Virginia SOL USII.9

Social Studies6th GradeScience and Technology Since the Turn of the Century

SOL Standard (Skills Cluster)

The student will apply history and social science skills by

Virginia Standards of Learning for History and Social Science

Cluster contents

USII.9 is a Standards of Learning history and social science standard. These are the skills expectations under it.

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students trace how inventions and systems changed through repeated improvements. They explain how those changes affected daily life, popular culture, communication, banking, business, and industry.
What Mastery Looks Like: Students can place key developments in sequence and identify what changed from one version to the next. They can support a cause-and-effect claim with specific historical evidence.
Common Misconceptions: Students may treat an invention as a single event or assume everyone adopted it immediately. They may also confuse events that happened together with events that caused one another.
How to Assess It: Give students one early and one later image of a telephone. Ask them to name an improvement and explain one effect on culture or business.

Lesson moves

Have groups sequence image cards showing changes in telephones, recorded music, factories, and banking, then label each improvement.
Ask students to write: How did radio, television, or the internet change what Americans shared and bought?
Play a matching game connecting developments such as credit cards, assembly lines, and streaming media to their effects.
Students trace three smartphone features to older technologies and explain how each changed communication, entertainment, or business.

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