Big Ideas:
Religious and cultural practices that emerged during this period have endured and continue to influence people.
Curricular Competencies:
Use Social Studies inquiry processes and skills to — ask questions; gather, interpret, and analyze ideas; and communicate findings and decisions
Identify what the creators of accounts, narratives, maps, or texts have determined is significant (significance)
Make ethical judgments about past events, decisions, or actions, and assess the limitations of drawing direct lessons from the past (ethical judgment)
Big Ideas:
Earth and its climate have changed over geological time.
Curricular Competencies:
Make observations aimed at identifying their own questions about the natural world
Experience and interpret the local environment
Apply First Peoples perspectives and knowledge, other ways of knowing, and local knowledge as sources of information
Use scientific understandings to identify relationships and draw conclusions
Express and reflect on a variety of experiences and perspectives of place
Big Ideas:
Exploring and sharing multiple perspectives extends our thinking.
Exploring stories and other texts helps us understand ourselves and make connections to others and to the world.
Curricular Competencies:
Synthesize ideas from a variety of sources to build understanding
Think critically, creatively, and reflectively to explore ideas within, between, and beyond texts
Recognize and identify the role of personal, social, and cultural contexts, values, and perspectives in texts
Respond to text in personal, creative, and critical ways
Recognize and appreciate the role of story, narrative, and oral tradition in expressing First Peoples perspectives, values, beliefs, and points of view
Recognize the validity of First Peoples oral tradition for a range of purposes
Exchange ideas and viewpoints to build shared understanding and extend thinking