Arkansas History Curriculum Frameworks
Arkansas “Reflections from the Past”
Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources
STRAND 1: TIME, CONTINUITY, AND CHANGE
Content Standard 1: Students will demonstrate an understanding of historical chronology, concepts, and relationships.
GRADES K-4
TCC.1.1 Demonstrate the ability to think in terms of sequencing events.
TCC.1.2 Examine and analyze stories of important Arkansans and their contributions to our society.
TCC.1.3 Explain how individuals, events, and ideas influence the history of one’s self, family, community, state and nation.
TCC.1.4 Describe how history is a continuing story of people, places, and events.
Content Standard 2: Students will demonstrate an understanding of how ideas, events, and conditions bring about change.
GRADES K-4
TCC.2.2 Discuss that change affects everyone and is inevitable and universal.
TCC.2.4 Explain how people, places, events, tools, institutions, attitudes, values and ideas are the result of what has happened in the past.
STRAND 2: PEOPLE, PLACES AND ENVIRONMENTS
Content Standard 1: Students will demonstrate an understanding that people, their cultures and systems are connected and that similarities and differences exist among them.
GRADES K-4
PPE.1.1 Distinguish similarities and differences in families and communities in Arkansas.
PPE.1.3 Analyze the contributions of various racial/ethnic groups and cultures to the community and state.
Content Standard 2: Students will demonstrate an understanding of the significance of physical and cultural characteristics of Arkansas.
GRADES K-4
PPE.2.1 Explain how geography and the environment affect the way people live in Arkansas.
PPE.2.2 Understand and apply the five themes of geography
PPE.2.3 Distinguish the six natural geographic regions recognizing the highland/lowland areas of Arkansas.
STRAND 3: PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION AND CONSUMPTION
Content Standard 1: Students will demonstrate an understanding of the economy of Arkansas and its relationship with other economies.
GRADES K-4
PDC.1.2 Apply the concept that goods and services are limited by available human and natural resources, requiring individuals and societies to make choices.
PDC.1.6 Explore the kinds of work, recreational, and tourism opportunities that Arkansans have and how they affect family and community.
PDC.1.7 Determine the natural, human, and capital resources used to produce goods and services in Arkansas.
STRAND 4: POWER, AUTHORITY, AND GOVERNANCE
Content Standard 1: Students will demonstrate an understanding of our national, state, and local government and of the rights and responsibilities of participating in a democratic society within Arkansas.
GRADES K-4
PAG.1.1 Explain the need for government, rules and laws in home, school, community, and state.
PAG.1.2. Recognize official symbols of your school and state.
STRAND 5: SOCIAL SCIENCE PROCESSES AND SKILLS
Content Standard 1: Students will demonstrate critical thinking skills through research, reading, writing, speaking, listening, and problem solving using the tools of social sciences.
GRADES K-4
SSPS.1.2 Interpret information from visual aids, such as charts, graphs and maps.
SSPS.1.4 Recognize and discuss different perspectives in current and past issues in Arkansas.
SSPS.1.5 Distinguish between historical fact and personal opinion in Arkansas History.
STRAND 1: TIME, CONTINUITY, AND CHANGE
Content Standard 1: Students will demonstrate an understanding of historical chronology, concepts, and relationships.
GRADES 5-8
TCC. 1.1. Use Chronological order to explain the cause and effect of events throughout Arkansas History through writing and by creating timelines, charts, and graphs.
TCC. 1.3. Compare and contrast the causes and effects of conflict within the state, the nation, and the world.
Content Standard 2: Students will demonstrate an understanding of how ideas, events, and conditions bring about change.
TCC.2.2. Demonstrate an understanding of how the foundations of government and political ideals in documents such as the state and national constitutions and amendments have brought about change.
STRAND 2: PEOPLE, PLACES AND ENVIRONMENT
Content Standard 1: Students will demonstrate an understanding that people, their cultures and systems, are connected and that similarities and differences exist among them.
PPE.1.3. Examine and explain belief systems with respect to political, social, and aesthetic activities that make up Arkansas traditions.
