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Octorara Elementary School
Grade 4 Social Studies
Teacher: Diane Rieker
Month
August
2011
Content
A. CIVICS AND GOVERNMENT
Liberty/freedom
Democracy
Justice
Equality
Legislative
Executive
Judicial
B. Citzenship
Vocabulary:
Leadership
Public Service
Citizen
Skills
Assessment
Modifications/Accomodations
A. Examine school rules and
consequences.
A. Explain orally or in writing rules and
laws for the state.
A. Explain orally or in writing the
princples and ideals that shape state
government.
• Liberty/Freedom
• Democracy
• Justice
• Equality
A. Identify orally or in writing the key
ideas about government found in
significant documents: Declaration of
Independence, and Pennsylvania
Constitution.
A. Identify orally or in writing state
symbols.
A. Identify orally and in writing the roles
of the three branches of government.
A. Describe orally or in writing how the
elected representative bodies function in
making local and state laws.
A. Identify orally or in writing the services
performed by state government.
A. Identify orally or in writing positions of
authority at the state level.
A. Explain orally or in writing the voting
process.
B. Identify orally or in writing individual
rights and needs and the rights and needs of
others in the classroom, school, and
community.
B. Describe orally or in writing the
sources of conflict and disagreement and
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different ways conflict can be resolved.
B. Describe orally or in writing the roles
of leadership and public service in school,
community, and state.
C. ECONOMICS
Vocabulary:
Scarcity
Resources
Choice
Specialization
Division of Labor
Trade
Economic
Public Goods
Services
Private Economic Institution
Prices
Products
C. Identify orally or in writing scarcity of
resouces in a state.
C. Identify orally or in writing the contrast
between needs and wants.
C. Explain orally or in writing the role of
producers in making goods and providing
services.
C. Explain orally or in writing what
influences the choices people make.
C. Explain orally or in writing how a
product moves from production to
consumption.
C. Determine orally or in writing how
sellers compete with one another.
C. Differentiate orally or in writing
between monetary and non-monetary
incentives in advertising.
C. Explain orally or in writing the role of
buyers and sellers in determining the prices
of products.
C. Explain orally or in writing why
businesses open and close.
C. Explain orally or in writing the three
basic questions all economic systems must
answer.
• What to produce?
• How?
• For whom?
C. Explain orally or in writing how
government responds to social needs by
providing public goods and services.
C. Describe the impact of government
involvement in state economic activities.
C. Compare different ways people save.
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C. Examine the basic operation of hte
banking system.
D. Geography
Vocabulary:
environment
regions
human features
E. History:
Vocabulary:
Opinion
Primary Sources
Documents
Artifacts
D. Describe and locate places and regions
as defined by human and physical features
in PA.
D. Identify the basic physical processes
that affect the physical characteristics of
places and regions in PA.
D. Identify the human characteristics of
places and regions in PA using the
following criteria
•Population
•Culture
•Settlement
•Economic Activities
•Political Activities
D. Identify the effect of physical systems
on people in a community.
D. Identify the effect of people on the
physical systems within a community.
E. Distinguish between fact and opinion
from multiple points of view and primary
sources related to historical events.
E. Identify a specific research topic and
develop questions relating to the research
topic. (Reference: RWSL standard 1.8.3
research)
E. Differentiate the common
characteristics of the social, political,
cultural and economic groups from PA.
E. Locate historical documents, artifacts,
and places critical to PA history.
E. Explain how continuity and change in
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PA history have influenced personal
development and identity.
•Belief Systems and religions
•Commerce and industry
•Politics and Government
•Physical and Human geography
E. Distinguish between conflict and
cooperation among groups and
organizations that impacted the history and
development of PA.
•Ethnicity and race
•Working conditions
•Economic stability
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