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Assess with Charts: Compare and Contrast OrganizerAssess with Charts: Compare and Contrast Organizer
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Polk Bros Foundation
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3rd - 8th
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2008
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Assess with Charts: Compare and Contrast

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If you're short on time and need a quick graphic organizer to help your learners connect history to the present, check out this resource. This worksheet can be useful for a visit to a museum or in conjunction with a reading assignment, in which your young historians note how people traveled and worked in the past and what was important to those people. Then they can compare that to the work and values of people today. 

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

compare and contrast, civilizations

Additional Tags

civilization, compare/contrast, social studies

Pros

  • Straightforward and easy-to-understand worksheet

Cons

  • Consider having learners note other comparisons besides travel, work, and values on the back of the sheet

Common Core

RI.3.2 RI.4.2 RI.5.2 RH.6-8.1

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