• ​Chronological and Spatial Thinking
  • Students compare the present with the past, evaluating the consequences of past events and decisions and determining the lessons that were learned.
  • Students analyze how change happens at different rates at different times; understand that some aspects can change while others remain the same; and understand that change is complicated and affects not only technology and politics but also values and beliefs.
• Historical Research, Evidence, and Point of View
  • Students construct and test hypotheses; collect, evaluate, and employ information from multiple primary and secondary sources; and apply it in oral and written presentations.
• Historical Interpretation
  • Students show the connections, causal and otherwise, between particular historical events and larger social, economic, and political trends and developments. ​
  • Students recognize the complexity of historical causes and effects, including the limitations on determining cause and effect. ​

​World History, Culture, and Geography: The Modern World (HSS Content Standards, 10th)

• 10.3 Students analyze the effects of the Industrial Revolution in England, France, Germany, Japan, and the United States.
• 10.6 Students analyze the effects of the First World War. ​
• 10.11 Students analyze the integration of countries into the world economy and the information, technological, and communications revolutions (e.g., television, satellites, computers).

United States History and Geography: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century (HSS Content Standards, 11th)

• 11.4 Students trace the rise of the United States to its role as a world power in the twentieth century.
• 11.5 Students analyze the major political, social, economic, technological, and cultural developments of the 1920s.

Common Core ELA Grades 6-12 Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, & Technical Subjects (CC EH)

• English Language Arts Standards – History/Social Studies
  • Key Ideas and Details:
    • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.9-10.1 and 11-12.1: Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, attending to such features as the date and origin of the information.
  • Integration of Knowledge and Ideas:
    • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.7: Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., visually, quantitatively, as well as in words) in order to address a question or solve a problem.

• English Language Arts Standards – Writing
  • Text Types and Purposes
    • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.9-10.2 and 11-12.2: Write informative/explanatory texts, including the narration of historical events, scientific procedures/experiments, or technical processes.

• Production and Distribution of Writing:
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.9-10.4 and 11-12.4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
• Range of Writing:
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.9-10.10 and 11-12.10: Write routinely over extended time frames (time for reflection and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.