Grade 4 State Goal 14

State Goal 14: Understand political systems, with an emphasis on the United States.

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Critical to Understand and Master at Use the Internet or library resources to Language Arts: Write a summary of the Grade 4: research the history of the Declaration ideas expressed in the Declaration of 4.14.01 of Independence. Write a paragraph Independence. Analyze the history of the Declaration explaining why it was written and of Independence. (14A) where it was signed.

4.14.02 Write a journal entry describing what Language Arts: Participate in a class Explain the role of the Declaration of the United States would be like today if discussion about the importance of Independence in American life the Declaration of Independence had preserving the Declaration of today. (14A) not been written. Independence. Share your ideas on why it is important to take care of the document.

4.14.03 Write a paragraph explaining the Language Arts: Read the book We the Recognize the United States purpose of the United States Kids: The Preamble to the Constitution Constitution as our nation’s plan of Constitution. Include a summary of of the United States by David Catrow, government. (14A) how the Constitution sets up the Puffin, 2005. Then, write a book report structure of the nation’s government. summarizing it.

Art: Using construction paper, create your own version of the United States Constitution. Include a summary of the preamble and articles of the Constitution.

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4.14.04 Make a three-column chart. Label the Theater: Working in groups, role-play Describe the three branches of the columns Executive Branch, Legislative being tour guides in Washington D.C. national government. (14B) Branch, and Judicial Branch. In each Take turns pretending to lead a group column, write a sentence that of visitors on a tour of Washington D.C. describes the branch’s function in the In your tour, point out important national government. Then, list the buildings to each branch of the national responsibilities of each branch. government, such as the White House, the Capitol building, and the Supreme Court building. Explain to your group what goes on in each of the buildings.

4.14.05 Use the Internet or library resources to Language Arts: Choose one of the Identify state government leaders in find information about members of the members of Illinois’ government from Illinois. (14B) Illinois state government, such as the your list. Use the Internet or library governor, senators, and other leaders. resources to research this person and Make a list of these leaders. Then, write a short biography about him or write one sentence for each leader, her. Include information about the describing the purpose of his or her leader’s life and service in government position in the state government. in your biography.

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4.14.06 Make a list of leaders in your local Language Arts/ Art: Work in groups to Recognize and describe the roles of government, such as the mayor and make a flowchart that shows the local government leaders in your the sheriff. Write a paragraph that structure of the local government in community. (14B) describes the roles and responsibilities your community. Be sure to show the of each member in the local responsibilities of various leaders in government. your community’s local government. Choose one member of your group to share your flowchart with the class.

4.14.07 Use a variety of resources, such as the Art: Create a bulletin board, showing Compare the functions of national, United States Constitution, the Illinois the functions of each level of state, and local governments in the Constitution, and other resources to government. Include information, United States. (14B) gather information about your local, pictures, and drawings that show the state, and national government. Use similarities and differences between the information to create a Venn the three levels of government. diagram that compares and contrasts the levels of government. In your diagram, include examples of specific responsibilities of leaders of each level of government.

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4.14.08 Make a two-column chart about rights Language Arts: Brainstorm a list of Understand and describe rights and and responsibilities of United States rights and responsibilities you have as responsibilities of United States citizens. Label the columns Rights and a member of your class. Include rights citizenship. (14C) Responsibilities. In the Rights column, on your list, such as respect and the make a list of freedoms and rights that right to learn. Include responsibilities, United States citizens have. In the such as participating in class, doing Responsibilities column, list things for your work, and raising your hand. which citizens of the United States are Combine your list with the lists of your responsible for doing. classmates to make a classroom Bill of Rights.

4.14.09 Write sentences that describe the Language Arts: Imagine you have a Describe the importance of responsibilities of voting, obeying laws, friend who recently moved to the responsibilities, such as voting, and paying taxes. Include the possible United States. Write a letter to your obeying laws, and paying taxes. (14C) consequences of not meeting each friend to explain what his or her responsibility in your sentences. family’s responsibilities will be at school, in the community, and in the state.

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4.14.10 Write a paragraph that describes the Language Arts: Create a survey that Explain the significance of the rights significance of the rights and asks adults how and why they exercise and responsibilities that people in your responsibilities that people in your their rights and responsibilities as community and people in Illinois have community and people in Illinois have citizens of your community and as as citizens. (14C) as citizens. citizens of Illinois. Your survey questions may ask about voting, volunteering, or expressing informed opinions. Survey three to five adults and summarize your results in a paragraph to share with the class.

4.14.11 Write a paragraph that explains the Language Arts: Look through Explain how people in the United election process. Include terms, such magazines and newspapers that were States elect government leaders. (14D) as candidates, campaign, and ballot, in published during a recent election. your paragraph. Find out who the candidates were, what party each one belonged to, and who won each election. Make a chart to summarize the information you find.

4.14.12 Use the Internet or library resources to Language Arts: As a class, research Describe how Thurgood Marshall research Thurgood Marshall. Then, information about Brown v. Board of influenced public policy. (14D) write a short biography about his life Education of Topeka. Discuss the and how he worked with the leadership of Thurgood Marshall in government. helping convince the United States Supreme Court to decide that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal”.

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4.14.13 Make a poster that outlines the Language Arts: Write a paragraph Identify the work of Jane Addams and accomplishments of Jane Addams and explaining the impact of Jane Ellen Gates Starr, and discuss the Ellen Gates Starr in working for change Addams’s and Ellen Gates Starr’s work importance of their work in Illinois. in their community. On your poster, on the people of Illinois. (14D) include information about Hull House as well as new laws the women were able to pass.

4.14.14 Write a paragraph about the different Theater: Work in small groups to write Describe how the United States forms of aid the United States offers to a short skit about the United States cooperates with and aids other other countries. Include issues, such providing aid to a country in need. countries. (14E) as poverty, hunger, disease, and Then, perform your skit for the class. disasters, and examples of how the United States provides aid to countries struggling with these issues.

4.14.15 List the characteristics that you think Language Arts: As a class, discuss Identify qualities that make the United make a good leader. Also make a list how the United States can continue to States a world leader. (14E) of characteristics that you think be a world leader. Include ideas, such describe the United States. Compare as maintaining citizens’ freedoms and the two lists. Then, write a paragraph the nation’s economic strength, in your explaining how these qualities make discussion. the United States a world leader.

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4.14.16 Write a journal entry explaining why Language Arts: Use the Internet or Describe the importance of it is important that changes or library resources to learn how a Constitutional Amendments. (14F) amendments can be made to the proposed amendment becomes part of United States Constitution. In your the United States Constitution. Then, entry, give examples of inconsistencies create a flowchart that outlines the between political ideas, such as “all process. men are created equal,” and the way they are carried out—for example, African Americans not being treated equally for many years.

4.14.17 Describe how the Constitution has Language Arts: Research Identify how Constitutional changed throughout history to protect Constitutional Amendments, and Amendments have impacted the the rights and freedoms of all United choose an amendment to write a United States and Illinois. (14F) States citizens. paragraph about. In your paragraph, include how the United States or Illinois might be different if the amendment were not included in the Constitution.

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Significant to Develop at Grade 4: Make a brochure about the Bill of Art: Draw pictures to illustrate the basic 4.14.18 Rights. In your brochure, include freedoms granted by the Bill of Rights, Describe the Bill of Rights and its information about why the Bill of Rights such as freedom of religion, freedom of purpose. (14A) was written, and give examples of speech, freedom of the press, the right rights named in the Bill of Rights. Also to assemble peacefully, and the right to include information about why the Bill petition government. Write a caption of Rights is important to United States for each picture that explains what the citizens. freedoms mean to you and why you think they are important.

4.14.19 Identify the specific rights granted by Language Arts: Participate in a class Understand the role of the Bill of Rights the Bill of Rights, such as freedom of discussion about the idea of due in the United States today. (14A) speech, freedom of religion, and the process of law, as outlined in the Bill of rights to privacy, property, and equal Rights. Discuss what life might be like treatment under the law. Then, write a in other countries that do not recognize journal entry that explains how the Bill due process of law. of Rights applies to your life.

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4.14.20 Use the Internet or library resources to Language Arts: Participate in a class Understand the purpose and find information about the Illinois discussion about the Illinois importance of the Illinois Constitution. Constitution. Write a report explaining Constitution. Compare and contrast the (14A) when and why the Illinois Constitution ideas expressed in the Illinois was written. In your report, include a Constitution with the ideas outlined in summary of the ideas expressed in the the United States Constitution. Make a Illinois Constitution. list of the similarities and differences.

4.14.21 Write an essay that explains why it is Language Arts: Use the Internet or Explain why the United States important that one branch of the library resources to understand the Constitution divides power among national government does not have process that a bill must go through in three branches of government. (14A) more power than the other branches. order to become a law. Create a Use reasons and examples to support flowchart that outlines the steps in the your essay. process. Include the roles of each branch of the national government in the process.

