Next Generation
Sunshine State Standards

Numerous social studies, language arts, and arts standards for grades 6–8 and 9–12 can be met when teachers involve their students in the Florida History Fair. Because this year's theme, "Turning Points in History: People, Ideas, Events," is broad, topics relating to all time periods and geographic regions are conceivable. At the end of the list are standards that specifically relate to the theme.

Middle School Correlations

Social Studies
SS.6.W.1.1 use timelines to identify chronological order of historical events.
SS.6.W.1.3 Interpret primary and secondary sources.
SS.6.W.1.4 Describe the methods of historical inquiry and how history relates to the other social sciences.
SS.6.W.1.6 Describe how history transmits culture and heritage and provides models of human character
SS.8.A.1.1 Provide supporting details for an answer from text, interview for oral history, check validity of information from research/text, and identify strong vs. weak arguments.
SS.8.A.1.2 Analyze charts, graphs, maps, photographs, and timelines; analyze political cartoons; determine cause and effect.
SS.8.A.1.3 Analyze current events relevant to American History topics through a variety of electronic and print media resources.
SS.8.A.1.4 Differentiate fact from opinion, utilize appropriate historical research and fiction/nonfiction support materials
SS.8.A.1.5 Identify, within both primary and secondary sources, the author, audience, format, and purpose of significant historical documents.
SS.8.A.1.6 Compare interpretations of key events and issues throughout American History.
SS.8.A.1.7 View historic events through the eyes of those who were there as shown in their art, writings, music, and artifacts.
SS.8.G.6.2 Illustrate places and events in U.S. history through the use of narratives and graphic representations.
Language Arts

The student will

LA.8.2.2.4, LA.7.2.2.4, LA.6.2.2.4 identify and analyze the characteristics of a variety of types of text (e.g., reference works, reports, technical manuals, newspapers, magazines, biographies, periodicals, procedures, instructions, practical/functional texts).
LA.6.3.3.2 revise by creating clarity and logic by rearranging words, sentences, and paragraphs, adding transitional words, incorporating sources directly and indirectly into writing, using generalizations where appropriate, and connecting conclusion to ending (e.g., use of the circular ending).
LA.8.4.2.3, LA.7.4.2.3, LA.6.4.2.3 write specialized informational expository essays (e.g., process, description, explanation, comparison/contrast, problem/solution) that include a thesis statement, supporting details, an organizational structure particular to its type, and introductory, body, and concluding paragraphs.
LA.8.6.2.2, LA.7.6.2.2 assess, organize, synthesize, and evaluate the validity and reliability of information in text, using a variety of techniques by examining several sources of information, including both primary and secondary sources.
LA.8.6.2.4, LA.7.6.2.4, LA.6.6.2.4 understand the importance of legal and ethical practices, including laws regarding libel slander, copyright, and plagiarism in the use of mass media and digital sources, know the associated consequences.
LA.8.6.4.2, LA.7.6.4.2, LA.6.6.4.2 evaluate and apply digital tools (e.g., word processing, multimedia authoring, web tools, graphic organizers) to publications and presentations.
Arts
VA.B.1.3.1 Knows how different subjects, themes, and symbols (through context, value, and aesthetics) convey intended meanings for ideas in works of art.
VA.E.1.3.1 Understands how knowledge, skills, and attitudes gained from the visual arts can enhance and deepen understanding of life.
TH.A.1.3.1 Develops characters, relationships, and environments from written sources (e.g., plays, stories, poems, and history).
TH.A.3.3.1 Selects and creates elements of scenery, properties, lighting, costumes, make-up, and sound to signify a character and setting.
TH.D.1.3.1 Understands a character in a play through exploration of internal characterization (e.g., emotions and motivations) and external characterization (e.g., background, posture, mannerisms, and dress).

