Content Standard: History
C. Historical Inquiry, Analysis, and Interpretation
Students will learn to evaluate resource material such as documents, artifacts, maps, artworks, and literature, and to make judgments about the perspectives of the authors and their credibility when interpreting current historical events.
Common Assessment(s):

Performance Indicators Students will be able to:	Essential Elements (Specific grade level learning objectives)			Suggested Performance Activities	Suggested Classroom Assessments	Vocabulary
1. Identify changes currently occurring in their daily lives and compare these to changes in daily life during a specific historic era.	Students will investigate changes over the years in: technology communication transportation food storage and preparation entertainment jobs			Students will discuss how various inventions and technologies have changed and how this has affected people's lives. When discussing people and events in history, students will chart changes occurring then and now (transportation, communication, medicine, food, etc.)	Students will compare life in a historical period to their life now.	Pilgrims Columbus Washington Lincoln Martin Luther King, Jr. Squanto Samoset Popham Colony Revolutionary War Civil War