4.14.22 Use the Internet or library resources to Music: Discuss the role that music Describe the significance of the Civil research the Fifteenth Amendment, played in helping to inspire and Rights movement to the rights of which was added to the United States motivate people during the Civil Rights United States citizens today. (14C) Constitution in 1870. Then, write a movement. Listen to a recording of paragraph that describes how the “We Shall Overcome.” Then, discuss Fifteenth Amendment affects the rights why this song gave strength to people of people today. struggling for their rights.

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4.14.23 Use the Internet or library resources to Music: Using the information from your Explain who Ida B. Wells was and why research Ida B. Wells. Write a biography, work in groups to write a she is important to Illinois politics. biography of her life. Discuss her role song about Ida B. Wells. Include (14D) in the founding of the NAACP as well examples of her work as well as her as her role in the woman’s suffrage importance to the state of Illinois in movement in Illinois. your song.

4.14.24 Write a paragraph that explains Upton Art: Read The Jungle by Upton Explain how Upton Sinclair worked for Sinclair’s role in the establishment of Sinclair, Penguin Classics, 2006. Then, change in Chicago. (14D) laws to end unsafe conditions in draw your own cover for the book. Chicago’s meatpacking industry. Include the name of the author, the year the book was written, and a drawing to illustrate the main idea of the book. Present your book cover to the class.

4.14.25 Use the Internet or library resources to Language Arts: As a class, discuss the Recognize the role of groups, such as research the development and purpose benefits and drawbacks of working with the NAACP, in the Civil Rights of the National Association for the a group to create changes in the movement. (14D) Advancement of Colored People community. Make a list of the benefits (NAACP). Use the information to write and drawbacks expressed in the an outline of the NAACP’s involvement discussion. in the Civil Rights movement.

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4.14.26 Make a list of people who played a Language Arts: Write a poem about Describe the woman’s suffrage significant role in the woman’s suffrage the woman’s suffrage movement in movement in Illinois. (14D) movement in Illinois. Write one Illinois. In your poem, include important sentence about each person on your events, leaders, and results of the list that describes their contribution to movement. the movement in Illinois.

4.14.27 Write a definition of the word Theater: Imagine you are participating Explain the United States’ role in negotiation. Then, write a paragraph in a debate about the role the United preventing and resolving conflicts that explains how the United States States should play in world affairs in around the world. (14E) helps solve world conflicts through the future. Work with a partner who will negotiation. take an opposing view of the issue. Use examples from the past to support your arguments in the debate. Perform your debate in front of the class.

4.14.28 Write a paragraph summarizing the Language Arts: Use the Internet or Describe the impact of the Northwest purpose of the Northwest Ordinance of library resources to find out when Ordinance of 1787 on the development 1787. Include information about the Illinois was admitted to the Union. of the United States and Illinois. (14F) impact the Northwest Ordinance had Make an outline of important dates and on the development of the United events that surrounded the admittance States. of Illinois to the Union.

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4.14.29 Make a list of patriotic symbols and Music: Sing “The Star Spangled Explain the significance of political ideas in the United States. Include Banner” aloud as a class. symbols and mottoes of the United specific monuments, songs, holidays, States, Illinois, and your community. and mottoes in your list. Then, write a (14F) sentence about each symbol or idea, explaining what it represents and why it is important to the United States.

Useful to Work on at Grade 4: Choose a method of becoming Art/Language Arts: Find information 4.14.30 involved in government, such as about upcoming board meetings in Discuss ways citizens can become writing a letter to a government leader your community’s government. Use the involved in government other than or signing a petition. Write a paragraph information to make a calendar voting. (14D) that discusses how the method you showing the schedule. Then, write a chose can be an effective way for a paragraph that encourages people to citizen to participate in government. attend the meetings.

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Grade 4 State Goal 15

State Goal 15: Understand economic systems, with an emphasis on the United States.

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Critical to Understand and Master at Write a paragraph explaining how the Language Arts: Read the book The Grade 4: United States economy has shifted Kids’ Business Book by Arlene 4.15.01 from a mostly agricultural economy to Erlbach, Lerner Publishing Group, Explain how the United States a manufacturing and service-related 1998. Then, write a summary of the economy has changed over time. economy. economic concepts discussed in the (15A) book.

4.15.02 Write a report that describes the Art: Draw pictures to illustrate jobs in Recognize industries that are important manufacturing, agricultural, and your community. Decide whether each to the economy of the United States. services industries in the United States job is a part of the manufacturing, (15A) economy. agricultural, or service industry. Label each of your pictures with the appropriate industry title.

4.15.03 Create a poster describing the free Language Arts: Do library research Describe the free market economy of market economy of the United States. find a book about how the economic the United States. (15A) Include information about how a free system of the United States works. market economy works and how one Write a book report to summarize the works in the United States. Use writing, information you learned. Then, present pictures, diagrams, or other visual your book report to the class. representations to complete your poster.

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4.15.04 Create a brochure about the economy Language Arts: Working with a Explain Illinois’ economy and its place of Illinois. In your brochure, explain the partner, write a report about a major in the global market. (15A) importance of manufacturing and industry in the Illinois economy. In your farming to Illinois’ economy, as well as report, provide information about the growing industries that allow Illinois to industry as well as how the industry compete in the global market. has helped the economy of Illinois.

4.15.05 Write a journal entry describing the Language Arts: Make a chart showing Understand basic economic concepts concept of scarcity. In your entry, how prices are affected when goods or related to scarcity. (15B) explain how scarcity affects the services are scarce. Include the choices consumers make. concepts of supply and demand in your chart as well.

4.15.06 Think about a recent choice you had to Theater: Work with a partner to role- Explain that when making an economic make. Explain the situation and the play making economic choices. Use choice, something else is given up. options that were available to you. items from your class to pretend to (15B) Describe the decision you made and purchase or trade. While you are role- identify what you gave up as a result of playing, discuss how you are giving your decision. something up in order to gain something else.

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4.15.07 Write a short story about a child your Art: Design a poster about consumer Identify the trade-offs and opportunity age making an economic decision. In choices. Label your poster Opportunity costs in a personal choice. (15B) your story, include information about Costs. Draw or cut out pictures that the choice he or she must make and represent people making consumer the trade-offs and opportunity costs of choices. Under each picture, write a his or her decision. sentence about the possible opportunity costs or trade-offs involved in the consumers’ choices.

4.15.08 Create a flowchart that outlines the Language Arts: Participate in a class Analyze the steps in making a wise steps involved in making a wise discussion about a specific economic economic choice. (15B) economic decision. choice. Use the information from the class discussion to point out each of the steps in the decision-making process.

4.15.09 Write a journal entry explaining why Math: Collect all of your loose change Recognize saving as an economic you think people save their money. In in one place for a month. When the choice. (15B) your entry, include benefits of saving month is over, count the change to see money as well as the opportunity costs how much money you can save in one of choosing to save your money. month. Multiply that number by 12 to estimate how much money you can save in one year just by saving loose change.

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4.15.10 Use the Internet or library resources to Art: Work with a partner to draw a Analyze the affects of demand on the learn about the agricultural market in diagram that shows the effects of price of goods, and apply the principle Illinois. Write a paragraph analyzing demand on the price of agricultural to Illinois’ agricultural market. (15B) how changes in demand will affect the goods in Illinois. Present your diagram price of agricultural goods in Illinois. to the class.

4.15.11 Make a list of goods made from Art: Choose a renewable resource, Analyze the roles of renewable and renewable and nonrenewable such as trees. List as many goods as nonrenewable resources in the resources. Choose a few of the goods you can think of that can be made from production of goods. (15C) on your list to compare and contrast. this renewable resource. Draw pictures Then, write a paragraph explaining the to illustrate each of the goods on your relationship between the prices of list. these goods and the type of resources required to produce the goods.

4.15.12 Write a paragraph about each of the Language Arts: Use the Internet or Describe the three types of resources three factors of production. In your library resources to find information associated with factors of production. paragraphs, give specific examples of about a manufactured good. Make a (15C) resources for each factor of production. three-column chart, listing the capital resources, human resources, and natural resources needed to manufacture the good.

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4.15.13 Choose a manufactured good, such as Language Arts: Write a short story Explain how producers turn raw your favorite toy, and list the raw from the point of view of a materials into goods for consumers. materials needed to produce it. Then, manufactured good, such as a jar of (15C) create a flowchart that shows the peanut butter. Your story should manufacturing process of the good. describe the product’s manufacturing process from raw materials to the finished product. Share your story with the class.

4.15.14 Make a two-column chart about the Language Arts: Write a letter to a Analyze how Illinois industries compete advantages and disadvantages of a business owner in your community, in the global market. (15C) company in Illinois competing in the asking how his or her business global market. Label the columns competes in the global market. Ask the Advantages and Disadvantages. In business owner to describe his or her your chart, categorize ideas, such as business’s competition. having a large consumer base and facing more competition.

