Standard 6.1 - Social Studies Skills
Cumulative Progress Indicators with Strands
| By the end of Grade 8, students will: |
A. Social Studies Skills
- Analyze how events are related over time.
- Use critical thinking skills to interpret events, recognize bias, point of view, and context.
- Assess the credibility of primary and secondary sources.
- Analyze data in order to see persons and events in context.
- Examine current issues, events, or themes and relate them to past events.
- Formulate questions based on information needs.
- Use effective strategies for locating information.
- Compare and contrast competing interpretations of current and historical events.
- Interpret events considering continuity and change, the role of chance, oversight and error, and changing interpretations by historians.
- Distinguish fact from fiction by comparing sources about figures and events with fictionalized characters and events.
- Summarize information in written, graphic, and oral formats.
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