Content Standard 2: Students will demonstrate an understanding of the significance of physical cultural characteristics of Arkansas.
GRADES 5-8
PPE.2.1. Analyze how humans have adapted to, altered, and been affected by physical environments in Arkansas.
PPE.2.4. Locate, describe, and map varying landforms and geographic features in Arkansas, such as forests, mountains, plateaus, prairies, rivers, lakes, and wetlands.
STRAND 3: PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION, AND CONSUMPTION
Content Standard 1: Students will demonstrate an understanding of the economy of Arkansas and its relationship with other economies.
GRADES 5-8
PDC.1.2. Assess how goods and services are limited by available natural and human resources requiring individuals and societies to make choices to satisfy wants and needs.
PDC.1.4. Research and describe elements in Arkansas’ economy including tourism, recreation, agriculture and natural resources
STRAND 4: POWER, AUTHORITY, AND GOVERNANCE
Content Standard 1: Students will demonstrate an understanding of our national, state, and local government and of the rights and responsibilities of participating in a democratic society within Arkansas.
GRADES 5-8
PAG.1.3. Summarize the characteristics of effective leadership in Arkansas in historical and contemporary time periods.
PAG.1.4. Discuss and evaluate the concept of good citizenship in Arkansas.
STRAND 5: SOCIAL SCIENCE PROCESSES AND SKILLS
Content Standard 1: Students will demonstrate critical thinking skills through research, reading, writing, speaking, listening, and problem solving using the tools of social sciences.
GRADES 5-8
SSPS 1.2. Analyze artifacts, oral histories, photographs, landmarks, literature, and the arts to understand Arkansas’cultrue by using a variety of methods.
STRAND 1: TIME, CONTINUITY, AND CHANGE
Content Standard 1: Students will demonstrate an understanding of historical chronology, concepts, and relationships.
GRADES 9-12
TCC.1.1. Evaluate major turning points and historical events in Arkansas and connect them to the natural geographic regions in which they occurred.
TCC.1.4. Investigate and evaluate the process and impact of change over time in Arkansas.
Content Standard 2: Students will demonstrate an understanding of how ideas, events, and conditions bring about change.
GRADES 9-12
TCC.2.2. Compare and contrast multiple historical perspectives.
STRAND 2: PEOPLE, PLACES AND ENVIRONMENTS
Content Standard 1: Students will demonstrate an understanding that people, their cultures and systems are connected and that similarities and differences exist among them.
GRADES 9-12
PPE.1.2. Examine how cultural elements such as language, literature, belief systems and the arts can either connect people or cause conflict.
Content Standard 2: Students will demonstrate an understanding of the significance of physical and cultural characteristics of Arkansas.
GRADES 9-12
PPE.2.2. Compare and contrast various cultures in Arkansas with respect to the five themes of geography: location, place, region, movement, and human-environment.
STRAND 3: PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION, AND CONSUMPTION
Content Standard 1: Students will demonstrate an understanding of the economy of Arkansas and its relationship with other economies.
GRADES 9-12
PDC.1.2. Examine existing data and research from multiple perspectives showing how technology, population growth, resource use, and environmental quality are related to economic development within the state.
PDC.1.3. Propose and evaluate alternative uses of environments and resources in Arkansas, such as in recreation and tourism or economic development.
STRAND 4: POWER, AUTHORITY, AND GOVERNANCE
Content Standard 1: Students will demonstrate an understanding of our national, state, and local government and of the rights and responsibilities of participating
in a democratic society within Arkansas.
PAG.4.4 Discuss and demonstrate the concepts of good citizenship including respect for the property of others, school and community involvement, and respect for authority.
STRAND 5: SOCIAL SCIENCE PROCESSES AND SKILLS
Content standard 1: Students will demonstrate critical thinking skills through research, reading, writing, speaking, listening, and problem solving using the tools of social sciences.
GRADES 9-12
SSPS.1.3. Understand the differences between fact and opinion in Arkansas History by applying historical methodologies, including but not limited to, evaluating of evidence, considering credibility of sources, and searching for causation.