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Hist. Stnd 1.3=

Students use chronology to examine and explain historical relationships.

Essential Learning Target:

Interpreting historical data to determine cause-effect and time-order relationships.

Student Friendly:

S.W.B.A.T. look at historical information; find out the causes behind things that took place in the past, and what happened because of those events.

S.W.B.A.T. notice when events happened and in what order they happened.

Students can find the information, read and understand the information and use it to answer questions and/or present their ideas.

-Primary sources

-Secondary sources

-Worksheets

-Web sites

-Textbook

-Class projects

-Presentations

-Worksheet questions

-Observation by teacher

All four quarters

Content Standards:

Hist. Stnd.= 2.1

Students know how to formulate questions and hypotheses regarding what happened in the past and to obtain and analyze historical data to answer questions and test hypotheses.

Essential Learning Target:

S.W.B.A.T. formulate historical questions based on examination of primary and secondary sources.

Student Friendly:

S.W.B.A.T. come up with questions about history after looking at primary and secondary sources.

Success Criteria:

Students will read for comprehension and be able to come up with questions and find the answers to them based on looking at documents, maps, photographs, artwork and artifacts.

Suggested Resources:

Internet sites, textbook, maps, photographs, non-fiction books, and artifacts.

Common Assessment:

Observation, quizzes, worksheets, presentations,

Quarter Taught:

Introduced in the 1^st quarter and re-enforced throughout the year.

Content Standard:

Hist. Std 2.2.a:

Students know how to interpret and evaluate primary and secondary sources of historical information.

Essential Learning Target:

S.W.B.A.T. distinguish between primary and secondary sources.

Student Friendly:

S.W.B.A.T. tell the difference between a primary source and a secondary source.

Success Criteria:

Students will read for comprehension and be able to answers questions after looking at primary and secondary sources.

Suggested Resources:

Textbook, non-fiction books, internet sites, maps, artifacts, documents, photographs, newspaper articles, and first hand accounts.

Common Assessment:

Observations, quizzes, worksheets, and presentations.

Quarter Taught

Taught in the 1^st quarter and re-enforced throughout the year.

Content Standard:

Hist. Std 2.2:c

Students know how to interpret and evaluate primary and secondary sources of historical information.

Essential Learning Target:

Examine data for point of view, historical context, bias, distortion, or propaganda.

Student Friendly:

S.W.B.A.T. look at different information sources and notice what the author’s point of view is, what part of history is it part of, if there is any bias or distortion of facts.

Success Criteria:

Students will be able to comprehend what they are reading. They will also be able to form opinions about the information they are looking at and question the way the information is presented.

Suggested Resources:

Textbooks, web sites, pictures, non-fiction books, articles, ads, and newspapers.

Common Assessment:

Observations, written accounts, discussions, quizzes, and presentations.

Quarter Taught:

Introduced in the first quarter of school and re-enforced throughout the year.

Content Standard:

Geo. Std. 1.1:

Students know how to use maps, globes, and other geographic tools to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial perspective.

Essential Learning Target:

Interpreting and constructing maps, globes, models, charts, and geographic databases.

Student Friendly:

S.W.B.A.T. create, add to, change, and fill in information on maps, globes, models, charts, and other geographical resources.

Success Criteria:

Students will be able to show they understand this concept by forming their own questions,

answering questions put before them, labeling information correctly, and creating documents such as posters, charts, and reports.

Suggested Resources:

Textbooks, web sites, pictures, non-fiction books, articles, ads, and newspapers.

Common Assessment:

Observations, written accounts, discussions, quizzes, and presentations.

Quarter Taught:

Introduced in the first quarter of school and re-enforced throughout the year.

Content Standards:

Geo. Std. 4.5:

Students know how cooperation and conflict among people influence the division and control of Earth’s surface.

Essential Learning Target:

Describing how cooperation and conflict among people contribute to political, economic, and social divisions of Earth’s surface.

Student Friendly:

S.W.B.A.T. describe how people working either together or against each other effects the economies and social cultures of the countries of the world.

Success Criteria:

Students will be able to show they understand this concept by forming their own questions,

answering questions put before them, and creating documents such as posters, charts, and reports.