High School Correlations

Social Studies
SS.912.A.1.1 Describe the importance of historiography, which includes how historical knowledge is obtained and transmitted, when interpreting events in history.
SS.912.A.1.2 Utilize a variety of primary and secondary sources to identify author, historical significance, audience, and authenticity to understand a historical period.
SS.912.A.1.3 Utilize timelines to identify the time sequence of historical data.
SS.912.A.1.4 Analyze how images, symbols, objects, cartoons, graphs, charts, maps, and artwork may be used to interpret the significance of time periods and events from the past
SS.912.A.1.5 Evaluate the validity, reliability, bias, and authenticity of current events and Internet resources.
SS.912.A.1.6 Use case studies to explore social, political, legal, and economic relationships in history.
SS.912.A.1.7 Describe various socio-cultural aspects of American life including arts, artifacts, literature, education, and publications.
SS.912.W.1.1 Use timelines to establish cause and effect relationships of historical events
SS.912.W.1.3 Interpret and evaluate primary and secondary sources.
SS.912.W.1.4 Explain how historians use historical inquiry and other sciences to understand the past.
SS.912.W.1.5 Compare conflicting interpretations or schools of thought about world events and individual contributions to history (historiography)
SS.912.W.1.6 Evaluate the role of history in shaping identity and character.
SS.912.H.1.2 Describe how historical events, social context, and culture impact forms, techniques, and purposes of works in the arts, including the relationship between a government and its citizens.
Social Studies
SS.912.A.7.14 Review the role of the United States as a participant in the global economy (trade agreements, international competition, impact on American labor, environmental concerns).
Language Arts

The student will

LA.910.2.2.4, LA.1112.1.1.4 identify and analyze the characteristics of a variety of text (e.g., reference works, reports, technical manuals, newspapers, magazines, biographies, periodicals, procedures, instructions, practical/functional texts).
LA.910.3.3.2, LA.1112.3.3.2 revise by creating clarity and logic by maintaining central theme, idea, or unifying point and developing relationships among ideas.
LA.910.4.2.2, LA.1112.4.2.2 record information and ideas from primary and/or secondary sources accurately and coherently, noting the validity and reliability of these sources and attributing sources of information.
LA.910.4.2.3, LA.1112.4.2.3 write informational/expository essays that speculate on the causes and effects of a situation, establish the connection between the postulated causes or effects, offer evidence supporting the validity of the proposed causes or effects, and include introductory, body, and concluding paragraphs.
LA.910.6.2.2, LA.1112.6.2.2 organize, synthesize, analyze, and evaluate the validity and reliability of information from multiple sources (including primary and secondary sources) to draw conclusions using a variety of techniques, and correctly use standardized citations.
LA.910.6.2.4, LA.1112.6.2.4 understand the importance of legal and ethical practices, including laws regarding libel, slander, copyright, and plagiarism in the use of mass media and digital sources, know the associated consequences, and comply with the law.
LA.910.6.3.2, LA.1112.6.3.2 ethically use mass media and digital technology in assignments and presentations, citing sources according to standardized citation styles.
Arts
VA.A.1.4.1 Uses two- and three-dimensional media, techniques, tools, and processes to communicate an idea or concept based on research, environment, personal experience, observation, and imagination.
VA.B.1.4.2 Understands that works of art can communicate an idea and elicit a variety of responses through the use of selected media, techniques, and processes.
VA.E.1.3.1 Understands how knowledge, skills, and attitudes gained from the visual arts can enhance and deepen understanding of life.
TH.A.1.4.1 Uses classical, contemporary, and vocal acting techniques and methods to portray the physical, emotional, and social dimensions of characters from various genres and media.
TH.A.2.4.1 Uses unified production concepts and techniques for various media.
TH.A.3.4.1 Uses scientific and technological advances to develop visual and aural staging elements that complement the interpretation of a text.
TH.A.3.4.3 Designs, implements, and integrates all sound effects into the production concept.
The following are examples of social studies standards that relate to this year's theme, "Turning Points in History: People, Ideas, Events."

