Louisiana Framework

Foundation Skills: Resource Access and Utilization: The process of identifying, locating, selecting, and using resource tools to help in analyzing, synthesizing, and communicating information. The identification and employment of appropriate tools, techniques, and technologies are essential to all learning processes. These resource tools include pen, pencil, and paper; audio/video materials; word processors; computers; interactive devices; telecommunication; and other emerging technologies.

Strands and Content Standards: History: Time, Continuity, and Change: Students develop a sense of historical time and historical perspective as they study the history of their community, state, nation, and world. 

Benchmarks 

G-1A-M2 interpreting and developing maps, globes, graphs, charts, models, and databases to analyze spatial distribution patterns

G-1B-M1 explaining and analyzing both the physical and human phenomena associated with specific places, including precipitation and settlement patterns

G-1C-M4 analyzing types, patterns, and effects of human migration over time

G-1C-M5 tracing local and worldwide patterns of cultural diffusion and analyzing their causes and effects

G-1D-M2 explaining and giving examples of how characteristics of different physical environments affect human activities

H-1A-M1 describing chronological relationships and patterns

H-1A-M2 demonstrating historical perspective through the political, social, and economic context in which an event or idea occurred

H-1A-M3 analyzing the impact that specific individuals, ideas, events, and decisions had on the course of history

H-1D-M1 describing the contributions of people, events, movements, and ideas that have been significant in the history of Louisiana

H-1D-M4 locating and describing Louisiana’s geographic features and examining their impact on people past and present

Louisiana Content Standards Website 

Technology Strategies

Interdisciplinary Connections