Demonstrates Competency in Social Studies

Demonstrates Competency in Social Studies Grade 4 Learning Performance Indicators Possible Evidence Standard 1st 2nd 3rd 4th s Economic understandings Shows basic Describe Describe Describe Describe Can You Live On a Budget-(see worksheet) understandings opportunity opportunity opportunity opportunity of economic costs and their costs and costs and their costs and concepts. relationship to their relationship to their decision making relationship to decision relationship to decision making decision Explain how making making price incentives Explain how affect people’s Explain how price incentives Explain how behavior and price affect people’s price choices incentives behavior and incentives affect choices affect Describe how people’s people’s specialization behavior and Describe how behavior and improves choices specialization choices standard of improves living Describe how standard of Describe how specialization living specialization Explain how improves improves voluntary standard of Explain how standard of exchange helps living voluntary living buyers and exchange helps sellers Explain how buyers and Explain how voluntary sellers voluntary Describe how exchange exchange trade promotes helps buyers Describe how helps buyers economic and sellers trade promotes and sellers activity economic Describe how activity Describe how Give examples trade trade and describe promotes Give examples promotes technological economic and describe economic advancements activity technological activity in the United advancements States Give in the United Give examples and States examples and describe describe Demonstrates Competency in Social Studies Grade 4 technological technological advancement advancement s in the s in the United States United States

Geographic Understandings Locate Explain why Explain how Explain how Describe Georgia Experience workbook pg. 88 important each of the the physical each side physical physical and native American geography of (American or barriers that Nystom map assessment man-made groups occupied each colony British) hindered and (observation) features of the the areas they helped attempted to physical United States did and how it determine use the gateways that affected their economic physical benefited lifestyle. activities geography of territorial practiced each battle site expansion Describe how therein. to its benefit. from 1801 to the early 1861. explorers adapted, or Locate major failed to adapt physical to the various features of physical the US; environments in include the which they Atlantic traveled. Coastal Plain, Great Plains, Continental Divide, the Great Basin, Death Valley, Gulf of Mexico, St. Lawrence River, and the Great Lakes.

Locate major Demonstrates Competency in Social Studies Grade 4 man-made features; include New York City, NY; Boston, MA; Philadelphia, PA; and the Erie Canal. Government and Civic Understandings Identify the Describe The student Georgia Experience Social Studies Quiz Ch. 10-11 roles of the 3 natural rights will explain (See worksheet) branches of (life, liberty, the government pursuit of importance of Georgia Experience workbook pg. 58 happiness) as Americans found in the sharing Have the students write/select a newspaper article about a Declaration of certain current event expressing their views and beliefs about the Independence. democratic topic orally or in writing. beliefs and Understand principles, Tickets out the door. “We the both personal people” from and civic. Three Branches Responsibility Leaves activity (Frameworks the Preamble of attachment 3) the Constitution Federal System Cards (Frameworks attachment 4) Describe the federal system See Social Studies Frameworks for additional activities and of government assessments (legislative, executive, judicial)

Explain the importance of freedom of expression, as written in the 1st amendment to the US constitution.

Explain the functions of government (ie: Demonstrates Competency in Social Studies Grade 4 protecting our rights, checks and balances, how a bill becomes law)** Historical Understandings Describe how Locate where Georgia Experience workbook pg. 8 early Native the Native American Americans Nystrom map assessment (observation) cultures settled with developed in emphasis on Native American Nation GO (attachment 5- Social Studies North America Arctic (Inuit), Frameworks) Northwest (Kwakiutl), Social Studies Assessment “Native American Tribes” (see Plateau (Nez worksheet) Perce), Southwest Native American independent project (see 2 worksheets-A (Hopi), Plains and B. Project B is for challenge students) (Pawnee), and Southeastern Ticket out the door. (Seminole)

