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CA.2.People Who Make a Difference

People Who Make a Difference
2.2. Students demonstrate map skills by describing the absolute and relative locations of people, places, and environments.
2.2.2. Label from memory a simple map of the North American continent, including the countries, oceans, Great Lakes, major rivers, and mountain ranges. Identify the essential map elements: title, legend, directional indicator, scale, and date.
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2.3. Students explain governmental institutions and practices in the United States and other countries.
2.3.2. Describe the ways in which groups and nations interact with one another to try to resolve problems in such areas as trade, cultural contacts, treaties, diplomacy, and military force.
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2.4. Students understand basic economic concepts and their individual roles in the economy and demonstrate basic economic reasoning skills.
2.4.1. Describe food production and consumption long ago and today, including the roles of farmers, processors, distributors, weather, and land and water resources.
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2.4.2. Understand the role and interdependence of buyers (consumers) and sellers (producers) of goods and services.
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2.5. Students understand the importance of individual action and character and explain how heroes from long ago and the recent past have made a difference in others' lives (e.g., from biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Louis Pasteur, Sitting Bull, George Washingt
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CA.K-5.HSSA.Historical and Social Sciences Analysis Skills: The intellectual skills noted below are to be learned through, and applied to, the content standards for kindergarten through grade five. They are to be assessed only in conjunction with the content standard

Historical and Social Sciences Analysis Skills: The intellectual skills noted below are to be learned through, and applied to, the content standards for kindergarten through grade five. They are to be assessed only in conjunction with the content standard
K-5.CST. Chronological and Spatial Thinking
K-5.CST.1. Students place key events and people of the historical era they are studying in a chronological sequence and within a spatial context; they interpret time lines.
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K-5.CST.2. Students correctly apply terms related to time, including past, present, future, decade, century, and generation.
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K-5.CST.3. Students explain how the present is connected to the past, identifying both similarities and differences between the two, and how some things change over time and some things stay the same.
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K-5.CST.4. Students use map and globe skills to determine the absolute locations of places and interpret information available through a map's or globe's legend, scale, and symbolic representations.
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K-5.HI. Historical Interpretation
K-5.HI.1. Students summarize the key events of the era they are studying and explain the historical contexts of those events.
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K-5.HI.2. Students identify the human and physical characteristics of the places they are studying and explain how those features form the unique character of those places.
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K-5.REPV. Research, Evidence, and Point of View
K-5.REPV.2. Students pose relevant questions about events they encounter in historical documents, eyewitness accounts, oral histories, letters, diaries, artifacts, photographs, maps, artworks, and architecture.
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K-5.REPV.3. Students distinguish fact from fiction by comparing documentary sources on historical figures and events with fictionalized characters and events.
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