Suggested Resources:

Textbooks, web sites, pictures, non-fiction books, articles, ads, and newspapers.

Common Assessment:

Observations, written accounts, discussions, quizzes, and presentations.

Quarter Taught:

Introduced in the first quarter of school and re-enforced throughout the year.

Content Standard:

Geo. Std. 6.1:

Students know how to apply geography to understand the past.

Essential Learning Target:

Describing how places and environments have influenced events and conditions in the past.

Student Friendly:

S.W.B.A.T. explain how places and situations can effect what happens and how people deal with the end results.

Success Criteria:

Students will be able to show they understand this concept by forming their own questions,

answering questions put before them, and creating documents such as posters, charts, and reports.

Suggested Resources:

Textbooks, web sites, pictures, non-fiction books, articles, ads, and newspapers.

Common Assessment:

Observations, written accounts, discussions, quizzes, and presentations.

Quarter Taught:

Introduced in the first quarter of school and re-enforced throughout the year.

Content Standard:

Civics Std 4.2:

Students know how citizens can fulfill their responsibilities for preserving the constitutional republic.

Essential Learning Target:

Identifying civic responsibilities and contemporary issues that involve civic responsibilities and analyzing various positions on those responsibilities.

Student Friendly:

S.W.B.A.T. identify, describe, and question the responsibilities that come with being a citizen of a country.

Success Criteria:

Students will be able to show they understand this concept by forming their own questions,

answering questions put before them, labeling information correctly, and creating documents such as posters, charts, and reports.

Suggested Resources:

Textbooks, web sites, pictures, non-fiction books, articles, ads, and newspapers.

Common Assessment:

Observations, written accounts, discussions, quizzes, and presentations.

Quarter Taught:

Introduced in the first quarter of school and re-enforced throughout the year.

Standard 1.1

Geography

Essential Learning Target:

Students know how to use maps, globes, and other geographic tools to

Acquire, process, and report information from a spatial perspective.

Student Friendly:

Know and tell the differences between maps, globes, pictures taken from airplanes and satellites, and geographic models.

Be able to pick out different map projections and make maps, globes, models, and charts

Students will need to understand map scales, compass roses, and legends.

Atlases and geography workbooks that teach skills that are needed.

Students will be able to complete an assigned task requiring the use of maps.

Introduced 1^st quarter of 5^th grade and continued through 6^th with increasing difficulty.

Standard 1.2

Geography

Essential Learning Target:

Students develop knowledge of earth to locate people, places, and environments.

Student Friendly:

Know where each of the 50 states is located and identify physical features of the United States and the world.

Locate places using latitude and longitude.

Students will need to understand how to use study guides for learning states and capitals, be able to recognize physical features, and understand all facets of latitude and longitude.

Atlases and geography workbooks that teach skills that are needed.

Students will be able to complete an assigned task requiring the use of maps, and complete blank maps of the United States as well as find cities on a map using latitude and longitude.

Introduced 1^st quarter of 5^th grade and continued through 6^th with increasing difficulty.

Geography Standard 2:

Essential Learning Target:

Students know the physical and human characteristics of places, and use this knowledge to define and study regions and their patterns of change.

Student Friendly:

Know what parts of the landscape are natural and what is man made.

Be able to identify landforms and recognize changes made by man.

Use what you know to study the similarities and differences in the regions of the US and the world.

Students will need to be able to identify shapes associated with landforms and the changes made by man, read information about different regions, and determine whether man’s changes are positive or negative.

Pictures and definitions of landforms, practice worksheets, video instruction, the internet, and reference books.

Students will be able to answer questions posed about landforms and how they influence the people who live there.

Started 1^st quarter and continued throughout the year.

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1.1 and 1.2

Essential Learning Target:

Know the chronological order of events in history and be able to place events on a time line.

Student Friendly:

To chose the order that events in history happened and be able to put them in the right place on a time line.

Read for information, know numbers used in dates and chronological order of dates.

Know the meaning of B.C. and A.D.

Scott-Foresman Textbook

Various reading pieces on events in history

Worksheet questions

Begin in 1^st as introduction and continue throughout year to show improvement.