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4.15.15 Make a table with five rows and four Theater: Work in groups of five to role- Discuss regional interdependence of columns. Label the first column play interdependence among regions. the United States. (15D) Regions and list the five geographical Each member of your group should regions, Southeast, Northeast, choose a different geographical region Midwest, Southwest, and West, in the and pretend to own a manufacturing five rows. Use the Internet or library business in the region. Take turns resources to do research about each pretending to exchange resources and region. In the second column, list crops raw materials with each other in order and resources found in each region. In to produce your goods. Keep in mind the third column, list the natural that you should only obtain a resource resources required to make some of from a geographical region where the the products manufactured in each resource is available. region. In the fourth column, identify the resources each region must buy from other regions in order to produce the goods.

4.15.16 Use the Internet or library resources to Math: As a class, research the total Understand global interdependence research information about Illinois’ value of last year’s imports and and trade. (15D) imports and exports. Write a paragraph exports from the United States, to summarize the information from your Canada, China, Germany, Japan, and research. Mexico. Use the information from your research to make a table that compares the data.

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4.15.17 Use the Internet or library resources to Language Arts: Write a description of Explain how colleges and universities research a college or university in what you would like to do when you help the economy by training workers Illinois. Write a paragraph to explain grow up. Then, make a list of five to do specialized jobs. (15D) how this college or university promotes schools in Illinois or around the country specialization in a field or in a variety of that are known for their programs in fields. the field of study in which you are interested.

4.15.18 Use the Internet or library resources to Language Arts: Use the concept of Identify the division of labor in a simple identify the top five goods produced in division of labor to describe the production process. (15D) Illinois. Choose one good from the list process of how a family cooks and make a flowchart to show its breakfast. Write a step-by-step production process. On the chart, point instruction manual about the roles out the division of labor in the each family member plays in cooking production process. your favorite breakfast meal. Assign titles to each family member involved in the process, such as the mixer and the stirrer. Then share your manual with the class.

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4.15.19 Make a three-column chart about Art: Create a poster about services Understand the services provided by government services. Label the provided by the government. On your each level of government. (15E) columns National Government poster, include information about Services, State Government Services, services provided by national, state, and Local Government Services. In and local governments. Present your each column, list services that are poster to the class. provided by the corresponding level of government.

4.15.20 Use a dictionary or your textbook’s Math: Participate in a class discussion Understand the purpose of taxes. glossary to learn the definition of the about sales tax. Use Illinois’ sales tax (15E) word tax. Write the definition on one rate to find out how much tax you pay side of an index card. On the other for goods of different prices. For side of the index card, use your own example, find out how much tax you words to describe the meaning of the would pay on a purchase of $30 based word tax. on Illinois’ tax rate.

4.15.21 Write a journal entry to explain why it is Music: Work with a group to write a Recognize taxes as the way important for people to pay taxes. In song about taxes. In your song, government services are paid for. your entry, identify the consequences explain why taxes are important and (15E) of what might happen if people did not identify services that are provided to pay taxes. the public as a result of taxes. Sing your song to your classmates.

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4.15.22 List services your local government Art: Find pictures from magazines and Identify public services paid for by can provide as a result of taxes. newspapers to show many of the taxes in Illinois. (15E) Include the construction of public services provided by the government schools, garbage collection, and of Illinois. Then, make a collage using maintenance of traffic signs as items these pictures. on your list.

Significant to Develop at Grade 4: Write a one-page report to explain Language Arts: Choose one of the 4.15.23 what the global economy is and how it United States’ trading partners, such Describe the global economy and how works. In your report, include as Canada, Mexico, Japan, China, or it works. (15A) information about the United States’ Germany, and learn more about our place in the global economy. nation’s trade with this country. Use the Internet or library resources to find out what the United States exports to imports from the country. Write a short report to summarize your findings. Share your report with the class.

4.15.24 Use the Internet or library resources to Art: Create a time line of the events of Describe the impact of the Great research information about the Great the Great Depression. On your time Depression and unemployment on Depression. In your research, include line, include the closing of businesses Illinois and the United States. (15A) information about work and life in and loss of jobs in specific industries. Illinois during the Great Depression. Then, write a report that describes the Great Depression and the impact it had on Illinois and the United States.

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4.15.25 Write an essay that analyzes why relief Language Arts: Imagine a member of Analyze President Franklin D. programs, such as President Franklin your family was one of the millions of Roosevelt’s New Deal and other relief D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, were Americans to obtain a job as a result of programs for unemployed citizens. important to the nation in the 1930s. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s relief (15A) programs. Write a letter to President Roosevelt, explaining to him how the relief programs have helped your family.

4.15.26 Write a paragraph about the impact of Language Arts: Choose a specific Discuss the factors that have the growing tourism and service industry that has contributed to the contributed to Illinois’ economic industries in Illinois. Include specific growth of Chicago. Present information growth. (15B) examples of tourism or service-related to the class about why the industry is industries that have contributed to the important to the people of Chicago. growth of Illinois’ economy.

4.15.27 Look at a land use and products map Math: Use the Internet or library Identify Illinois’ competition in corn and of the United States. Make a list of resources to research the production of soybean production. (15C) states where corn is grown and a list of soybeans in the Great Lakes states of states where soybeans are produced. Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, and Minnesota. Write a paragraph explaining how the Use the data you collect to make a bar number of states producing these graph, showing each state’s production goods might affect their prices. of soybeans over the last two years. Be sure to use a different color to represent each state in your bar graph.

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4.15.28 Discuss some ways technology has Language Arts: Participate in a class Identify technological changes that improved the farming industry. discussion about technology. Make a allowed increased agricultural Research and draw a picture of a class list of technological inventions. production in the Great Plains states. horse-drawn plow and a mechanical Use the list to identify inventions that (15C) reaper. Then, write a short paragraph have improved agriculture. comparing and contrasting the two methods.

4.15.29 Look at a map of the United States to Art: Make a travel brochure about the Understand the economic identify the location of the Atlantic Atlantic Coast states. In your brochure, specialization in the Atlantic Coast Coast states. Write a paragraph include information about natural states. (15D) suggesting industries and economic resources, economic activities, and activities these states can specialize in human features of the states in this based on their location. region.

4.15.30 Make a list of items that are taxed in Language Arts: Write a paragraph that Identify the items that are taxed in your Illinois. Ask your parents or guardians describes each form of taxation in state. (15E) what other kinds of taxes they pay as Illinois. residents of the state of Illinois.

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Useful to Work on at Grade 4: Explain why the government sets some Theater: Participate in a class 4.15.31 limits on economic activities in the free discussion about what might happen if Discuss the role of the government in market economy of the United States. the government did not set any limits the free market economy of the United Use ideas, such as safety and on businesses. Then, work in groups States. (15A) pollution, to support your explanation. to create a skit, demonstrating one of the possible consequences of not having limits in a free market economy. Ideas for your skit might include dangerous working conditions, harmful effects on the environment, or danger to consumers.

4.15.32 Use the Internet or library resources to Health: As a class, discuss ranching Identify how Joseph McCoy, an learn about Joseph McCoy and the and why some ranchers today have entrepreneur, contributed to the stockyard he built in 1867 to ship beef switched from raising cattle to raising ranching industry. (15C) cattle to cities in the east. Then, write a bison, a native animal of the Plains. paragraph explaining how McCoy’s Analyze how bison meat is leaner and entrepreneurship contributed to the has less fat and cholesterol than beef, spread of the ranching industry. and how health reasons might have contributed to why ranchers have switched to raising bison.

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4.15.33 Use the Internet or library resources to Language Arts: As a class, discuss Identify areas of economic research the field of fiber-optic about the telecommunications industry. specialization in high-tech industries in communications in Illinois. Then, write In your discussion, explain how Illinois. (15D) a paragraph to summarize the manufacturers in Illinois specialize in information from your research. making parts for the telecommunications industry.

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Grade 4 State Goal 16

State Goal 16: Understand events, trends, individuals and movements shaping the history of Illinois, the United States and other nations.

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Critical to Understand and Master at Bring in photographs or other objects Art: Design an advertisement for a Grade 4: that tell about your family’s history. place that you think people should visit 4.16.01 Then, write a paragraph about how in order to learn about the history and Understand how and why Americans your photographs and objects protect culture of Illinois. protect and preserve their history and and preserve your family’s history and culture. (16A) culture. Include an explanation of how and why Americans protect and preserve their history and culture.

4.16.02 Read an article from today’s Language Arts: Make a list of aspects Understand the difference between newspaper. Then, use the Internet or of writing that almost always indicate factual and fictional sources. (16A) library resources to find a fictional fiction, such as extreme exaggeration, book that talks about something the talking of animals, or a setting in similar to the subject that you read the future. Discuss why these aspects about in the article. Write a paragraph indicate a piece is fictional. Then, about how these sources are different. brainstorm aspects of a factual source.

4.16.03 Write a short story that includes Language Arts: Read On the Banks of Analyze geographical and historical geographical and historical information Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder, information expressed in literature. from a time in the history of Illinois. Harper Collins Children’s Books, 1994. (16A) While reading, take notes on the geographical and historical information in this piece of literature. Share your notes with the class.

