Past, Present and Future - First Grade History SOL 1.1


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Curriculum Framework

1.1 - The student will interpret information presented in picture timelines to show sequence of events and will distinguish among past, present, and future.

- Essential Understandings:
  • Past, present, and future times are different. 
  • Everyday life changes in different places and times. 
  • The sequence of events can be shown on a timeline. 
- Essential Questions:
  • How have schools changed over time? 
  • How have communities changed over time? 
  • How has transportation changed over time? 
  • How has family life changed over time? 
  • What does a timeline show about the past and present? 
  • How might a community change in the future? 


- Essential Knowledge:
  Terms to know: 
  • community: A place where people live, work, and play 
  • change: Something that happens to make things different 
  • family: A group of people who care for one another 
  • past: Things that have already happened 
  • present: Things that are happening right now 
  • future: Things that may happen someday 
- Essential Skills:
  • Gather and classify information. 
  • Interpret concepts expressed by pictures. 
  • Use timelines. 
  • Sequence events in chronological order.