Virginia SOL VUS.SKILLS

What students need to be able to do

• Select and synthesize evidence from artifacts, primary and secondary sources, charts, graphs, and diagrams to understand historical events.
• Apply geographic skills to determine and predict patterns and trends of people, places, and events.
• Construct arguments using evidence from multiple sources to question and understand historical information.
• Investigate and analyze evidence from multiple sources to draw conclusions about historical events.
• Compare and contrast historical, cultural, economic, and political perspectives.
• Determine cause and effect to analyze connections between historical events.
• Use economic decision-making models to analyze incentives and consequences of historical choices.
• Engage and communicate as an informed individual with different historical perspectives.
• Develop products that reflect understanding of research and content to make real-life historical connections.
• Contextualize, corroborate, and evaluate sources for credibility, propaganda, and bias to determine historical patterns.