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4.16.04 Read Tanya’s Reunion by Valerie Science: Use the Internet or library Understand the rural history of the Flournoy, Dial Publishing, 1995. Take resources to research the rural history Southeast as portrayed in fiction. (16A) notes on how the rural history of the of the Southeast. Then, write a Southeast is portrayed in this piece of paragraph explaining how authors can fiction. Then, write a paragraph that use historical information to write a summarizes your notes. piece of fiction that educates the reader about history.

4.16.05 Make a two-column chart with the Art: Use the Internet or library Discuss how the colonists lived under labels British Government and resources to look at photographs or two governments. (US) (16B) Colonial Government. Then, fill in the paintings that show how colonists lived. columns with how the British colonists Then, design your own painting lived under these two governments. showing their ways of life.

4.16.06 Make a two-column chart with the Language Arts: Analyze the first words Understand how the United States labels United States Constitution and of the Constitution: “We the people…” Constitution was written to replace the Articles of Confederation. Then, fill in Then, write a paragraph describing Articles of Confederation. (US) (16B) the columns with details about each how these words emphasize governing document. Complete the democracy. sentence: (The United States Constitution) was written to replace the (Articles of Confederation) because (Americans saw that the national government set up in the Articles of Confederation was too weak).

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4.16.07 Draw a map of the 13 colonies. Point Language Arts: Analyze the quotation Explain the role of the Northeast in the out the Northeast region. Write a brief “No taxation without representation!” American Revolution. (US) (16B) report about people and places in the Then, write a paragraph explaining why Northeast that were involved in the you think people in the Northeast were American Revolution. concerned about taxes.

4.16.08 Make a cause and effect diagram that Music: Listen to a recording of “Yankee Identify major causes of the American shows the major causes of the Doodle.” Use the Internet or library Revolution and its consequences in American Revolution. Then, write a resources to research the song. Write Illinois. (US) (16B) paragraph about how the American a paragraph about how it became a Revolution influenced the formation of patriotic American song. the Illinois Territory.

4.16.09 Write a paragraph that discusses the Art: Create a poster advertising the Discuss the importance of the Lincoln- Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858. 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates. On the Douglas debates on the political Explain how this helped Abraham poster, make sure to explain which process of the nation. (US) (16B) Lincoln become the President of the issues Lincoln and Douglas disagreed. United States.

4.16.10 Make a word web with the name Math: Draw a pie chart with 3 equal Analyze Thomas Jefferson’s Thomas Jefferson in the middle. Fill in parts. In each section, write one perspective on how much control the the surrounding bubbles with his contribution that Thomas Jefferson government should have as the United perspective of how much control the made in United States history. Then, States grew stronger. (US) (16B) government should have, as the write a paragraph that tells how United States grew stronger. Jefferson’s contributions changed the lives of people in the United States.

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4.16.11 Make a sequence chart about how Language Arts: Imagine that you live in Describe Illinois’s progression from Illinois went from a territory to a state. the Illinois Territory in 1817. Write an territory into statehood. (US) (16B) Make sure to include dates in your editorial for the local newspaper sequence chart, such as the arguing that Illinois should apply for Northwest Ordinance (1787), the statehood. Describe why statehood Illinois Territory (1809), and Illinois would benefit the residents and how statehood (1818). Illinois would benefit the United States.

4.16.12 Write a paragraph that describes why Theater: Take turns role-playing Describe how Abraham Lincoln was Abraham Lincoln is credited as being Abraham Lincoln when he joined the credited as being the first President the first President under a new political Republican party. Explain why you under a new political party. (US) (16B) party. joined and what you hope to accomplish by joining the party.

4.16.13 Look at a map of the United States in Language Arts: Imagine that you are Analyze how the United States 1791, and then look at a map of the living in the United States before the changed as a result of the Louisiana United States in 1803. Then, write a Louisiana Purchase. Write an editorial Purchase in 1803. (US) (16B) paragraph about how the Louisiana agreeing or disagreeing with the Purchase changed the United States Louisiana Purchase. Explain how the between 1791 and 1803. purchase could affect the United States negatively or positively.

4.16.14 Make a two-column chart and label the Language Arts: Write a journal entry as Understand the differences between columns Enslaved Person and an enslaved person. Then write a an enslaved person and an indentured Indentured Servant. Then, fill in the journal entry as an indentured servant. servant. (US) (16C) columns with the characteristics of an How are these two journal entries enslaved person and an indentured similar? How are they different? servant.

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4.16.15 Write a paragraph that discusses why Art: Draw a picture of a large Southern Discuss the dependence of Southern Southern plantations were dependent plantation, a farm in Illinois, or an plantations on slave labor and the on slave labor. Then, write a industry in Illinois. Then, make a effect of using enslaved workers on paragraph that discusses the use of diagram showing how the plantation, farms and in industries in southern enslaved workers in southern Illinois. the farm, or the industry used enslaved Illinois. (US) (16C) workers.

4.16.16 Write a report on Alexander Graham Science: Use the Internet or library Analyze the influence of individuals, Bell and Thomas Edison. In your resources to research how the such as Alexander Graham Bell and report, explain how they influenced the telephone and the light bulb work. Thomas Edison, on the American American economy. Then, write an essay analyzing the economy. (US) (16C) importance of these inventions in American history.

4.16.17 Write a report that explains how Henry Theater: As a class, plan to assemble Analyze the influence of the assembly Ford’s assembly line made something using building blocks. line and of Henry Ford on the automobiles more affordable. Analyze Assign each person a different job and American economy. (US) (16C) the impact of the assembly line on the work in an assembly line to create it. American economy.

4.16.18 Write an essay that summarizes the Language Arts: Write a paragraph Analyze the influence of Robert life of Robert McCormick and how he about owning a business and McCormick on the American economy. changed the American economy. becoming an entrepreneur. (US) (16C)

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4.16.19 Use the Internet or library resources to Science: Use the Internet or library Analyze the influence of individuals, research the lives of George resources to research the inventions such as George Washington Carver, Washington Carver, John Deere, and and ideas of George Washington John Deere, and Eli Whitney, on the Eli Whitney. Then, write short Carver, John Deere, and Eli Whitney. agricultural economy of the United summaries that explain how each Then, write an essay about how their States. (US) (16C) individual affected the agricultural inventions and ideas still impact the economy of the United States. United States today.

4.16.20 Make a bar graph showing how Math: Use the Internet or library Describe industrial growth, industry, immigration, and labor reform resources to research the number of immigration, and labor reform in the grew during the 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, immigrants who came to the United late 1800s. (US) (16C) 1890s, and 1900s. States between 1860 and 1900. Make a line graph to summarize your findings.

4.16.21 Make a list of the changes in Science: Research new methods of Explain how changes in transportation transportation and immigration that led transportation, such as railroads and and immigration led to growth in the to growth in the Midwest and in cities automobiles, that helped cities grow. Midwest and in cities in the Northeast. in the Northeast. Think about how Draw a conclusion about how these (US) (16C) immigrants used transportation to inventions shaped the nation. reach the Midwest and Northeast. Then, write a paragraph summarizing the information.

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4.16.22 Make a list of the new types of Art: Create an advertisement for a type Describe the economic affects of transportation available in the 1800s of transportation newly available in the changes in transportation during the and early 1900s. Then, write a 1800s or early 1900s. 1800s and early 1900s. (US) (16C) paragraph that describes the economic affects of these changes.

4.16.23 Use the Internet or library resources to Art: Create a poster that advertises one Describe the impact of the Great research the impact of the Great of the New Deal programs in Illinois. Depression and World War II on Illinois Depression and World War II on Try to think of a slogan that would help and the United States. (US) (16C) Illinois and the United States. Then, people remember that program. write a report that summarizes your research, including New Deal programs, the home front during the war, and the sacrifices people made for the war.

4.16.24 Use the Internet or library resources to Art: Use the Internet or library Identify and discuss the influence of research the immigration of Europeans resources to research the cultures in European immigrants on the Great from countries such as Ireland, your city. Learn about your city’s sister Lake states in the 1800s. (16D) Germany, Sweden, England, Austria, city or cities and analyze their Hungary, Norway, Poland, and Russia, relationship. Then, create a collage to the Great Lake states. Then, based on your findings. choose a city in the Great Lakes states that has been influenced by a group of immigrants. Write a description of how this group has affected the culture of the city.

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4.16.25 Make a time line of the Spanish Language Arts: Imagine that you are a Describe the Spanish exploration of exploration of the Southwest, including Spanish explorer of the Southwest. the Southwest. (US) (16D) the following dates: Francisco Write a journal entry that describes the Vásquez de Coronado leaves Mexico sights you see, the people you meet, and spends the next two years and how you live. exploring the Southwest (1540); the Spanish begin to build Santa Fe, New Mexico (1610).

4.16.26 Choose an explorer of the United Language Arts: Write a short story Understand the accomplishments of States, and write a biography about pretending that you are an early explorers of the United States. (US) that person. Include why that person explorer of the United States. Describe (16D) chose to explore the United States, what you hope to accomplish by what the explorer found there, and the exploring the new land. accomplishments of that explorer.

