History Content Standards, Grades K-4

Standards in History for Grades K-4

Topic 1 Living and Working Together in Families and Communities, Now and Long Ago	Standard 1: Family Life Now and in the Recent Past; Family Life in Various Places Long Ago Standard 2: History of Students’ Local Community and How Communities in North America Varied Long Ago
Topic 2 The History of the Students’ Own State or Region	Standard 3 : The People, Events, Problems, and Ideas that Created the History of Their State
Topic 3 The History of the United States: Democratic Principles and Values and the Peoples 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 5: The Causes and Nature of Various Movements of Large Groups of People into and within the United States, Now and Long Ago Standard 6: Regional Folklore and Cultural Contributions That Helped to Form Our National Heritage
Topic 4 The History of Peoples of Many Cultures around the World	Standard 7 : Selected Attributes and Historical Developments of Various Societies in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe Standard 8 : Major Discoveries in Science and Technology, Their Social and Economic Effects, and the Scientists and Inventors Responsible for Them

National Center for History in the Schools