Virginia SOL K.5

K.5 is a Standards of Learning history and social science standard. These are the skills expectations under it.

• K.5.a

  explaining the roles of important local community members, such as, but not limited to medical personnel, first responders, teachers, and business leaders

• K.5.b

  identifying historic events

• K.5.c

  telling the stories of the people that developed their local communities

01

What Students Need to Do

Students name people who shape their community and explain what each person does. They identify a local event from the past and retell how people helped the community grow or change.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

A student can match local community members with their jobs and explain how those jobs help others. The student can sequence pictures from a local story and describe what happened using past-time words.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may think community history includes only famous national people or events. They may confuse past and present, or describe a worker's uniform without explaining the person's role.

04

How to Assess It

Give students a two-box exit ticket. Ask them to draw one local community member and one past local event, then dictate a sentence about each.

1. 01

   Set up role-play stations with a toy medical kit, fire hat, books, and play money, then have students explain each worker’s role.

2. 02

   Show a photo of a local landmark and ask, “Who may have helped build, protect, teach, or work here?”

3. 03

   Play a picture-matching game pairing local workers with tools, workplaces, and the people they serve.

4. 04

   Invite a longtime resident or community worker to share one local story, then have students draw and label what changed.

• S.3

  The student will apply history and social science skills to the content by

• WG.14

  The student will apply history and social science skills to determine cultural patterns and interactions across time and place by

• USII.9

  The student will apply history and social science skills by

• 2.2

  The student will apply history and social science skills to understand citizenship by