4.16.27 Make a two-column chart. Label the Language Arts: Make a list of Understand the lives of settlers on the columns obstacles to overcome and questions that you would like to ask a frontier. (US) (16D) the ways they were overcome. Then, settler about his or her life on the fill in the chart with information about frontier. Share your questions with the the lives of settlers on the frontier. class.

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4.16.28 Make a time line of events that led up Math: Figure out how many years Understand how and when the to the Southwest region becoming part passed between dates on your time Southwest region became part of the of the United States. Include important line of the Southwest region becoming United States. (US) (16D) dates, such as the Mexican-American part of the United States. For example: War and when each state in the How many years after Mexico gained Southwest became part of the United its independence from Spain did Texas States. gain its independence from Mexico? (15 years) How many years after Texas became a state did Arizona and New Mexico become states? (67 years).

4.16.29 Make a word bubble with the words Language Arts: Imagine that you plan Explain why settlers moved to the Why Settlers Moved West in the to move to the West. Write a list of West. (US) (16D) middle. Fill in the surrounding bubbles questions that you would want to ask with why settlers moved to the West. someone already living in the West.

4.16.30 Make a flow chart that describes the Language Arts: Write an advertisement Describe the process of settling the process of settling the Northwest to attract settlers to the Northwest Northwest Territory. (US) (16D) Territory. Territory.

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4.16.31 Write a paragraph that summarizes Art: Create an illustration of one aspect Understand who settled the Illinois who settled the Illinois Territory, where of life in the Illinois Territory. You may Territory, where they came from, how they came from, how they lived, and wish to illustrate pioneers traveling they lived, and how roads and towns how roads and towns developed in the over land by wagon, traveling across developed in the area. (US) (16D) area. rivers on flatboats, building cabins, clearing trees for farmland, planting, harvesting, gathering eggs, hunting, fishing, cooking food, or sewing clothes.

4.16.32 Write a paragraph describing the Art: Use the Internet or library Identify the importance of the Great Great Migration and its impact on resources to research paintings by Migration. (US) (16D) society today. Jacob Lawrence that show the Great Migration. Write a paragraph about how Lawrence’s art depicts the Great Migration.

4.16.33 Make a time line of important events Language Arts: Write an essay about Describe the Civil Rights movement during the Civil Rights movement. the Civil Rights movement. Include and leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther Then, write an essay about leaders of information about the forms of protest King, Jr. (US) (16D) the Civil Rights movement such as Dr. you feel were the most effective. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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4.16.34 Write a biography describing Ida B. Language Arts: Use the Internet or Describe the contributions of Ida B. Wells and her contributions to the Civil library resources to research a group Wells to the Civil Rights movement. Rights movement. that has worked for equal rights. (US) (16D) Research the accomplishments of the group to gain civil rights and any ongoing challenges the group faces. Summarize your findings in a written report.

4.16.35 Make a cause and effect chart that Art: Make a list of things that you can Analyze how the Great Migration shows how the Great Migration see in the Chicago area that are contributed to the influence of African contributed to the influence of African influenced by African American culture. American culture in the Chicago area. American culture in the Chicago area. Then, make a mural that illustrates (US) (16D) your findings.

4.16.36 Make a cause and effect chart that Language Arts: Write a letter to a Explain how the settlement of the shows how the settlement of the Great person who is about to settle in the Great Plains affected Native Plains affected Native Americans in Midwest. Give them advice on how to Americans in the Midwest. (US) (16D) the Midwest. live peacefully alongside the Native Americans.

4.16.37 Write a paragraph that describes early Art: Draw a map of Illinois. Choose a Describe the early settlements built settlements that were built along the waterway in Illinois, and write a along the waterways in the Central waterways in the Central Plains. paragraph describing how that Plains. (US) (16E) waterway is important to the continued growth of Illinois.

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4.16.38 Write a paragraph that describes what Language Arts: Imagine that you are a Describe how early settlers were made early settlers want to move to Native American living in the Northwest drawn to the fertile lands of the the Northwest Territory. Territory before the settlers came. Northwest Territory. (US) (16E) Write a paragraph to describe how you use things around you to make food, shelter, clothing, and tools.

4.16.39 Write a paragraph that describes why Language Arts: Pick a European Describe the aims, obstacles, and European explorers came to the explorer and write a scene about their accomplishments of European Americas and what they found there. contact with Native Americans. explorers. (US) (16E)

4.16.40 Look at a map of the Mississippi River. Language Arts: Use the Internet or Describe the importance of the Then, write a paragraph about the library resources to research fictional Mississippi River to early settlers as a importance of the river to early books that are set on the Mississippi source of water, a means of settlers. River, such as The Adventures of transportation, and a source of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. Then, recreation. (US) (16E) write a paragraph about why you think the Mississippi River was used as a setting by many authors.

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4.16.41 Use the Internet or library resources to Language Arts: Work with a partner to Understand how climate and weather research the weather in Illinois, write a weather report. Use the Internet affected settlement and early life. (US) Florida, Texas, Montana, and or library resources to research the (16E) California. Make a table using what weather in your community and in the you learn. In one column, list details Midwest. Then, present your weather about the state’s climate. In another report to the class. column, write ideas about how the state’s weather might have affected settlement and early life in the area.

4.16.42 Use the Internet or library resources to Science: Use the Internet or library Describe how the discovery of the find maps that show the South Pass. resources to research minerals in the South Pass led to the settlement of the Then, write a paragraph that explains West. Then, write a report that West. (US) (16E) how the South Pass contributed to the describes how the minerals were used settlement of the West. long ago and how they are used today.

4.16.43 Write a short biography of John Muir, Science/Language Arts: Use the Examine the life of John Muir and his including his role in the conservation Internet or library resources to role in the conservation movement. movement. research John Muir’s role in the (US) (16E) conservation movement. Then, write a paragraph about how you can follow in his footsteps and help the conservation movement, too.

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4.16.44 Use the Internet or library resources to Art: In 1998, Margaret Murie was Examine the life of Margaret Murie and research the life of Margaret Murie. awarded the Presidential Medal of her work to protect the environment of Then, write a biography that Freedom for her conservation work. the West. (US) (16E) summarizes her life and her work to Create an award for you to give to a protect the environment of the West. person for their work in conservation.

4.16.45 Make a list of the many contributions Science: Use the Internet or library Discuss President Theodore that Theodore Roosevelt made to resources to research conservation Roosevelt’s contributions to environmental conservation. Then, programs in your community or in environmental conservation, including write a paragraph that describes why Illinois. As a class, make a list of ways the creation of the National Parks you would like to visit a part of the that you can help the conservation System. (US) (16E) National Parks System. programs in your community or in Illinois.

4.16.46 Use the Internet or library resources to Language Arts: Use the Internet or Describe the importance of the find maps of the Transcontinental library resources to research cities Transcontinental Railroad to westward Railroad. Then, write a paragraph along the route of the Transcontinental migration. (US) (16E) describing how the Transcontinental Railroad. Then, write an essay that Railroad contributed to westward draws conclusions as to why these migration. cities developed alongside the railroad.

4.16.47 Look at a map of Chicago. Note its Language Arts: Imagine that Chicago Describe how the location of Chicago location on Lake Michigan. Then, write is located on the Mississippi River played a role in its becoming a major, a paragraph that describes how the rather than Lake Michigan. Write a national transportation center. (US) use of the Great Lakes for paragraph about how this would affect (16E) transportation led to Chicago Chicago becoming a center for becoming a center for nationwide nationwide transportation. transportation.

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4.16.48 Write a paragraph that explains how Language Arts: Use the Internet or Understand the importance of port port cities are important to the library resources to research port cities cities to the economic growth of the economic growth of the nation. in the United States. Make a list of nation. (US) (16E) important imports and exports for each city. Then, write a short paragraph about how these port cities affect the economic growth of the nation.

Significant to Develop at Grade 4: Create a Venn diagram that shows Language Arts: Identify two causes 4.16.49 how the early peoples of the and two effects for each of the Analyze the historical basis of the Southwest and Spanish settlers of the following events in the Southwest: the culture of the Southwest. (16A) Southwest have influenced the culture arrival of Spanish settlers, the Texas of the Southwest today. War for Independence, the Trail of Tears, and the Oklahoma land rush. Then, write a paragraph about how these events affect the culture of he Southwest today.

4.16.50 Use the Internet or library resources to Language Arts: Read Sequoyah: The Understand Sequoyah’s contributions find Sequoyah’s syllabary. Then, write Cherokee Man Who Gave His People to Cherokee history and culture. (16A) a report showing how this contributed Writing by James Rumford, Houghton to Cherokee history and culture. Mifflin, 2004. After reading, discuss some of Sequoyah’s contributions to his culture. Take turns telling the class how you contribute to your own culture.

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4.16.51 Complete the following sentences: A Technology: Use the Internet or library Analyze the difference between (primary) source is a record made by resources to find primary and primary sources and secondary people who took part in or saw an secondary sources. Tell why each is a sources. (16A) event. A (secondary) source is a primary or secondary source. record of an event that was made by people who were not there. Then, make a list of items that can be primary and secondary sources.

