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CA.3.Continuity and Change
Continuity and Change
3.2. Students describe the American Indian nations in their local region long ago and in the recent past.
3.2.1. Describe national identities, religious beliefs, customs, and various folklore traditions.
3.2.2. Discuss the ways in which physical geography, including climate, influenced how the local Indian nations adapted to their natural environment (e.g., how they obtained food, clothing, tools).
3.2.3. Describe the economy and systems of government, particularly those with tribal constitutions, and their relationship to federal and state governments.
3.3. Students draw from historical and community resources to organize the sequence of local historical events and describe how each period of settlement left its mark on the land.
3.3.1. Research the explorers who visited here, the newcomers who settled here, and the people who continue to come to the region, including their cultural and religious traditions and contributions.
3.4. Students understand the role of rules and laws in our daily lives and the basic structure of the U.S. government.
3.4.1. Determine the reasons for rules, laws, and the U.S. Constitution; the role of citizenship in the promotion of rules and laws; and the consequences for people who violate rules and laws.
3.4.2. Discuss the importance of public virtue and the role of citizens, including how to participate in a classroom, in the community, and in civic life.
3.4.3. Know the histories of important local and national landmarks, symbols, and essential documents that create a sense of community among citizens and exemplify cherished ideals (e.g., the U.S. flag, the bald eagle, the Statue of Liberty, the U.S. Constitutio
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study GuideU.S. Government
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3.4.5. Describe the ways in which California, the other states, and sovereign American Indian tribes contribute to the making of our nation and participate in the federal system of government.
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Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study GuideU.S. Government
3.4.6. Describe the lives of American heroes who took risks to secure our freedoms (e.g., Anne Hutchinson, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King, Jr.).
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study GuideTime Lines
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3.5. Students demonstrate basic economic reasoning skills and an understanding of the economy of the local region.
3.5.1. Describe the ways in which local producers have used and are using natural resources, human resources, and capital resources to produce goods and services in the past and the present.
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.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study GuideTime Lines
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.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study GuideTime Lines
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.
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.
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.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study GuideTime Lines
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study GuideU.S. Presidents
K-5.REPV.3. Students distinguish fact from fiction by comparing documentary sources on historical figures and events with fictionalized characters and events.