• Appropriate GPS standards are displayed
  
• Current U.S. and world maps are displayed
  
• Bulletin boards which display current events, historic documents, or photos of historic figures
  
• Timelines of historic events are displayed
  
• Classroom displays incorporate social studies content vocabulary to reinforce learning
  
• Use of primary source documents such as artifacts, letters, diaries, speeches, oral histories, photographs, court records, and/or autobiographies
  
• Use of secondary sources such as textbooks, newspapers, magazines, and/or biographies
  
• Integrates social studies content into other areas of the curriculum
  
• Use of maps, charts, graphs, and timelines to link content and skills
  
• Incorporate social studies into reading strategies 
  
• Use of appropriate literature - both historical fiction and non-fiction 
  
• Use of community resources to reinforce instruction in social studies
  
• Evidence of character education activities
  
• Participation in student activities such as mock elections, Geography Bee, Social Science Fair, National History Day