4.16.52 Make a chart that shows the causes Art: Working in small groups, make a Analyze the causes and effects of the and effects of the Civil War. bulletin board about the Civil War. Civil War. (US) (16B) Share the bulletin board with your class and analyze why the outcome of the Civil War is still important today.

4.16.53 Use the Internet or library resources to Language Arts: Write a journal entry Identify Illinois’ role in the events research the role of Illinois in the that describes how the debate about leading up to and during the Civil War. events leading up to the Civil War and slavery in southern Illinois was different (US) (16B) during the Civil War, including slavery from the debate about slavery in in Illinois, the Underground Railroad, northern Illinois. and the amount of soldiers from Illinois that joined the Union army. Write a report to summarize your findings.

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4.16.54 Use the Internet or library resources to Technology: Use the Internet or library Describe the history of the early research the lives of early European resources to research the types of European settlers and colonists in settlers and colonists in North technology that early European settlers North America. (US) (16B) America. Write a report about your and colonists had to use in order to live findings. in North America. Make a list that summarizes your findings.

4.16.55 Write a paragraph that describes the Language Arts: Read the Mayflower Describe the political development of political development of the European Compact. Then, write a paragraph the European colonies in North colonies in North America. Include about how it was used to govern America. (US) (16B) descriptions of the House of colonies. Burgesses, the Mayflower Compact, and proprietary colony.

4.16.56 Make a time line about important Art: Pick a time in the history of the Identify the sequence of important events in the early history of the Northeast. Make a bulletin board events in the early history of the Northeast. Include the following dates showing important events, people, and Northeast. (US) (16B) on your time line: Native Americans places during that time. are the only people living in the Northeast (1500); Henry Hudson travels along much of the Northeast coast (1610); Britain has 13 colonies along the Atlantic coast (1733); the United States officially becomes a new nation (1783).

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4.16.57 Use the Internet or library resources to Technology: Choose a form of new Analyze the role of Illinois in the research one technology market in technology that has made your life technology market, including the Illinois. Then, write a paragraph that easier or better. Use the Internet or production of fiber optics, microchip analyzes how this market affects library resources to research the technology, and electronic Illinois, the United States, and the technology. Summarize your findings in telecommunications. (W) (16C) world. a report and present it to the class.

4.16.58 Make a two-column chart. Label the Art: Make a collage about economic Explain how the economy of the United columns United States Economy Long activities in Illinois in the past and States has changed over time. (US) Ago and United States Economy today. Use two colors of paper to (16C) Today. Fill in the columns with represent activities from the past that information about how the economy are different from activities today. Use has changed. Present your findings to a third color of paper to represent the class. economic activities that are the same in the past and today.

4.16.59 Make a two-column chart. Label the Art: Draw a picture of a city, such as Describe the Industrial Revolution. columns Before the Industrial Chicago, Philadelphia, or New York (US) (16C) Revolution and After the Industrial City, during the Industrial Revolution. Revolution. Then, fill in the columns to compare and contrast how things changed during the Industrial Revolution.

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4.16.60 Choose a type of manufacturing that Art: Design an advertisement for a Discuss the manufacturing that takes takes place in Illinois such as manufactured good made in Illinois. In place in Illinois. (W) (16C) appliances, railroad equipment, your advertisement, name the automobiles and automobile parts, manufactured good, identify where in aircraft instruments, and farm Illinois the manufactured good is made, equipment. Then, write an essay that identify where the manufactured good discusses how this type of is exported, and tell why people should manufacturing affects the state. use the product. Share your advertisement with the class.

4.16.61 On a present-day map of the United Language Arts: Name several types of Discuss how the possibility of gold and States and Mexico, trace the route that harsh environments that are found in claiming new land drew Spanish Coronado’s group followed. Then, the United States and throughout the explorers into the harsh environment of write a paragraph that describes the world. Then write a paragraph about the Southwest. (US) (16E) land through which they traveled. how far you would go into these Include examples of obstacles they environments to get what you would may have faced. want and why.

4.16.62 Make a four-column chart. Label the Home Economics: Make a list of plants Discuss the ways that early peoples columns Food, Shelter, Clothing, and and animals that hunter-gatherers used used natural resources to make items Tools. Fill in the chart with details for food. Use the Internet and library for trade. (W) (16E) about how hunter-gatherer cultures resources to find recipes using those used the environment to meet their ingredients. Use the recipes to plan a needs. Then, write a summary of how meal that you might serve to your they used some of these items for class. trade.

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4.16.63 Make a time line of environmental Language Arts: Use the Internet or Place a series of environmental events events that have happened throughout library resources to research current in order on a time line of World History. the history of the world. newspaper articles about the (W) (16E) environment. Then, write a summary about the article.

Useful to Work on at Grade 4: As a class, read aloud a short story Science: Study a physical map of the 4.16.64 about early life in Illinois. Pause at United States that shows where the Use logic to draw conclusions about different points of the story and draw Transcontinental Railroad was built. facts given in expository texts. (16A) conclusions about what might happen Draw conclusions about what kind of next. Then, list the facts you used to hardships workers had to overcome draw each conclusion. due to the geography of the land in order to build the railroad.

4.16.65 Draw a map of the United States, Language Arts: Imagine that you are Explain that parts of the Great Plains highlighting the Great Plains region. an explorer traveling through the Great were completely unexplored by Then, write a paragraph that explains Plains in the early 1800s. Write a Europeans and Americans in 1803. how parts of the Great Plains were journal entry that describes details of (US) (16B) completely unexplored by Europeans your trip, including your hopes and and Americans in 1803. fears.

4.16.66 Choose a person who has made a Art: Make an award or medal for a Understand the contributions of contribution that is important to the person who’s contributions were individuals to the history of the United history of the United States. Then, important to the history of the United States. (US) (16D) write a letter to this person, honoring States. his or her contribution.

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Grade 4 State Goal 17

State Goal 17: Understand world geography and the effects of geography on society, with an emphasis on the United States.

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Critical to Understand and Master at Look at a map of the United States. Art: Draw a map of your community. Grade 4: Read the map key, the compass rose, Include a map key, compass rose, and 4.17.01 and the title. Then, make a list of a title. Read and interpret geographic questions that can be answered by information given on maps. (17A) looking at the map, such as Is Springfield, Illinois, east or west of Sacramento, California?

4.17.02 Write a report that describes the Language Arts: Working in small Describe physical regions of the United regions of the United States. Compare groups, use the Internet or library States. (17A) and contrast the types of physical resources to research a region of the features in each region. Then, make a United States. Then, summarize your list of the features that two or more findings for the rest of the class. At the regions have in common. end of the day, play a quiz game using facts about the regions.

4.17.03 Look at a map of the United States. Math: Use a map of the United States Use a map scale to find actual Use the map scale to answer to figure out how far your community is distances between places on a map. questions about the distances between from Washington, D.C., (17A) cities. For example, how many miles away is Tallahassee, Florida, from Mobile, Alabama?

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4.17.04 Make a list of the bodies of water that Science: Use a map to identify major Identify the bodies of water that make make up the natural boundaries bodies of water that make up natural up the natural boundaries between between Illinois and its border states. boundaries between states. Make a list Illinois and its border states. (17A) of these bodies of water, telling where they are located and which states they separate.

4.17.05 Using a map, make a list of the major Math: About three-fourths of Earth is Identify and describe major rivers and rivers and lakes in the United States. covered by water. Almost all of that lakes of the United States. (17A) Then, write a brief description of each water is in the oceans, leaving very one. little freshwater, and only a small fraction of that is in lakes, rivers, and wetlands. Make a pie chart to show how water is distributed around the world.

4.17.06 Write a paragraph that compares and Language Arts: Use the Internet or Understand the factors that influence, contrasts weather and climate, library resources to research the define, and distinguish weather and including what influences, defines, and weather and climate of your climate. (17A) distinguishes them. community. Then, write a weather report about the weather and climate in your community.

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4.17.07 Use a map to locate the hemispheres, Science: Use the Internet or library Locate and describe hemispheres, continents, countries, and oceans. resources to research the ways of life continents, countries, and oceans. Then, write a report that describes that people have in a different (17A) where the hemispheres, continents, hemisphere, continent, or country from countries and oceans are in relation to you. Then, write a paragraph Illinois. describing their ways of life and how they are different from yours. Use the Internet or library resources to Math: Use the Internet or library 4.17.08 research oceans, how they warm the resources to research the average Discuss why coastal areas have milder air around them, and how they provide monthly temperatures of a coastal climates than inland areas. (17A) humidity. Then, write a paragraph that town. Then, create a climograph to draws a conclusion about why coastal show the information. areas have milder climates than inland areas.

4.17.09 Write a report that describes the Science: Take a walk around your Describe the vegetation of the United vegetation of the United States. school or community. Make a list of the States. (17A) vegetation that you see on your walk.

