Idaho Social Studies 6-12.HT2.9
The Standard
Evaluate the central arguments in secondary works of history on related topics in multiple media in terms of their historical accuracy.
Idaho Content Standards: K-12 Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students find the main argument in a written history account and a video about the same event. They check the claims against historical records and explain where each account is accurate or misleading.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can state each account’s main argument and use a dated source to support or challenge a key claim. They can tell a factual error from a difference in interpretation.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may trust a documentary because it shows old footage, or trust an article because it includes dates. They may also mistake a missing detail for a false claim.
How to Assess It
- Show a short article excerpt and a two-minute documentary clip about the Montgomery bus boycott. Give students a 1955 boycott leaflet and ask them to state each account’s main argument, then check one claim from each against the leaflet.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a 1955 boycott leaflet and textbook paragraph, then play a two-minute documentary clip; have them mark supported and unsupported claims.
Ask: 'Does archival footage make a documentary narrator’s explanation of the boycott accurate?' Have students answer using the dated leaflet.
Play claim check: show four statements from the article and clip; teams label each supported, contradicted, or unverified using the leaflet.
Compare a museum website’s account of the Montgomery boycott with a news anniversary video; check each against a 1955 newspaper report.
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