Idaho Social Studies 5.SS.1.2
The Standard
Identify significant individuals who have been responsible for bringing about cultural and social changes in the United States including the founding fathers and presidents.
Idaho Content Standards: K-12 Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify founders, presidents, and other people who helped change life in the United States. They connect a specific action each person took to a change in rights, government, or everyday life.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student explains that George Washington stepping down set an example for future presidents, and Rosa Parks's arrest helped spark a bus boycott. They use facts to explain each connection and recognize that many people worked for change.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think every founder became president. They may also credit one person with a change that took years of work by many people.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Pick a founder or president and one other U.S. change maker. For each, name one action and the change it helped bring about.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs name, action, and change cards for Washington, Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony, and Rosa Parks to sort into matching sets.
Read short accounts of Washington leaving office and Parks's arrest, then ask: What changed afterward, and who else helped?
Play a matching game with short source excerpts, people's names, and the changes their actions helped bring about.
Compare a 1955 segregated bus photo with a current transit agency's nondiscrimination policy, then discuss what bus boycotters helped change.
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