4.17.10 Look at a map of the Western Science: Make a list of the states that Discuss why southern regions of the Hemisphere. Then, complete the make up the southern part of the United States are warmer its northern following sentence: Southern regions United States. Then, use the Internet regions. (17A) are usually warmer than northern or library resources to research their regions because they are closer to the average annual temperatures. (equator). Compare their temperatures with the average annual temperatures of Illinois.

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4.17.11 Write a paragraph that describes the Language Arts: Make a list of the Describe the geography and climate of geography of the Northwest. Then, different physical features of the the Northeast. (17A) make a four-column chart. Label the Northeast, such as the Appalachian columns Winter, Spring, Summer, and Mountains. Then, write a paragraph Autumn. Fill in the chart with the about how the geography of the climate of the Northeast region for Northeast affects life there. each season.

4.17.12 Make a cause and effect chart that Science: Use the Internet or library Describe the geography and climate of shows how the geography of the West resources to research the history of the West. (17A) can affect the climate there. Mount St. Helens. For example, you may be interested in learning about how the eruption in 1980 changed the mountain’s shape. Then, write a report to summarize your findings.

4.17.13 Make a list of the geographical Language Arts: Places in the Describe the geography and climate of features of the Southeast. Then, write Southeast see the most hurricane the Southeast. (17A) a paragraph describing its climate. activity in the United States. Use the Draw a conclusion about how the Internet or library resources to geography of the Southeast may affect research recent hurricanes in the its climate or how the climate may Southeast. Then, write a short story affect its geography. describing one person’s or one family’s experience during the storm. Give a clear description of the setting in your story.

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4.17.14 Write an article to try to persuade Science: Use the Internet or library Describe the geography and climate of people to buy land in the Midwest. resources to research why winds in the the Midwest. (17A) Include descriptions of the geography Midwest change direction from season and climate of the Midwest. to season. Summarize your findings in a written report.

4.17.15 Use the Internet or library resources to Art/Science: Make a labeled illustration Describe the geography and climate of research the geography and climate of showing these steps of the rain the Southwest. (17A) the Southwest. Then, make a collage shadow process in the Southwest: of pictures showing the geography and 1. Air picks up moisture from the climate of the Southwest. Pacific Ocean. 2. The moist air forms clouds that blow inland from the coast. 3. Wind pushes the clouds up the western side of the Coast Ranges and the Sierra Nevada. 4. As the clouds rise up the side of the mountains, air gets cooler. (Cooler air cannot hold as much moisture as warm air.) 5. The cooler temperatures cause rain or snow to fall on the western side of the mountains. 6. The remaining clouds have little moisture left as they blow to the other side of the mountains (the Southwest).

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4.17.16 Make a flowchart that shows the Language Arts: Write an editorial telling Explain the process of erosion and the process of erosion. Then, write a people about the effects of rainfall on effects of rainfall on unprotected soil paragraph that explains how rainfall unprotected soil surfaces. Speculate as surfaces. (17B) can affect unprotected soil surfaces, to what they can do to avoid the such as newly tilled farm fields. problem.

4.17.17 Write a paragraph about the various Math: On average, a 10-minute shower Understand how and why people techniques, such as aquifers, uses about 20 gallons of water while a conserve water in desert regions. xeriscape, and conservation, used to bath uses about 50 gallons of water. (17B) preserve water in desert regions. Using this data, estimate how much Include an explanation of why it is water you use taking showers or baths important to conserve water. each week.

4.17.18 Write a story about desert friends Language Arts: Read the story Cactus Understand interdependence among using an animal and a plant as the Hotel by Brenda Z. Guiberson, Henry plants and animals within a desert main characters. Include how they Holt & Co., 1993. Then answer the ecosystem. (17B) protect each other and provide food for following question: How is the story’s each other. cactus like a hotel? Explain how this shows interdependence in the desert. Identify the major mountain ranges on Language Arts: Read Mountain Town 4.17.19 a map of North America. Then, write a by Bonnie Geisert, Houghton Mifflin, Describe how mountains affect the paragraph that explains how you think 2000. As a class, discuss how the book culture and economy of a place. (17B) that the mountains affect the culture shows that mountains can shape lives and economy of a place. in every part of the world.

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4.17.20 Make a list of problems that may Language Arts: Imagine you have Discuss the effects of blizzards on happen as result of a blizzard. Then, been trapped in your house as a result communities in the northern regions of write a paragraph about a community of a blizzard. The power is out and the the United States. (17C) after a blizzard. Include information roads are blocked. Write a short story about physical damage, blocked that describes what you would do at transportation routes, and power home if you were snowed-in by a outages that might occur as a result of blizzard. a blizzard.

4.17.21 Write a report that describes the Language Arts: Imagine that a natural Describe the impact of natural impact of natural disasters, such as disaster has struck a community in disasters, such as flooding, flooding, earthquakes, tornados, Illinois. As a class, make a list of ways earthquakes, tornados, hurricanes, hurricanes, droughts, forest fires, and that you could help people who were droughts, forest fires, and blizzards, on blizzards, on the United States and affected by the natural disaster. the United States and neighboring neighboring countries. Include what countries. (17C) would happen as a result of a town losing power, having homes destroyed by debris, and having no electricity or running water.

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4.17.22 Using a population map of the United Math: Use the Internet or library Analyze population distribution States, trace the regions of the United resources to research the five largest patterns throughout the regions of the States. Then, write a paragraph cities in Illinois. Display your findings in United States. (17C) describing why you think more people a graph. Then, write a report about one live in some regions of the United of the cities. Research and answer this States than others. question, Which factors influence the location of this city?

4.17.23 Write a paragraph that explains why Science: Make a list of ways in which Explain how the use of natural people need natural resources. Then, you can reduce your effect on the resources affects the environment. list how our use of natural resources environment. Share your list with the (17C) affects the environment. class.

4.17.24 Make a map of the natural resources in Math: Make a bar graph that shows the Analyze a map showing the locations Illinois. Then, make another map that seven top oil-producing states in the of natural resources in Illinois and in shows the locations of natural United States. the United States. (17C) resources in the United States. Compare and contrast the locations of resources on the two maps.

4.17.25 Use the Internet or library resources to Business: Describe how railroads and Explain how transportation affects the research transportation over time. waterways are important to producers quality and quantity of the movement Write an essay that explains how and distributors in Illinois, the United of people, goods, and ideas from transportation affects the quality and States, and around the world. region to region. (17C) quantity of the movement of people, goods, and ideas from region to region.

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4.17.26 Write a paragraph that summarizes the Math: Townships in the Northwest Describe the significance of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. Then, Territory were set in 6-mile by 6-mile Northwest Ordinance of 1787 as it write a paragraph that describes how blocks. Draw and label a 6 x 6 grid. pertains to population growth in the the Northwest Ordinance caused How many square miles were in a region. (17C) population growth in the region. township? (36 square miles) There are 640 acres in 1 square mile. Calculate the number of acres in one 36-square- mile township. (23,040 acres)

4.17.27 Use the Internet or library resources to Language Arts: Imagine that you are Analyze how the physical features of find a map that shows the route that traveling from the colonies to settle in Illinois affected early settlement settlers from the colonies took to get to what is now Illinois. Write a journal patterns within the state. (17C) Illinois. Make a list of physical features entry describing what you see and the that would present challenges to the people you meet during your travels. settlers traveling to what is now Illinois.

4.17.28 Create a word web that shows how Science: Use the Internet or library Explain how human activity in the human activity in the Northwest resources to find historical maps Northwest Territory and in Illinois Territory and in Illinois affected the showing Illinois as part of the affected the environment. (17C) environment. Northwest Territory. Compare the historical maps with a present-day physical map of the United States. Analyze how the environment has changed.

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4.17.29 Make a three-column chart. Label the Language Arts: Write a short Describe how ranching, farming, and columns Ranching, Farming, and Oil. paragraph describing how the railroads oil industries grew in the Southwest. Fill in the chart with descriptions of helped ranching grow. (17D) how these industries grew in the Southwest.

4.17.30 Use the Internet or library resources to Art: Draw three pictures that show life Analyze settlement patterns and find historical population maps of the in a rural, an urban, and a suburban regions in which Americans live. (17D) United States. Compare the historical area. Give each picture a title and a maps to a present-day population map caption. Then write a short essay in of the United States. Write a which you compare and contrast life in paragraph that draws conclusions each area. about settlement patterns in the United States over time.

4.17.31 Make a word web with the phrase Theater: As a class, act out the lives of Understand the lives of miners during California Gold Rush Miners in the miners during the California gold rush the California gold rush of the 1800s. middle. Fill in the surrounding bubbles of the 1800s. Prepare props that (17D) with details of their lives during the miners would have used while gold rush of the 1800s. searching for gold, such as a pan, a pick, or a cradle.

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4.17.32 Make a list of ways that settlers used Science: Use the Internet or library Explain how settlers used and changed and changed the land. Then, write a resources to research how people the land. (17D) paragraph that describes how the change the land. For example, some settlers used and changed the land to people build hydroelectric dams to make better use of the land and its generate electricity. Summarize your resources. findings in a speech and present it to the class.

