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Standards of Learning

Document Bank of Virginia (DBVa) is the Library of Virginia’s initiative to get primary sources into classrooms. Using documents from our collections, teachers can make history relevant to students while helping them learn and understand the Standards of Learning (SOL) developed by the Virginia Department of Education for History as well as other subjects.

Select the links below to find manuscript materials, photographs, maps, audio files, newspapers, and other documents related to events, people, and concepts in specific SOLs for grades 4 –12.

History and Social Science Standards of Learning

 Virginia Studies

 US History to 1865 

 US History 1865 to Present

 Civics and Economics

 World Geography 

 World Geography & Geography 1500 to Present

 Virginia and US History

 Virginia and US Government 

English Standards of Learning 

Art Standards of Learning

 Grade 4

 Grade 5

 Visual Arts

Science Standards of Learning

 Grade 4

 Biology 

 Chemistry 

 Earth Science 

 Physics