Middle School

SS.8.A.3.7 Examine the structure, content, and consequences of the Declaration of Independence.
SS.8.A.3.10 Examine the course and consequences of the Constitutional Convention (New Jersey Plan, Virginia Plan, Great Compromise, Three-Fifths Compromise, compromises regarding taxation and slave trade, Electoral College, state vs. federal power, empowering a president.
SS.8.A.3.11 Analyze support and opposition (Federalists, Federalist Papers, AntiFederalists, Bill of Rights) to ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
SS.8.A.3.12 Examine the influences of George Washington's presidency in the formation of the new nation.
SS.8.A.4.1 Examine the causes, course, and consequences of United States westward expansion and its growing diplomatic assertiveness (War of 1812, Convention of 1818, Adams-Onís Treaty, Missouri Compromise, Monroe Doctrine, Trail of Tears, Texas annexation, Manifest Destiny, Oregon Territory, Mexican American War/Mexican Cession, California Gold Rush, Compromise of 1850, Kansas Nebraska Act, Gadsden Purchase).
SS.8.A.4.4 Discuss the impact of westward expansion on cultural practices and migration patterns of Native American and African slave populations.
SS.8.A.4.5 Explain the causes, course, and consequences of the 19th century transportation revolution on the growth of the nation's economy.
SS.8.A.4.6 Identify technological improvements (inventions/inventors) that contributed to industrial growth.
SS.8.A.4.7 Explain the causes, course, and consequences (industrial growth, subsequent effect on children and women) of New England's textile industry.
SS.6.W.2.5 Summarize important achievements of Egyptian civilization.
SS.6.W.2.6 Determine the contributions of key figures from ancient Egypt.
SS.6.W.2.7 Summarize the important achievements of Mesopotamian civilization.
SS.6.W.2.8 Determine the impact of key figures from ancient Mesopotamian civilizations.
SS.6.W.3.1 Analyze the cultural impact the ancient Phoenicians had on the Mediterranean world with regard to colonization (Carthage), exploration, maritime commerce (purple dye, tin), and written communication (alphabet).
SS.6.W.3.3 Compare life in Athens and Sparta (government and the status of citizens, women and children, foreigners, helots).
SS.6.W.3.5 Summarize the important achievements and contributions of ancient Greek civilization.
SS.6.W.3.6 Determine the impact of key figures from ancient Greece.
SS.6.W.3.7 Summarize the key achievements, contributions, and figures associated with the Hellenistic Period.
SS.6.W.3.9 Explain the impact of the Punic Wars on the development of the Roman Empire.
SS.6.W.3.13 Identify key figures and the basic beliefs of early Christianity and how these beliefs impacted the Roman Empire.
SS.6.W.3.15 Explain the reasons for the gradual decline of the Western Roman Empire after the Pax Romana.
SS.6.W.4.1 Discuss the significance of Aryan and other tribal migrations on Indian civilization.
SS.6.W.4.4 Explain the teachings of Buddha, the importance of Asoka, and how Buddhism spread in India, Ceylon, and other parts of Asia.
SS.6.W.4.11 Explain the rise and expansion of the Mongol empire and its effects on peoples of Asia and Europe including the achievements of Ghengis and Kublai Khan.
SS.7.C.1.1 Recognize how Enlightenment ideas including Montesquieu's view of separation of power and John Locke's theories related to natural law and how Locke's social contract influenced the Founding Fathers.
SS.7.C.1.2 Trace the impact that the Magna Carta, English Bill of Rights, Mayflower Compact, and Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" had on colonists' views of government.
SS.7.C.3.7 Analyze the impact of the 13th, 14th, 15th, 19th, 24th, and 26th amendments on participation of minority groups in the American political process.
SS.7.C.3.12 Analyze the significance and outcomes of landmark Supreme Court cases including, but not limited to, Marbury v. Madison, Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education, Gideon v. Wainwright, Miranda v. Arizona, in re Gault, Tinker v. Des Moines, Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier, United States v. Nixon, and Bush v. Gore.
SS.8.A.2.4 Identify the impact of key colonial figures on the economic, political, and social development of the colonies.
SS.8.A.3.6 Examine the causes, course, and consequences of the American Revolution.
SS.8.A.4.9 Analyze the causes, course, and consequences of the Second Great Awakening on social reform movements.
SS.8.A.4.10 Analyze the impact of technological advancements on the agricultural economy and slave labor.
SS.8.A.4.12 Examine the effects of the 1804 Haitian Revolution on the United States acquisition of the Louisiana Territory.
SS.8.A.4.13 Explain the consequences of landmark Supreme Court decisions (McCulloch v. Maryland [1819], Gibbons v. Odgen [1824], Cherokee Nation v. Georgia [1831], and Worcester v. Georgia [1832]) significant to this era of American history.
SS.8.A.4.14 Examine the causes, course, and consequences of the women's suffrage movement (1848 Seneca Falls Convention, Declaration of Sentiments).
SS.8.A.5.1 Explain the causes, course, and consequences of the Civil War (sectionalism, slavery, states' rights, balance of power in the Senate).
SS.8.A.5.6 Compare significant Civil War battles and events and their effects on civilian populations.
SS.8.A.5.8 Explain and evaluate the policies, practices, and consequences of Reconstruction (presidential and congressional reconstruction, Johnson's impeachment, Civil Rights Act of 1866, the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, opposition of Southern whites to Reconstruction, accomplishments and failures of Radical Reconstruction, presidential election of 1876, end of Reconstruction, rise of Jim Crow laws, rise of Ku Klux Klan).

