Specialized Support 4th Grade Social Studies Scope and Sequence

4th Nine Weeks Period Units of Study: in the 20th Century and Texas, Our Texas Essential Questions / Desired Outcomes 1. What is the importance of the Texas Government and Constitution? 2. Identify and explain the basic functions of the three branches of state government. 3. Identify leaders in state and local governments, such as the governor. 4. What are the qualities of a leader? 5. What is the importance and how can individual volunteer in civic affairs? 6. What are some important contributions of people of various racial, ethnic, and religious groups? 7. Explain the growth, development and impact of various issues and events in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. 8. How and why did people adapt and modify their environment in Texas? 9. What is free enterprise? How does it work? What are the benefits of it? 10. What are geographical factors and how do they affect us? 11. Describe and explain economical growth in Texas. 12. What are some technological changes and how have those technological changes affected Texans? 13. How might future scientific discoveries and technological innovations affect life in Texas? Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Government and Citizenship Innovation & Progress in Texas Innovation & Progress in Texas Classroom Elements • Identify and explain the basic • During the last half of the 19th century, • Explain how people in different (part of every Specialized functions of the three branches of explain the growth, development, and regions of Texas earn their living, Support/ALE 4th Grade government according to the Texas impact of the cattle industry, including past and present, through a Social Studies classroom Constitution contributions made by Charles Goodnight, subsistence economy and providing district wide) • Identify leaders in state, local, and Richard King, and Lizzie Johnson goods and services Use this timeline as a national governments, including the • During the last half of the 19th century, • Explain how geographic factors such guide. Your students’ governor, local members of the identify the impact of railroads on life in as climate, transportation, and natural progress and readiness Texas Legislature, the local mayor, Texas, including changes to cities and resources have influenced the should determine if things U.S. senators, local U.S. major industries location of economic activities in can begin sooner or later. representatives, and Texans who • During the 20th century, identify the Texas have been president of the United impact of various issues and events on life • Analyze the effects of exploration, States in Texas such as urbanization, increased immigration, migration, and limited • Identify leadership qualities of state use of oil and gas, the Great Depression, resources on the economic and local leaders, past and present the Dust Bowl, and World War II development and growth of Texas Texas History Alive • Identify important individuals who • Describe the impact of mass Textbook: have participated voluntarily in civic production, specialization, and affairs at state and local levels. division of labor on the economic Chapter 13: Government growth of Texas North East Independent School District

Specialized Support 4th Grade Social Studies Scope and Sequence in Texas • During the 20th century, explain the development and impact of the oil and gas Chapter 10: The Gate • Explain how individuals can industry upon industrialization and • Explain how developments in Opens to Industry participate voluntarily in civic affairs urbanization in Texas, including important transportation and communication at state and local levels through places and people such as Spindletop and have influenced economic activities Chapter 11: Texans at activities such as holding public Pattillo Higgins in Texas Home and Abroad officials to their word, writing letters • During the 20th century, identify the • Identify ways in which technological participating in historic preservation accomplishments of notable individuals changes in areas such as Chapter 12: Modern and service projects such as Henry Cisneros, Miriam A. transportation and communication Times in Texas • Explain the duty of the individual in Ferguson, Audie Murphy, Cleto Rodriguez, have resulted in increased state and local elections such as and John Tower. interdependence among Texas, the being informed and voting • Describe ways people have adapted to and United States, and the world • Identify the importance of historical modified their environment in Texas, past • Identify oil and gas, agricultural, and figures and important individuals and present, such as timber clearing, technological products of Texas that who modeled active participation in agricultural production, wetlands drainage, are purchased to meet needs in the the democratic process such as energy production, and construction of United States and around the world , , Sam dams • Explain how Texans meet some of Rayburn, Henry B. González, James • Identify reasons why people have adapted their needs through the purchase of A. Baker III, Wallace Jefferson, and to and modified their environment in products from the United States and other local individuals Texas, past and present, such as the use of the rest of the world • Explain how to contact elected and natural resources to meet basic needs, • Identify famous inventors and appointed leaders in state and local facilitate transportation, and enhance scientists such as Gail Borden governments recreational activities (condensed milk), Joseph Glidden • Summarize the contributions of • Describe the development of the free (barbed wire), and Patillo Higgins people of various racial, ethnic, and enterprise system in Texas (Spindletop). religious groups in the development • Describe how the free enterprise system • Describe how scientific discoveries of Texas such as Lydia Mendoza, works, including supply and demand and innovations such as in aerospace, Chelo Silva, and Julius Lorenzo • Give examples of the benefits of the free agriculture, energy, and technology Cobb Bledsoe enterprise system such as choice and have benefited individuals, opportunity businesses, and society in Texas • Predict how future scientific discoveries and technological innovations might affect life in Texas Key Vocabulary Texas Constitution, national Cattle industry, Charles Goodnight, Richard Subsistence economy, goods and Terms governments, local government, Texas King, Lizzie Johnson, the Great Depression, services, climate, transportation, Legislature, civic affairs, service the Dust Bowl, World War II, exploration, immigration, migration, projects, civil duty, voting, democratic industrialization, urbanization, Spindletop, and limited resources, economic

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Specialized Support 4th Grade Social Studies Scope and Sequence

party, republican party, mayor, Pattillo Higgins, John Tower, Scott Joplin, development, mass production, legislative branch, executive branch, Audie Murphy, Cleto Rodríguez, Stanley specialization, division of labor, judicial branch, house of Marcus, Bessie Coleman, Raul A. Gonzalez communication, technological changes, representatives, senate, pledge, Jr., timber clearing, agricultural production, interdependence, agricultural products, Supreme Court, Speaker of the House, wetlands drainage, energy production, Gail Borden, Joseph Glidden, Michael election, Barbara Jordan, appoint, construction of dams, natural resources, basic DeBakey, Millie Hughes-Fulford, political party, governor, Sam , needs, facilitate transportation, recreational aerospace, agriculture, energy, Lorenzo De Zavala, Sam Rayburn activities, free enterprise system, supply and technology, businesses, and society demand

Stations Procedures to teach, model & implement: Key stations to implement: § Visual tools/systems to organize student § Verbal/Linguistic Station: rotation § Literacy Station: books, books on tape, vocabulary development, Book Worm, Step by Step, § Care and use of materials Big Mack § Self-managing behaviors § Fine Motor/Writing Station: journaling, graphing, webbing, illustrating, projects § How to request assistance § Musical/Rhythmic Station: § How to share materials § Logical/Mathematical Station: § Clean-up and storage § Visual/Spatial Station: § Sharing of accomplishments § Bodily/Kinesthetic Station: Sensory Areas, § Naturalist/ Experimental Station: manipulative activities, labs, § Intrapersonal/Introspective Station: § Independent Station: structured activities, extension activities § Interpersonal/Social Station: § Auditory Station: Take Home Teacher Audio Files, § Technology Station: web links, Start-to-Finish books, United Streaming Video, PowerPoint, web quest Communication This section is based on individual student needs (IEPs); however, it may include, but is not limited to the following: § Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) § Voice output device (Assistive Tech Device: Single Statement Output-Big Mack; Three Output Statements- Step by Step, Multi-Single Statement Output- Twin Talk, Seven-level Communication Builder, etc.) § Tactile system/object system § Sign language/functional sign § Write Outloud Software Websites § Discovery Education United Streaming Video (http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/?location=klrn)

Assessments Data collection: work samples, anecdotal records, video tape, photographs, teacher made checklist

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