Oregon Social Sciences Standards

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Grade 5 History

Common Curriculum Goal

• Historical Skills: Interpret and reconstruct chronological relationships.

Content Standard

• Understand, represent, and interpret chronological relationships in history.

Benchmark(s)

• Interpret data and chronological relationships presented in timelines and narratives.
• Order events found in historical narratives.
• Calculate time and infer information from timelines.

Common Curriculum Goal

• Analyze cause and effect relationships, including multiple causalities.

Content Standard

• Identify and analyze cause and effect relationships in history.

Benchmark(s)

• Identify cause and effect relationships in a sequence of events.

Common Curriculum Goal

• Understand, recognize, and interpret change and continuity over time.

Content Standard

• Interpret and represent chronological relationships and patterns of change and continuity over time.

Benchmark(s)

• Understand how history can be organized using themes, geography, or chronology.

Common Curriculum Goal

• Identify and analyze diverse perspectives on and historical interpretation of historical issues and events.

Content Standard

• Identify and analyze various perspectives and interpretations of historical issues and events.

Benchmark(s)

• Identify primary and secondary sources.

Common Curriculum Goal

• U.S. HISTORY: Understand and interpret events, issues, and developments within and across eras of U.S. history.

Content Standard

• Understand the importance and lasting influence of individuals, issues, events, people, and developments in U.S. history.

Benchmark(s)

• Understand how individuals, issues, and events changed or significantly influenced the course of U.S. history from pre-history through the period of the American Revolution.
• Identify and understand the groups living in the Western Hemisphere before European exploration, their ways of life, and the empires they developed.
• Understand the impact of early European exploration on Native Americans and on the land.
• Understand the impact of individuals through the period of the American Revolution, on ideas, ways of life, or the course of events in U.S. history.
• Understand the colonial experience and how it led to the American Revolution.
• Identify and understand the causes, course, and impact of the American Revolution, including the roles of George Washington, Samuel Adams, and Thomas Jefferson.

Common Curriculum Goal

• STATE & LOCAL HISTORY: Understand and interpret the history of the state of Oregon.

Content Standard

• Understand and interpret events, issues, and - developments in Oregon history.

Benchmark(s)

• Understand how individuals changed or significantly influenced the course of Oregon state history.
• Identify significant people in the history of Oregon from prehistory through the period of the American Revolution.
• Understand the interactions and contributions of the various people and cultures that have lived in or migrated to the area that is now Oregon from pre-history through the period of the American Revolution.

Common Curriculum Goal

• Understand and interpret events, issues, and developments in the history of one's family, local community, and culture.

Content Standard

• Understand and interpret events, issues, and developments in local history.

Benchmark(s)

• Understand how individuals changed or significantly influenced the course of local history.