Describe how the Native Americans used their environment to obtain food, clothing, and shelter. Describe the Describe the Georgia Experience workbook pg. 15 and 16 reasons, reasons for, obstacles, and obstacles to, Explorer Cards accomplishmen and ts of European accomplishment Explorer Study Guide/Test explorers s of the Spanish, French, and Explorers Graphic Organizer (see worksheet) English explorations of Discovery of North America booklet John Cabot, Vasco Nunez Tickets out the door Balboa, Juan Ponce de Leon, Social Studies Framework (Attachment 17) Demonstrates Competency in Social Studies Grade 4 Christopher Columbus, Explorers writing assessment (see outline) Henry Hudson, and Jacques European Exploration WebQuest Cartier http://iweb.jackson.k12.ga.us/cstewart/exploreres/Home.ht ml Describe examples of cooperation and conflict between Europeans and Native Americans. Compare and Compare and Colony posters independent project (see worksheet and contrast life in contrast life in rubric) the 3 different the New colonial regions England, Mid Colonial Regions Graphic Organizer (attachment 1) Atlantic, and should be used in preparation for Colonial postcards Southern (Frameworks pg. 3) colonies

Describe colonial life in America as experienced by various people, including large landowners, farmers, artisans, women, indentured servants, slaves, and Native Americans. Explain the Trace the Ticket Out the Door-Revolutionary War (see worksheet) causes of the events that American shaped the Graphic Organizer w/ effects (see worksheet) Revolution Revolutionary movement in Demonstrates Competency in Social Studies Grade 4 America including the French and Indian War, Stamp Act, “no taxation without representation” , the activities of the Sons of Liberty, and the Boston Tea Party Explain the Explain the Important Figures of the American Revolution events, results, writing of the Trading Cards (see worksheet) and key Declaration of individuals of Independence Battle webquest the American (who, why, http://iweb.jackson.k12.ga.us/afurney/american Revolution how) revolutionbattles/Home.html and worksheet Describe the major events of Social Frameworks the Revolution Cause and Effect GO and explain the American Revolution (attachment 2) factors leading to American People in the American Revolution Webquests victory and the http://iweb.jackson.k12.ga.us/cstewart/revolution/Home.htm British defeat l (battles of Lexington and http://iweb.jackson.k12.ga.us/afurney/americanrevolutionpe Concord; ople/Home.html Saratoga, Yorktown). Unit Test: Revolutionary War (see worksheet)

Describe key The American Revolution Ticket Out the Door individuals in the American Revolution (King George III, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Demonstrates Competency in Social Studies Grade 4 Thomas Jefferson, Benedict Arnold, Patrick Henry, John Adams). Analyze the Identify the American Revolution and New Nation Assessment (see challenges weaknesses of worksheet) faced by a new government nation established by The American Revolution Ticket Out the Door the Articles of Confederation Chapters 8-14: Quizzes (See worksheets)- Georgia Experience WB Identify the major leaders of the Constitutional Convention (James Madison, Benjamin Franklin), and describe the major issues they debated (Great Compromise, rights of states, slavery).

Identify the roles of the three branches of government.

Identify and explain the Bill of Rights.

Describe the causes of the War of 1812. Describe Describe Westward Expansion webquest Demonstrates Competency in Social Studies Grade 4 territorial territorial www.westernexpansion.shutterfly.com expansion expansion (Louisiana Slate Review Purchase, Lewis and Have the students create Posters and share with the class. Clark expedition, acquisitions of Texas, Oregon (Oregon Trail), and California (Gold Rush and the development of mining towns) Describe the Describe the Have the students draw pictures of the steamboat, the impact of early impact of the steam locomotive, and the telegraph and explain, in writing, inventions on steamboat, how each invention affected life in America. Share with the life in America the steam class. locomotive, and the telegraph on life in America.

Examine the Discuss Have the students create powerpoints as groups or main ideas of biographies of individuals for Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Harriet Tubman. abolition and Harriet Present to the class orally. the suffrage Tubman and movement Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Explain the significance of Sojourner Truth’s Demonstrates Competency in Social Studies Grade 4 address (Ain’t I a Woman? 1851)