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1.4

Essential Learning Target:

Interpret facts to determine cause and effect relationship.

Student Friendly:

Understand the causes and the effects of an event in history.

Read for information, match cause and effect statements.

Scotts-Foresman textbook

Worksheets for practice

Quiz given after a lesson.

1^st for introduction

Continued throughout year to improve accuracy.

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1.4

Essential Learning Target:

Interpret facts to determine cause and effect relationship.

Student Friendly:

Understand the causes and the effects of an event in history.

Read for information, match cause and effect statements.

Scotts-Foresman textbook

Worksheets for practice

Quiz given after a lesson.

1^st for introduction

Continued throughout year to improve accuracy.

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2.1

History

Essential Learning Target:

Students know how to formulate questions and hypotheses regarding what happened in the past and to obtain and analyze historical data to answer questions and test hypotheses.

Student Friendly:

Writing and answering questions about the past, finding facts from many sources, and understanding the difference between primary and secondary sources.

Students need to read for comprehension and be able to find answers from reading text. They also need to know how to write questions in complete thoughts.

Textbooks, internet sites, and non-fiction books

Students will write questions as they read their textbooks and complete worksheets to increase skills

Introduced in 1^st quarter, continued throughout year.

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2.2

History

Essential Learning Target:

Students know how to interpret and evaluate primary and secondary sources of historical information.

Student Friendly:

Using primary and secondary sources to find facts about history and to understand point-of-view and bias.

Students need to read for comprehension and be able to find answers from maps, photographs, artwork, and artifacts. They also need to recognize the authors point-of -view.

Textbooks, internet sites,  non-fiction books, maps, and artifacts.

Students will write responses to questions posed  about primary and secondary sources.

Introduced in 1^st quarter, continued throughout year.

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3.1 & 3.2

History

Essential Learning Target:

Students know how various societies were affected by contacts and exchanges among diverse peoples.

Students understand the history of social organization various societies.

Student Friendly:

Know the characteristics of a culture, society, and a civilization and how these developed in the past.

Students need to read for comprehension and be able to locate and compare the characteristics of different cultures.

Textbooks, internet sites,  non-fiction books.

Students will write responses to questions posed  about cultural development.

Introduced in 1^st quarter, continued throughout year.

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4

History

Essential Learning Target:

Students understand how science, technology, and economic activity have developed, changed, and affected societies throughout history.

Student Friendly:

Understand how people’s lives have changed from the times of hunter-gatherers to modern man because of scientific discoveries, inventions, and the ways people make and use resources.

Students need to read for comprehension and be able to identify cause and affect relationships.

Textbooks, internet sites,  non-fiction books.

Students will write responses to questions posed about how scientific discoveries and inventions have changed people’s lives. They will also be able to describe the economic development of different cultures.

Introduced in 1^st quarter, continued throughout year.

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5.1 & 5.2

History

Essential Learning Target:

Students understand how democratic ideas and institutions have developed, changed, and/or been maintained.

Students know how various systems of government have developed and functioned throughout history.

Student Friendly:

Know how the idea of democracy developed in the United States, the basic meaning of U.S. documents, and how the laws and governments of ancient and medieval societies helped in its development. They should also understand the different kinds of government that have existed over time.

Students need to read for comprehension, compare and contrast types of governments, analyze text for meaning and importance, and recognize the sequence of events in democratic development.

Textbooks, movies, internet sites, and non-fiction reading selections

Students will put events in order that show the development of democracy, describe the contributions made by ancient laws, and answer basic questions concerning historical documents.

Introduced 1^st quarter and continued throughout the year.

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6.1 & 6.2

History

Essential Learning Target:

Students know the historical development of religions and philosophies.

Students know how societies have been affected by religions and philosophies.

Student Friendly:

Know how different religions have developed throughout history, how different beliefs have affected the lives of the people who hold those beliefs, and how that has effected the development of different countries.

Students need to be able to read for comprehension, recognize religious beliefs, compare and contrast the effects of those beliefs.

Textbooks, internet sites, non-fiction reading selections.

Students will write responses to questions posed about different religions and how the society involved was affected.

Introduced 1^st quarter and continued throughout the year.