Indiana Social Studies K.H.3
The Standard
Identify events and place events in a sequence.
2026 Indiana Academic Standards: K-12 Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Children name events in a short story or from their own day. They put the events in the order they happened and tell what came first, next, and last.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A child puts three pictures of a familiar event in order. They tell what happened in each picture and use first, next, and last correctly.
Common Misconceptions
- Children may arrange pictures by what they like best instead of when each event happened. Some mix up what happened next with what happened last.
How to Assess It
- Give each child three cards showing someone opening a box, taking out a toy, and playing with it. Ask them to put the cards in order and say what happened first, next, and last.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs cards showing a child washing hands, drying hands, and eating lunch; have them line up the cards and tell the order.
Draw a dropped crayon, a child picking it up, and the crayon back in its box; ask which drawing comes last and why.
Play Fix the Story: say, 'I put on shoes, found socks, went outside'; have children retell the events in order.
Ask children to draw three things they did before school today, then tell a partner which happened first, next, and last.
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Related Standards
- 1.H.5
Develop a simple timeline of important events in the student’s life.
- 1.G.3
Identify and describe the relative locations of places in the school setting.
- 3.H.5
Create simple timelines that identify important events in various regions of the state.
- 1.H.6
Use the terms past and present; yesterday, today, and tomorrow; and next week and last week to sequentially order events that have occurred in the school.
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