GCCS Expedition Curriculum Framework

FIRST PEOPLES OF Time SETTLER & TODAY & PREHISTORY THE AMERICAS/ VILLAGE CITY GROWS Period COLONIAL LIFE TOMORROW EXPLORERS TO CITY Approx. Big Bang – First People First Peoples of the European Contact – Canal – Civil War Post Civil War – Space Exploration – Dates 4,500 MYA-12,000 Americas – Pre-Canal 1820-1865 Pre-space exploration Future Years Ago European Contact 1450-1820 1865-1960 1960-Tomorrow 12,000 Years Ago-1600 What were the How did people live How did people How did the village How did industry and Where and how do Over- beginnings of our in earliest times? make choices about become a city? What inventions make a plants and animals arching universe, our What lasting ideas do where to live? What were the successes difference in city live? How do people Question planet, and its we have from early were the beginnings and struggles? life? How did people keep the environment living things? How cultures and of our democracy? take responsibility safe for every living do we know? civilizations? for their community? thing? Prehistoric Life Haudenosaunee Settler Life: The Village Life Technological Pollution and Its Way of Life Prior to Story of the Settle- Changes in Work Effects on Local Time and Sequence 1600 ment of Rochester Community Roles and Play Habitats and Responsibilities Prehistoric Life: Beliefs and Going to New Types of Local Ecosystems K-1 Warm Seas Traditions Places/Reasons for The Need for Rules communities: and Habitats: (trilobite, brachiopod, Change and Laws Urban, Suburban, Plant and Animal eurypterid, horn coral, Family and Rural Adaptations and crinoid) Land Animals Community Roles Economic Economic Systems: Survival needs (mastodon, mammoth) Opportunity: Needs and Wants City Infrastructures Natural Resources: Needs & Wants Early Occupations Food Chain and Food Animal Defenses Food, Clothing, Agricultural Household Web and Shelter, Development of Economy Inventions Fossil Formation: Woodland Animals Community Relationship between Living and Non- Seasons/Cycles: Changing Families Living and Non- living Things Locating Physical Four Seasons living Things: Haudenosaunee Environment/Natural Related Weather Maps Environmental Maps and Globes Nation on Globe and Resources Patterns Change Map How Seasons Habitat Destruction Farming and Crops Affected Villagers’ Conservation of Work Natural Resources Maps and mapping tools

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GCCS Expedition Curriculum Framework

FIRST PEOPLES OF SETTLER & VILLAGE TODAY & PREHISTORY THE AMERICAS/ CITY GROWS COLONIAL LIFE TO CITY TOMORROW EXPLORERS

Origin of the American Indian Living along the America’s First The Nursery Human Effects on Universe Nations of North Genesee River Boom Town Industry World Biomes America Earth’s Place in Geography and Economic Systems: Local Economic Comparing Local the Universe: Climate, Geography, Natural Resources Milling and Water System: Connections Woodland, Pond, and 2-3 Solar System and Natural Power Between Industries - River Biomes with Origin Theories Resources The River as a Printing & Nurseries World Desert, Ocean, Resource for Swamp, Tundra, and The Sun: Source Role of men, women, Transportation, Seeds and Plants: Rainforest Biomes of Heat and Light and children Power, Food, Water, Early Transportation Plant Structures and Irrigation Photosynthesis Wildlife Around the Day and Night Patterns of Forces and Reproduction World: organization and Going to New Interactions: Classification Seasonal Cycles governance Places/Reasons for Simple Machines Climate: Adaptations Change: The Water Cycle Food Web Gravitational Economics of Natural Rochester’s Earliest Changes in Lake Effect Endangered Species Force Resources Settlers and the Seven Communities: Weather Maps Life Cycles (including Settlements Flour City to Flower Metamorphosis) Mapping: Regions of City North America Community Protecting and Interdependence Mapping: City/Street Rehabilitating World Maps Habitats Challenges meeting needs and wants

Scarcity

Beginnings of a Milling Economy

Mapping: State

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GCCS Expedition Curriculum Framework

PREHISTORY FIRST PEOPLES OF SETTLER & VILLAGE CITY GROWS TODAY & THE AMERICAS/ COLONIAL LIFE TO CITY TOMORROW EXPLORERS Earth’s Systems Early People & Formation of The Quest for Immigration and Human Impact on Exploration Democracy in the Freedom Local Industry the Natural World Geosphere: United States Volcanoes Early Peoples of Slavery and Women’s Moving to an Energy: Rocks & Minerals the Americas: Colonization of North Rights: Industrial Economy: Types of Energy 4-5 Land Formations Migration routes America Voices of Dissent Changing Nature of Alternate Sources Layers of the Earth Settlement Revolutionary War The Underground Work of Energy Fossil Formation Natural Resources Declaration of Railroad Industrial Revolution Erosion Independence Civil War Assembly Line Conservation of European Constitution Suffrage Mass Production Natural Resources: Hydrosphere: Exploration: Bill of Rights Working Conditions Water Quality States of Water Looking for Markets Economic and Social Soil Quality Glaciers Trade Opportunities Levels and Functions Issues: The Work Force: River Formation New Resources of Government North vs. South Immigration Role of Science, Population Shifts Engineering, and Biosphere: French & Indian War Colonial Experience: Rochester’s Early Labor Movement Technology Human interaction Europeans Leaders: Child labor with the Earth Mapping the World: Free and enslaved Frederick Douglass Formation of Labor Community Activism World Geography Africans Susan B. Anthony Laws Plate Tectonics Oceans Harriet Tubman Unions Continents Sojourner Truth Mapping New York Land Formations Elizabeth Cady Local Industries & State: Topographical Latitude & Longitude Stanton Entrepreneurs: Maps Austin Steward Eastman Organizing Bausch & Lomb Geological Time Gleason Works Cutler Mail Chutes Ward’s Natural Science Hickey Freeman Food Markets

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GCCS Expedition Curriculum Framework

Sixth Grade Curriculum Examining a “Hot Topic” Affecting Our Community

The Rise of Civilization The Science of Materials Imagining a New Rochester

Posing the problem Properties of Matter City Decision-making Defining the Issue Facing Rochester Mass Who’s Who in City Government Setting Purpose for Year’s Study Volume Process of Making Municipal Projects Density Happen The Evolution of Cities Solubility Issues of Economics and Historic Where People Settled Conductivity Preservation Advances that Made Settlement Possible Chemical Structures of Materials Citizens’ Roles and Responsibilities The Characteristics of Civilizations Compounds Community Activism Settlement in Cities Mixtures Formation of Associations/Societies/grass Labor Specialization Solutions, Roots Organizations Government and Public Works Suspensions Working with City Government Surplus Production and Trade Class Structure Chemical Reactions and Changes in States of Gathering Community Input and Writing, Mathematics, Science Matter Disseminating Information

Gathering Community Input The Components of Cities Atoms, Elements, and The Periodic Table Analyzing Qualitative Data Concentration of People Principles of Marketing Government Models as Representations of Objects, Structures, and Systems Challenges Cities Face Elements of a New Rochester Transportation Housing Sanitation Recreation Food and Water Retail Public Health Historic Preservation Crime Transportation Events

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