Texas TEKS 2.15

2.15 is a TEKS knowledge and skills statement. These are the student expectations under it.

• 2.15.A

  identify and state facts based on relevant evidence

• 2.15.B

  identify different kinds of historical sources and artifacts and explain how they can be used to study the past

• 2.15.C

  gather information about a topic using a variety of valid oral and visual sources such as interviews, music, pictures, maps, and artifacts

• 2.15.D

  interpret oral, visual, and print material by sequencing, categorizing, identifying the main idea, predicting, comparing, and contrasting.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students gather information from trustworthy interviews, songs, pictures, maps, artifacts, and short texts. They identify source types and explain what each reveals about the past. They use evidence to state facts, sequence events, sort details, find main ideas, predict, compare, and contrast.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

Students can name a source, pull out a fact, and point to the evidence that supports it. They can organize information from two sources and explain what is alike, different, or most important.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may treat guesses or opinions as facts. They may think every old object is reliable or that one source tells the whole story. They also confuse the main idea with one interesting detail.

04

How to Assess It

Give students a photograph, a simple map, and a short paragraph about the same event. Ask them to write one supported fact, name its source, and compare two details.

1. 01

   Place an old photograph, replica object, map, and letter at stations, then have students record what each source can reveal.

2. 02

   Show two pictures of the same place from different years and ask, "What changed, what stayed the same, and what evidence proves it?"

3. 03

   Play Source Sort by having teams classify cards as interview, picture, map, artifact, music, or print, then explain each choice.

4. 04

   Students interview a school employee about how the school has changed, then compare the interview with an old yearbook photograph.

• 5.23

  The 5th Grade version of this standard.

• 4.19

  The 4th Grade version of this standard.

• 1.16

  The 1st Grade version of this standard.

• 3.14

  The 3rd Grade version of this standard.