Idaho Social Studies 1.SS.1.3

Social Studies1st GradeHistory

The Standard

Compare personal histories, pictures, and music of other selected times and places in America’s past.

Idaho Content Standards: K-12 Social Studies

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students share a memory from their own lives, such as a first day of school. They compare it with children's stories, photos, and music from other times and places in the United States.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student names one way two children's lives were alike and one way they differed. They use details from a story, photo, or song clip to explain their answer.
Common Misconceptions: Some children think every old photo comes from the same time, or that black-and-white photos mean the world had no color. Others assume one child's story shows how everyone lived in that place.
How to Assess It: Show a dated 1930s Iowa school photo and a dated 1960s New York school photo. Ask, 'What is one thing alike and one thing different? Point to what you see.'

Lesson moves

Give pairs dated 1930s Iowa and 1960s New York school photos; have them mark one shared detail and one difference with sticky notes.
Ask pupils to draw their first day of school, then compare their drawing with a short memory from a child in the past.
Play two labeled song clips from different decades; pupils match each clip's date card to a dated photo and name one sound they heard.
Show a dated local school photo from the public library website; pupils sketch the school today and label one change.

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