Social Studies

Map Skills
Map the 50 States
Map Quiz Game
Memorize the 50 States Song
50 States Song - TeacherTube
Rhyming States Song
50 States Song - Alphabetical
50 States and Capitals
The Little Man in the United States Map
50 States - Quizlet

Social Studies
PowerPoints for Review

Social Studies 1st 9 Weeks


  • Map and Globe Skills
  • Essential Question

How do I locate physical features on a map of the United States? How do the elements of maps help us to understand them?
Enduring Understanding:
  • Physical features are created by nature.
  • The physical features of a place make it unique.
  • Maps are visual representations of a portion of the earth.
  • The features of a map help us to understand the information presented.
  • Geographers use a grid system in describe location.
http://www.edu.pe.ca/southernkings/landforms.htm (pictures and information of landforms)
Physical Features of the United States
  • Locate physical features in the United States; include the Atlantic Coastal Plain, Great Plains, Continental Divide, the Great Basin, Death Valley, Gulf of Mexico, St. Lawrence River, and the Great Lakes.
Topic 1 Vocabulary
  • physical feature
  • physical map
  • political map
  • landform
  • coastal plain
  • Continental Divide
  • Great Basin
  • Great Plains
  • Great Lakes

Native Cultures

Essential Question:   How did early Native American cultures develop in North America? How do people adapt to their physical environments?

Enduring Understanding
  • The physical geography of North America had an impact on where and how Native Americans settled.
  • Native Americans used their environments to obtain food, clothing, and shelter.
Unit 2 Vocabulary
  • Inuit
  • Kwakiutl
  • Nez Perce
  • Hopi
  • Pawnee
  • Seminole
  • environment
  • civilization
  • clan
  • settlement
  • permanent
  • irrigation
  • survival
  • surplus
  • climate
  • Arctic
  • Northwest
  • Plateau
  • Southwest
  • Plains
Pawnee
 Settled on the Plains
  • Locate where the Pawnee settled (permanent villages near rivers).
  • Describe how the Pawnee used their environment to obtain food (farming & hunting), clothing (buffalo skin), and shelter (lodges - bark, earth, grass).
Research Links:
Seminole
  Settled in the Southeast
  • Locate where the Seminole settled (villages in Florida).
  • Describe how the Seminole used their environment to obtain food (farming and hunting), clothing (fur & woven grasses), and shelter (along rivers and streams).
Research Links:

Hopi
  Settled in The Southwest
  • Locate where the Hopi settled (permanent villages in present day Arizona).
  • Describe how the Hopi used their environment to obtain food (corn), clothing (woven fabrics and animal hides/hairs), and shelter (pueblo villages).
  • Hopi- People of Peace
Research Links:
Inuit
Settled in the Arctic
  • Locate where the Inuit settled.
  • Describe how the Inuit used their environment to obtain food (caribou & seals), clothing (animals skins), and shelter (igloos)
Research Links:

 Nez Perce
  Settled on the Plateau
  • Locate where the Nez Perce settled (between Cascades & Rockies; migrated and traveled on rivers and settled in valleys).
  • Describe how the Nez Perce used their environment to obtain food (fishing and hunting), clothing (made from trees & shrubs & animal skins), and shelter (lodges).
Research Links:
Kwakiutl
  Settled in the Northwest
  • Locate where the Kwakiutl settled (left their villages in spring, summer, & fall to settle near rivers).
  • Describe how the Kwakiutl used their environment to obtain food (fishing), clothing (cedar tree bark and animal skins), and shelter (cedar tree houses).
Research Links:

Social Studies 2nd 9 Weeks

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Early Explorers

Essential Question:  How was the world changed by the explorations of European nations?
Enduring Understanding
  • Exploration by Europeans led to permanent contact betwenn the Eastern and Western hemispheres.
  • European explorers had different motives for their explorations.
  • Native American culture was permanently changed by European settlement.
  • European exploreres benefited from Native American cooperation.
  • Decisions to send expeditions to the New World incurred opportunity costs.
Topic 1-  Historical Understandings
  • Describes reasons for, obstacles to, and accomplishments of Spanish, French and English explorations of Columbus, Balboa, Ponce de Leon, Cartier, John Cabot and Henry Hudson.
  • Describe examples of cooperation and conflict between Europeans and Native American
  • Identifiy positive character traits of key historic figures

