Learning Objectives

Connect your curriculum with Running Reality. Match historical inquiry skills to features students can use, and historical topics to highlights they can explore.

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Running Reality · Skill · inquiry Develop historical questions and conduct an inquiry using evidence.	Question the people Primary inquiry step. Collect the evidence Supporting inquiry step. Historical inquiry with Running Reality Enter a historical setting, question people, collect documents, and use the evidence to answer a question. Teachers can guide the inquiry and review students' explanations.
Running Reality · Skill · sources Compare sources and distinguish corroborated claims, conflicting accounts, and gaps in the evidence.	Collect the evidence Primary inquiry step. Camp Russell Alger 1898 In the summer of 1898, approximately 35,000 soldiers arrived for training at an ill-equipped Camp Alger outside of Washington, DC.
Running Reality · Skill · context Explain historical decisions in the context of what people knew, valued, and risked at the time.	Question the people Primary inquiry step. Build a conclusion Supporting inquiry step. People in their historical setting Question people about their choices and support an explanation with evidence. The Independence Hall scene offers delegates' reasons and concerns before ratifying the Declaration of Independence.
Running Reality · Skill · perspectives Compare historical perspectives and explain how a person's role and circumstances shaped their experience.	Question the people Primary inquiry step. 1st Battle of Bull Run 1861 The first major battle of the American Civil War was fought for control of the rail junction near Manassas, Virginia.
Running Reality · Skill · explanation Construct an evidence-based explanation that connects people, places, events, and change over time.	Build a conclusion Primary inquiry step. Visit the moment Supporting inquiry step. Timeline, historical places, and collected evidence Explore a community at a chosen date, connect conversations with documents and places, and explain what the evidence supports and what remains uncertain.

Running Reality · Content · civil-war U.S. history Explain how the American Civil War affected soldiers and civilians, including free and enslaved people.	1st Battle of Bull Run 1861 The first major battle of the American Civil War was fought for control of the rail junction near Manassas, Virginia.
Running Reality · Content · spanish-american-war U.S. history Connect the Spanish-American War with the experiences of people involved in American overseas expansion.	Camp Russell Alger 1898 In the summer of 1898, approximately 35,000 soldiers arrived for training at an ill-equipped Camp Alger outside of Washington, DC.

Running Reality · Content · independence U.S. history Explain the decisions and risks involved in declaring American independence.	American independence — Independence Hall, 1776 In work Meet members of the Second Continental Congress before they ratify the Declaration of Independence. Connect their reasons and concerns with the founding of the United States.
Running Reality · Content · greenwood U.S. history Describe Black entrepreneurship and community life in the early twentieth-century United States.	Black Wall Street — Greenwood, 1921 In work Explore Greenwood before its destruction, talk with Black entrepreneurs, and visit the Williams Theater. Connect businesses, places, and documents to describe the community's economic and cultural life.