Download Let`s Unpack the Standard! SS4H3 The student will explain the

Let’s Unpack the Standard!
SS4H3 The student will explain the factors that shaped British colonial America.
a. Compare and contrast life in the New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern colonies.
b. Describe colonial life in America as experienced by various people, including large landowners, farmers, artisans,
women, indentured servants, slaves, and Native Americans.
SS4G1 The student will be able to locate important physical and man-made features in the United States.
a. Locate major physical features of the United States; include the Atlantic Coastal Plain, the Great Plains, the
Continental Divide, the Great Basin, Death Valley, the Gulf of Mexico, the St. Lawrence River, and the Great Lakes.
b. Locate major man-made features; include New York City, NY; Boston, MA; Philadelphia, PA; and the Erie Canal
SS4G2 The student will describe how physical systems affect human systems.
c. Explain how the physical geography of the New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern colonies helped determine
economic activities practiced therein.
SS4E1 The student will use the basic economic concepts of trade, opportunity cost, specialization, voluntary
exchange, productivity, and price incentives to illustrate historical events.
b. Explain how price incentives affect people’s behavior and choices (such as colonial decisions about what crops to
grow and products to produce).
c. Describe how specialization improves standards of living (such as the differences in the economies in the New
England, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern colonies).
d. Explain how voluntary exchange helps both buyers and sellers (such as prehistoric and colonial trade in North
America).
e. Describe how trade promotes economic activity (such as how trade between the colonies and England affected
their economies).
What should we KNOW?
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What should we be able to do?
physical geography of New England, Mid-Atlantic,
and Southern colonies
lifestyles of colonists living the New England, MidAtlantic, Southern colonies
major physical features of the United States
including the Atlantic Coastal Plain and the Gulf
of Mexico
major man-made features of the United States
including the development of major cities such as
New York City, Boston, and Philadelphia
Physical geography affected the economic
activity in the original thirteen colonies.
Price incentives impacted the particular crops
grown or industries established in each of the
colonial regions.
Different colonists specialized in various skills and
industries, which improved their standards of living.
Voluntary exchange benefited both buyers and
sellers in the colonial economy.
Each of the colonial regions established trade
based on their natural resources and geography.
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Describe physical geography of New England,
Mid-Atlantic, and Southern colonies.
Describe the lifestyles of colonists living the New
England, Mid-Atlantic, Southern colonies.
Locate major physical features of the United
States including the Atlantic Coastal Plain and the
Gulf of Mexico.
Locate major man-made features of the United
States including the development of major cities
such as New York City, Boston, and Philadelphia.
Describe how physical geography affected the
economic activity in the original thirteen colonies.
Explain how price incentives impacted the
particular crops grown or industries established in
each of the colonial regions.
Explain why different colonists specialized in
various skills and industries, and describe how that
specialization improved their standards of living.
Explain how voluntary exchange benefited both
buyers and sellers in the colonial economy.
Describe how each of the colonial regions
established trade based on their natural resources
and geography.
Vocabulary we need to know from the standard:
physical feature
New England colonies
Mid-Atlantic colonies
Southern colonies
coastal plain
gulf
geography
price incentive
specialization
voluntary exchange
productivity
indentured servant
large landowner
trade
promote
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