Significant to Develop at Grade 4: Write a paragraph about how Health: Use the Internet or library 4.17.33 dangerous conditions, such as resources to research what you should Explain how mountains may become mudslides and avalanches, can take do in case there is an avalanche, dangerous in different conditions. place in the mountains. mudslide, or another dangerous (17A) situation in the mountains. As a class, combine your answers to make a class safety list.

4.17.34 Use the Internet or library resources to Science: Use the Internet or library Understand that a natural disaster, research Hurricane Katrina. Then, resources to research natural disasters such as a hurricane, a tornado, an write a report that describes the path in your county in the past five years. earthquake, a volcanic eruption, or a and the size of Hurricane Katrina. Summarize your findings in a report. drought, is a destructive event that Include a description of how much occurs naturally. (17A) damage hurricanes can do.

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4.17.35 Make a list that identifies the Science: As a class, fill a rectangular Identify the geographic regions, geographic regions, geographic box top labeled Illinois with sand or geographic features, and climate of features, and climate of Illinois. loose soil, and mark the edges north, Illinois. (17A) south, east, and west. Mold hills and valleys. Show the Driftless Area in the northwest with hills.

4.17.36 Make a list of reasons, including Science: Use the Internet or library Understand that there is a period of weather conditions, which show how resources to research the harvest time in which corn and wheat in the time affects the harvest of corn and times of your favorite fruits and Midwest can be harvested due to wheat in the Midwest. vegetables. Then, make a list of the weather conditions. (17B) best times of year to eat your favorite fruits and vegetables.

4.17.37 Working with a partner, use the Language Arts: Write a journal entry Explain how the length of day can Internet or library resources to about living in the Arctic Circle. influence human activities in different research ways of life in the Arctic Describe what you see there and what regions of the world. (17B) Circle. Make a two-column chart. you would do to survive. Label the columns Summer and Winter. Fill in the chart with ways of life in the Arctic Circle that change based on length of day during each season.

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4.17.38 Write a report that explains what Art/Science: Make a diagram of the Use a diagram or a globe to show causes day and night? Include a rotation of the Earth and the Sun. Earth's rotation on its axis and explain diagram or globe that shows Earth’s Choose colors that show lightness and the causes of day and night. (17B) rotation on its axis. darkness, according to the position of the planet and the star. On a separate sheet of paper, write a paragraph to explain how the rotation of Earth causes day and night.

4.17.39 As a class, discuss the importance of Science: Use the Internet or library Explain how interdependence on the tourism to the economy of Florida. resources to research how a region weather and climate has developed in Then, write a paragraph explaining that relies on tourism can be affected if regions where tourism is important to how weather can affect tourism in weather conditions are not safe and at the economy. (17C) Florida. For example, summer is a a normal level. Write a paragraph that popular tourism season; however, it is summarizes your findings. also hurricane season.

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4.17.40 Use the Internet or library resources to Science: Use the Internet or library Describe the different types of land research land use in cities in Illinois resources to research a planned use, such as residential, commercial, and in the United States. Make a list of community in the United States such recreational, in cities in Illinois and the land use categories such as as Park Forest, Illinois; Radburn, New United States. (17C) residential, commercial, and Jersey; Miami Lakes or Seaside, recreational. Then, write a description Florida. Write a report explaining how of each type of land use. Include the planned community differs from examples in your descriptions. traditional, unplanned cities and suburban areas. Describe how the planned community might affect family and community life, racial and cultural diversity, and the environment.

4.17.41 Make a Venn diagram to compare the Language Arts: Do our attempts to Compare natural disasters in Illinois similarities and differences of two types “control Mother Nature” often backfire with natural disasters in other states to of natural disasters. Include the impact on us? Research and write two determine their intensity and impact on of the natural disasters on people, paragraphs about how we use people. (17C) including how they affect the safety, dredging and levees to control the health, and property of the state’s Mississippi River. How did these citizens. practices affect the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina?

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Grade 4 State Goal 18

State Goal 18: Understand social systems, with an emphasis on the United States.

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Critical to Understand and Master at Read America Is… by Louise Borden, Language Arts: Write a poem that Grade 4: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2001. expresses your ideas about American 4.18.01 Then, write a short summary of the culture. Understand American ideals poem and how it describes American expressed in poetry. (18A) ideals.

4.18.02 Read “America the Beautiful” by Music: Write an inspiring song about Understand the origin and meaning of Katharine Lee Bates. Bates wrote this your community. Share your song with songs that express American ideals. song after looking out at the United the class. (18A) States from the top of a mountain in Colorado. Write a paragraph about Music: Listen to and sing along with a how the origin of this song and its recording of “America the Beautiful.” meaning express American ideals. Then, working in small groups, improvise and perform your own arrangement of the song using both voice and instruments for the class.

4.18.03 Write a paragraph that describes how Language Arts: Choose an American Understand the development of the cultural traditions of the United cultural tradition. Bring in food, cultural traditions in the United States. States developed. clothing, and other items that portray (18A) that cultural tradition to show to the class. Then, as a class, compile a list of the different cultures represented in your class.

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4.18.04 Use the Internet or library resources to Art: Draw a picture of some of the Explore the cultures and research the accomplishments and accomplishments that Native accomplishments of Native Americans cultures of Native Americans before Americans had, such as building and their interactions with European European settlement. Write a mounds, making clothing, or building settlers. (18B) paragraph describing their structures. accomplishments and cultures. Then, describe Native Americans and their interactions with European settlers.

4.18.05 Use the Internet or library resources to Theater: As a class, pretend that some Analyze how people and governments research ways that people and resources, such as crayons, pencils, or resolve conflicts over scarce governments have resolved conflicts paper, are scarce. Discuss how to resources. (18B) over scarce resources. For example, resolve the problem of scarcity in a civil the Rio Grande supplies water for way. more than half of all irrigated land in Mexico. To protect Mexico’s use of the river, the United States has agreed that a certain amount of water must reach Mexico. Make a table summarizing your findings.

4.18.06 Make a list of three ways that the Art: Identify a volunteer project that you Understand how the citizens and the citizens and the government of the think is important. Make a poster government of the United States work United States work to serve the designed to persuade people to for the common good in times of need. common good in times of need. volunteer for the project. (18B)

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4.18.07 Make a list of the goods and services Language Arts: Use the Internet or Explain how state governments provided by the state government. library resources to research different operate and how taxes pay for public Then, write a paragraph that explains types of taxes that the government goods and services. (18B) how taxes help pay for the goods and collects and how that tax money is services that the government provides. used. Write a report that summarizes Explain what you think would happen your findings. to these goods and services if taxes did not pay for them.

4.18.08 Use the Internet or library resources to Math: Make a population density map Identify how population density varies find a population density map of the of your community. in different parts of the United States. United States. Using the map, make a (18C) list of the population density of two large cities, two medium-sized cities, and two rural towns.

4.18.09 Make a two-column chart. Label the Science: Choose an agricultural or Describe how changes in agriculture columns Agricultural Changes and industrial invention that you believe has and industries impacted the United Industrial Changes. Fill in the chart made a difference in your life. Write a States. (18C) describing the changes that happened short paragraph about how this in these areas from the 1850s to the invention works and what it does for present. Then, write a summary of you. how these changes impacted the United States.

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Significant to Develop at Grade 4: Read the legend Two Bear Cubs: A Language Arts: Think of an American 4.18.10 Miwok Legend from California’s legend, such as Paul Bunyan. Write a Analyze a Native American legend. Yosemite Valley retold by Robert D. paragraph that describes what the (18A) San Souci, Yosemite Association, legend says about the culture of 1997. Then, write a paragraph that Americans. Then, use your own words summarizes the legend. Include what to retell the legend. it taught you about Native American culture.

4.18.11 Read Buford the Little Bighorn by Bill Language Arts: Write a short story in Analyze the use of non-human Peet, Houghton Mifflin, 1983, or other which the subject is something non- subjects as characters in fictional texts. books that use non-human subjects as human such as a dog, a tree, or even a (18A) main characters. Then, write a building. These objects can talk or just paragraph analyzing why you think the be the focus of your story. author used non-humans as the subjects of their books.

4.18.12 Read Circle Unbroken by Margot Language Arts: Write a short story that Understand the rural history of the Theis Raven, Farrar, Straus and tells about your family’s history and Southeast as portrayed in fiction. (18A) Giroux, 2004. Write a brief summary of culture. the story and how it portrays the rural history of the Southeast.

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4.18.13 Draw a large city. Label buildings, Language Arts: Write an essay Describe benefits and challenges of cars, parks, and other aspects of city describing whether you would want to city life. (18C) life. Then, make a list of the benefits live in a city or in a rural area. Support and challenges associated with living your essay with reasons and in a city. examples.

4.18.14 Make a flowchart showing how the Language Arts: Write a paragraph Explain how the economy of the United United States economy has changed about a business you would like to States has changed over time. (18C) over time. start. Tell what you will sell and why people will want it.

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