National Center for History in the Schools

Part One: National Standards for History (K-4): Chapter Three
Topic Three: The History of the United States: Democratic Principles and Values and the People from Many Cultures Who Contributed to Its Cultural, Economic, and Political Heritage  
STANDARD 4
How democratic values came to be, and how they have been exemplified by people, events, and symbols.
Standard 4A: The student understands the history of indigenous peoples who first lived in his or her state or region.
Grade Level
Therefore the student is able to:
K-4
 Draw upon data in paintings and artifacts to hypothesize about the culture of the early Hawaiians or Native Americans who are known to have lived in the state or region, e.g., the Anasazi of the Southwest, the Makah of the Northwest coast, the Eskimos/Inupiat of Alaska, the Creeks of the Southeast, the Mississippians (Cahokia), or the Mound Builders. [Formulate historical questions]
K-4
 Draw upon legends and myths of the Native Americans or Hawaiians who lived in students’ state or region in order to describe personal accounts of their history. [Read historical narratives imaginatively]
3-4
 Compare and contrast how Native American or Hawaiian life today differs from the life of these same groups over 100 years ago. [Compare and contrast differing sets of ideas]
Standard 3B: The student understands the history of the first European, African, and/or Asian-Pacific explorers and settlers who came to his or her state or region.
Grade Level
Therefore the student is able to:
3-4
 Gather data in order to analyze geographic, economic, and religious reasons that brought the first explorers and settlers to the state or region. [Obtain historical data]
3-4
 Reconstruct in timelines the order of early explorations and settlements including explorers, early settlements, and cities. [Establish temporal order]
K-4
 Examine visual data in order to describe ways in which early settlers adapted to, utilized, and changed the environment. [Draw upon visual data]
3-4
 Analyze some of the interactions that occurred between the Native Americans or Hawaiians and the first European, African, and Asian-Pacific explorers and settlers in the students’ state or region. [Read historical narratives imaginatively]
K-4
 Use a variety of sources to construct a historical narrative about daily life in the early settlements of the student’s state or region. [Obtain historical data]
Standard 3C: The student understands the various other groups from regions throughout the world who came into the his or her own state or region over the long-ago and recent past.
Grade Level
Therefore the student is able to:
3-4
 []
K-4
 []
K-4
 []
3-4
 []
3-4
 []
3-4
 []
3-4
 []
Standard 3D: The student understands the various other groups from regions throughout the world who came into the his or her own state or region over the long-ago and recent past.
Grade Level
Therefore the student is able to:
3-4
 []
K-4
 []
K-4
 []
3-4
 []
3-4
 []
3-4
 []
3-4
 []

>> Standards in History for Grades K-4: Topic One, Standard 2

| ©2004 National Center for History in the Schools