The Colombian Exchange
Columbus 
Columbus
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Ponce de Leon
Cartier
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Cabot
John Cabot
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Henry Hudson
  • explorer
  • expedition
  • conquistador
  • navigation
  • empire
  • monarch
  • cooperation
  • obstacle
  • accomplishment
  • fur trading
  • epidemic
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Topic 2-  Geographical Understandings
  • Describe how the early explorers adapted, or failed to adapt, to the various physical environments in which they traveled.
Topic 2 Vocabulary
  • settlement
  • colony
  • adapt
  • physical environment
Topic 3-   Economic Understandings
  • Describe opportunity costs and their relationships to decision making across time
Topic 3-  Vocabulary
  • opportunity cost
  • decision
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Colonization

Essential Question :  What was life like in the colonies? How did it differ for large land owners, farmers, artisans, women, indentured servants, slaves, and Native Americans?

Enduring Understanding
  • Geography and climate affect economic prosperity.
  • Social and economic status affects lifestyle.
  • Trade is crucial to economic prosperity.
Topic 1-
  • Locate the thirteen colonies on a map, along with major man made features such as New York City, Boston, Philadelphia and the Erie Canal.
  • Explain how physical characteristics of an area help determine economic activities.
Topic 1 Vocabulary
  • Growing season
  • Climate
  • Tidewater
  • Fall line
  • Back country
Topic 2- Colonial Lives
  • Compare and Contrast the lives of large land owners, farmers, artisans, women, indentured servants, slaves and Native Americans.
  • Describe how key colonists (Benjamin Franklin, James Oglethorpe, Ann Hutchinson, William Penn) exhibited traits of honesty, patriotism, courage, trustworthiness.
Topic 2-  Vocabulary
  • Artisan
                    basic information
                    Specific trades
  • Apprentice
                    Basic Info
                    Colonial Trades
  • Plantation
  • Indentured Servant
                    Basic Information
  • Slave
                    Basic information
  • Laborer
  • Debtor
                    History of Debt
  • Proprietor
Topic 3-  Working Together
  • Analyze the factors that affected colonial trade.
Topic 3-  Vocabulary
  • Free Market Economy
  • Free Enterprise
  • Voluntary exchange
  • Industry
  • Specialize
  • Price Incentives

Social Studies 3rd 9 Weeks

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American Revolution

Essential Question
What happens when rulers and those they rule disagree about what is fair treatment?
How did the American colonists react to what they believed to be unfair British rule?

Enduring Understanding
  • Colonists believed that British were treating them unfairly.
  • Several key individuals and events shaped the American Revolution.
  • Several factors led to American victory and British defeat.
Identify the events that led to the Revolutionary movement in America. 
    *French and Indian War
               Basic Info
               Social Studies For Kids
               Effects of French and Indian War    
               Kids Info    
    * British Imperial Policy
                              
    *1765 Stamp Act
                Kids Past
                Social Studies For Kids
                PBS- Great info for reports
    *"taxation without representation
    * " Sons of Liberty"   & their activities
                  Basic information
                                
    *Boston Tea Party
                Social Studies For Kids
                Basic Info
                Kids Past
Topic 1-  Vocabulary
  • Revolution
  • congress
  • boycott
  • commander
  • ally
  • tyranny
  • rebellion
  • tax
  • liberty
  • protest

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Topic 2- Events:
  • Explain the writing of the Declaration of Independence, including who participated in writing it, how it was written, why it was necessary.
Declaration of Independence Information
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Explain specific events that occurred during the war, including:
  • Battles of Lexington
                        Basic info on Lexington and Concord
  • Battle of Concord 
                        Liberty Kids
  • Battle of Yorktown
Identify key individuals and their contributions to the revolution:
  • King George III
                    Social Studies for Kids
                    Encyclopedia
                    Basic Info
  • George Washington
                    George Facts
                    Basic Info
                    Enchanted Learning
                    Bio- advanced
                    Info that will help with reports
  • Ben Franklin
                    Ben Facts
                    More Ben Facts
                   Virtual Interview
                    Ben's Bio with snappy pic
                    Ben's Guide
                    Ben Says
                    PBS Ben Links
                    Ben's ThinkQuest
  • Thomas Jefferson
                    Social Studies for Kids
                    Liberty Kids
                    Monticello site
  • Benedict Arnold
                    Liberty Kids
                    Historic Valley Forge
                    Advanced Info
  • Patrick Henry
                    Liberty Kids
                    Social Studies for Kids
                    Great info for Reports
  • John Adams
Topic 2- Vocabulary
  • Patriot
  • militia
  • Minutemen
  • petition
  • Independence
  • declaration
  • rights
  • treason

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