High School

SS.912.A.2.4 Distinguish the freedoms guaranteed to African Americans and other groups with the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution.
SS.912.A.2.5 Assess how Jim Crow Laws influenced life for African Americans and other racial/ethnic minority groups.
SS.912.A.3.1 Analyze the economic challenges to American farmers and farmers' responses to these challenges in the mid to late 1800s.
SS.912.A.3.2 Examine the social, political, and economic causes, course, and consequences of the second Industrial Revolution that began in the late 19th century.
SS.912.A.3.4 Determine how the development of steel, oil, transportation, communication, and business practices affected the United States economy.
SS.912.A.3.5 Identify significant inventors of the Industrial Revolution including African Americans and women.
SS.912.A.3.9 Examine causes, course, and consequences of the labor movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
SS.912.A.3.11 Analyze the impact of political machines in United States cities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
SS.912.A.4.2 Explain the motives of the United States acquisition of the territories.
SS.912.A.4.3 Examine causes, course, and consequences of the Spanish American War.
SS.912.A.4.4 Analyze the economic, military, and security motivations of the United States to complete the Panama Canal as well as major obstacles involved in its construction.
SS.912.A.4.5 Examine causes, course, and consequences of United States involvement in World War I.
SS.912.A.4.7 Examine the impact of airplanes, battleships, new weaponry, and chemical warfare in creating new war strategies (trench warfare, convoys).
SS.912.A.4.10 Examine the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles and the failure of the United States to support the League of Nations.
SS.912.A.5.2 Explain the causes of the public reaction (Sacco and Vanzetti, labor, racial unrest) associated with the Red Scare.
SS.912.A.5.4 Evaluate how the economic boom during the Roaring Twenties changed consumers, businesses, manufacturing, and marketing practices.
SS.912.A.5.6 Analyze the influence that Hollywood, the Harlem Renaissance, the Fundamentalist movement, and prohibition had in changing American society in the 1920s.
SS.912.A.5.11 Examine causes, course, and consequences of the Great Depression and the New Deal.
SS.912.A.6.3 Analyze the impact of the Holocaust during World War II on Jews as well as other groups.
SS.912.A.6.5 Explain the impact of World War II on domestic government policy.
SS.912.A.6.10 Examine causes, course, and consequences of the early years of the Cold War (Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, NATO, Warsaw Pact).
SS.912.A.6.12 Examine causes, course, and consequences of the Korean War.
SS.912.A.6.13 Analyze significant foreign policy events during the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations.
SS.912.A.7.8 Analyze significant Supreme Court decisions relating to integration, busing, affirmative action, the rights of the accused, and reproductive rights.
SS.912.A.7.10 Analyze the significance of Vietnam and Watergate on the government and people of the United States.
SS.912.A.7.11 Analyze the foreign policy of the United States as it relates to Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Middle East.
SS.912.W.2.3 Analyze the extent to which the Byzantine Empire was a continuation of the old Roman Empire and in what ways it was a departure.
SS.912.W.2.9 Analyze the impact of the collapse of the Western Roman Empire on Europe.
SS.912.W.2.14 Describe the causes and effects of the Great Famine of 1315–1316, The Black Death, The Great Schism of 1378, and the Hundred Years War on Western Europe.
SS.912.W.2.19 Describe the impact of Japan's physiography on its economic and political development.
SS.912.W.3.4 Describe the expansion of Islam into India and the relationship between Muslims and Hindus.
SS.912.W.3.7 Analyze the causes, key events, and effects of the European response to Islamic expansion beginning in the 7th century.
SS.912.W.2.11 Describe the rise and achievements of significant rulers in medieval Europe.
SS.912.W.4.9 Analyze the Roman Catholic Church's response to the Protestant Reformation in the forms of the Counter and Catholic Reformation.
SS.912.W.4.12 Evaluate the scope and impact of the Columbian Exchange on Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
SS.912.W.4.15 Explain the origins, developments, and impact of the trans-Atlantic slave trade between West Africa and the Americas.
SS.912.W.5.6 Summarize the important causes, events, and effects of the French Revolution including the rise and rule of Napoleon.
SS.912.W.6.5 Summarize the causes, key events, and effects of the unification of Italy and Germany.
SS.912.W.7.3 Summarize significant effects of World War I.
SS.912.W.8.2 Describe characteristics of the early Cold War.
SS.912.W.9.1 Identify major scientific figures and breakthroughs of the 20th century, and assess their impact on contemporary life.
SS.912.E.3.6 Differentiate and draw conclusions about historical economic thought theorized by economists.

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