Download Social Studies – 4th Grade Title: Civics and Government Objectives

Social Studies – 4th Grade
Title: Civics and Government
Objectives:
Essential Questions:
Standards
Content (What the Student Will Know)
Performance (What the Student will Do)
5.1.4 A,B
Rules, Laws, and Consequences
5.1.4. C
Principles and Ideals
Compare and explain:
 Rules
 Laws
 consequences
for the classroom, school, community, and
state
Identify and explain principles and ideals
shaping local and state government
5.1.4.D
Key Concepts of Government Documents
5.1.4.F
State Symbols & Holidays
Activities/Assessments
Vocabulary:
 Liberty/Freedom
 Democracy
 Justice
 Equality
Identify key ideas about government found in
significant documents:
 Declaration of Independence
 U.S. Constitution
 Bill of Rights, PA Constitution
Recognize and explain state and national
symbols and describe national holidays:
 State and US Flag
 State Symbols
 National Holidays
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5.2.4.A
Individual Rights
5.2.4.B
Conflict and Resolution
5.2.4.C
Roles of Leadership
5.2.4.D
School Community
5.3.4.A
Branches of Government
5.3.4.B
Passage of Laws
5.3.4.C
Governmental Services
5.3.4.D
Governmental Positions
5.3.4.E
Voting Process.
5.3.4.F
Perspectives vs. Conflict.
5.3.4.G
Influencing Others
Define individual rights and explain how it
relates to rights and needs of others.
Identify and describe the sources of conflict
and disagreement and different ways conflict
can be resolved.
Students will identify roles of leadership and
explain responsibilities related to those roles
in school, community, state, and nation.
Students will explain their role as a citizen and
how they can participate in school and
community activities.
Compare and contrast the three branches of
government.
Explain how laws are created and passed at
local and state level.
Identify and explain the services provided by
local and state governments.
Explain local, state, and national level
positions of authority.
Students will demonstrate and explain the
process of voting.
Students will demonstrate through role play
how different ideas can result in conflicts.
Students will explore and explain individual
interests and explain how that can influence
others.
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Social Studies – 4th Grade
Title: Economics
Objectives:
Essential Questions:
Standards
Content (What the Student Will Know)
Performance (What the Student will Do)
6.1.4.A
Local Resources
6.1.4. B
Wants and Needs
Identify and explain scarcity of resources in
the local community.
Explain the difference between basic needs
and wants.
Activities/Assessments
Contrast basic needs and wants.
6.1.4.C
Goods and services.
Identify and explain role of producers in
making goods and providing services.
Choices
Illustrate what individuals or organizations give up
when making a choice.
Explain consequences to decisions
6.1.4.D
6.2.4.A
Production to consumption.
6.2.4.B
Competition
6.2.4.C
Monetary vs Non-monetary Incentives
Categorize what influences decisions:
 Family
 Friends
 Beliefs
State steps for a product from production to
consumption
Demonstrate how competition is to selling
products.
Differentiate between monetary and nonmonetary incentives in advertising.
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Explore advertising with monetary and nonmonetary incentives
Explain the role of buyers and sellers in
determining prices of products.
Investigate why local businesses open and
close
Describe the role of a private economic
institution in the local community.
Explain the three basic questions all economic
systems must answer and what they use to
answer them:
 What to produce?
 How?
 For Whom?
 How Much?
 What Price?
Explain how government responds to social
needs by providing public goods and services.
Describe the impact of government
involvement in state and national economic
activities.
6.2.4.D
Pricing of products
6.2.4.E
Explain why local businesses open and close.
6.2.4.F
6.2.4.G
Private economic institution in the local
community.
Economic Systems
6.3.4.A
Government responds to social needs
6.3.4.B
Government Involvement
6.3.4.C
Local Taxation
Explore ways in which tax revenues are used in
local community.
6.4.4.A
Labor Division
6.4.4.B
6.5.4.B
National trade
Career Requirements
6.5.4.G
6.5.4.H
Saving Methods
Banking System
List and explain factors that promote
specialization and division of labor.
Explain why nations trade.
Identify the requirements for different careers
and occupations.
Compare different ways people save.
Examine the basic operation of the banking
system.
