Time, Change & Continuity

Understanding time, sequence, and how things change or stay the same across generations.

K–12 objective ladder

• K D08.S1.K.01 Tell a "then and now" story about themselves or their family and how something changed.
• 1 D08.S1.01.01 Sequence three or four events from their own day or week in order, using words like before, after, and next.
• 1 D08.S1.01.02 Compare one thing from long ago with one thing today, such as a tool or a toy, and tell what changed and what stayed the same.
• 2 D08.S1.02.01 Order a few events from their family's or community's recent past on a simple timeline and explain the order.
• 2 D08.S1.02.02 Describe how one part of daily life, such as how people light their homes or get food, has changed over time, and one way it has stayed the same.
• 3 D08.S1.03.01 Place local events or landmarks on a timeline in order and explain how they know the order is correct.
• 3 D08.S1.03.02 Describe how a place or community changed over a long time, such as a river, market, or school, and what caused one of those changes.
• 4 D08.S1.04.01 Use a timeline with dates to sequence events from two different places and compare what was happening at the same time.
• 4 D08.S1.04.02 Compare daily life in an earlier society with life today and identify one thing that changed and one thing that stayed the same.
• 5 D08.S1.05.01 Build a timeline that compares two cultures or civilizations and identify what changed and what stayed the same in each.
• 5 D08.S1.05.02 Explain how a tool or technology, such as writing, the wheel, or the plow, changed how people lived and worked.
• 6 D08.S1.06.01 Explain the difference between a primary source and a secondary source and use each to describe one past event.
• 6 D08.S1.06.02 Describe change and continuity over a period of about a hundred years in one society, giving an example of each.
• 7 D08.S1.07.01 Explain why historians divide time into periods and compare two different calendars or ways of counting years used by different peoples.
• 7 D08.S1.07.02 Analyze the multiple causes and consequences of one major change, such as the spread of an invention or a large migration.
• 8 D08.S1.08.01 Evaluate competing explanations for one major historical change and support a reasoned judgment with evidence.
• 8 D08.S1.08.02 Analyze how a long-running human practice, such as trade, farming, or writing, changed over centuries and what stayed the same.
• 9 D08.S1.09.01 Analyze continuity and change in one global process, such as long-distance trade or the growth of cities, across several regions and centuries.
• 9 D08.S1.09.02 Explain historical perspective, how people in the past saw their world differently, using one specific example.
• 10 D08.S1.10.01 Compare how different societies measured and recorded time and weigh how those systems shaped their sense of the past.
• 10 D08.S1.10.02 Argue for a way to divide a global era into periods and defend where its turning points should fall.
• 11 D08.S1.11.01 Analyze one long-term transformation, such as industrialization or the recent acceleration of human impact, and weigh what was gained and lost for different peoples and the environment.
• 11 D08.S1.11.02 Evaluate how the choice of what counts as significant change shapes historical accounts, using contrasting examples.
• 12 D08.S1.12.01 Weigh competing accounts of change and continuity across global history and form a reasoned synthesis of the evidence.
• 12 D08.S1.12.02 Reflect on their own place in the long, unfinished human story, connecting the past to the present and to possible futures.

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