Harriet Tubman’s time and place shape what she did?” Students answer with because and one picture clue.

3. 03

   Play Time, Place, or Both: read a fact, and students hold up the matching label before naming its effect.

4. 04

   Compare a local map and travel options with Lewis and Clark’s route, then list how location changed each trip.

• SS2CG3

  Give examples of how the historical figures in SS2H1 demonstrate positive citizenship traits such as: honesty, dependability, trustworthiness, honor, civility, ...

• SS2G2.c

  Describe how the region in which these historic figures lived affected their lives and compare these regions to the region in which students live.

• SS1CG1

  Describe how the historical figures in SS1H1a display positive character traits such as: fairness, respect for others, respect for the environment, courage, equ...

• SS1H1.b

  Describe how everyday life of these historical figures is similar to and different from everyday life in the present (for example: food, clothing, homes, transp...