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Social Studies – 4th Grade
Title: Geography
Objectives:
Essential Questions:
Standards
Content (What the Student Will Know)
Performance (What the Student will Do)
7.1.4.A
Geographic tools for information about people,
places, and environment.
7.1.4.B
Location physical and human features.
7.2.4.A
Physical characteristics of places and regions.
7.2.4.B
Physical characteristics and their affect on places
and regions.
7.3.4.A
Human characteristics based on:
 Population
 Culture, Settlement
 Economic activities
 Political activities
Physical systems effects on people within a
community.
The effect of people on the physical systems within
a community.
Describe how common geographic tools are
used to organize and interpret information
about people, places, and environment.
Describe and locate places and regions as
defined by physical and human features.
Identify the physical characteristics of places
and regions.
Identify the basic physical processes that
affect the physical characteristics of places
and regions.
Identify the human characteristics of places
and regions using the following criteria:
Population, Culture, Settlement, Economic
activities, Political activities
7.4.4.A
7.4.4.B
Activities/Assessments
Identify the effect of the physical systems on
people within a community.
Identify the effect of people on the physical
systems within a community.
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Social Studies – 4th Grade
Title: History
Objectives:
Essential Questions:
Standards
Content (What the Student Will Know)
Performance (What the Student will Do)
8.1.4.A
Geography and climate vs. Continuity and change
over time.
8.1.4.B
Historical events’ fact and opinion
8.1.4.C
Research
8.2.4.A
Common characteristics of the social, political,
cultural, and economic groups from Pennsylvania.
Identify and describe how geography and
climate have influenced continuity and change
over time.
Distinguish between fact and opinion from
multiple points of view, and primary sources as
related to historical events.
Identify a specific research topic and develop
questions relating to the research topic.
Differentiate common characteristics of the
social, political, cultural, and economic groups
from Pennsylvania.
8.2.4.B
Historical documents, artifacts, and places critical
to Pennsylvania history.
8.2.4.C
Continuity and change in Pennsylvania history
Activities/Assessments
Identify and explain historical significance of
historical documents, artifacts, and places
critical to Pennsylvania history.
Explain how continuity and change in
Pennsylvania history have influenced personal
development and identity, including:
 Belief systems and religions
 Commerce and Industry
 Technology
 Politics and Government
 Physical and Human Geography
 Social organizations
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8.2.4.D
Groups and organization that impacted the
history and development of Pennsylvania.
8.3.4.A
Common characteristics of the social, political,
cultural and economic groups in United States
8.3.4.B
United States documents and artifacts
8.3.4.C
Continuity and change in U.S. history
Identify and explain between conflict and
cooperation among groups and organization
that impacted the history and development of
Pennsylvania:
 Ethnicity and Race
 Working Conditions
 Immigration
 Military Conflict
 Economic Stability
Differentiate common characteristics of the
social, political, cultural and economic groups
in United States history.
Identify and explain the historical significance
of:
 historical documents
 artifacts
 places
critical to United States history.
Explain how continuity and change in U.S.
history have influenced:
 personal development
 identity
 belief systems
 religions
 commerce
 industry
 technology
 politics
 government
 physical and human geography
 social organizations
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8.3.5.D
8.4.4.A
8.4.4.B
8.4.4.C
Conflict and cooperation among
Distinguish between conflict and cooperation
among groups and organization that impacted
the history and development of the United
States:
 Ethnicity and Race
 Working conditions
 Immigration
 Military Conflict
 Economic Stability
Common characteristics of groups in world history Differentiate common characteristics of the:
 Social
 Political
 Cultural
 economic groups in world history
Historical documents, artifacts, and sites, in world Locate and explain the historical significance
history.
of:
 historical documents
 artifacts
 sites
which are critical to world history.
Influences on personal development and identity.
Belief systems and religions
Explain how continuity and change in world
history have influenced:
 personal development
 identity
 belief systems
 religions
 commerce
 industry
 technology
 politics
 government
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8.4.4.D
Conflict and cooperation and its impact on the
history of the world.
 physical geography
 human geography
 social organizations
Distinguish between conflict and cooperation
among groups and organizations that impacted
development of the history of the world.
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