SS_Curriculum

Dever Avenue School
4th Grade Social Studies Curriculum Map

Essential Question: How did the geography/location of New York influence its history from the Ice Age through the present time?
Month	Content	Concepts	Skills	Materials & Resources	Assessments
September	Geography of New York State	location movement regions resources human-environment interaction	map skills vocabulary illustrations	textbook Nystrom maps classroom maps The Union of Two Maps - Geology and Topography National Atlas.gov 1868 Map of New York and Waterways	Macmillan tests teacher made tests teacher observations
October	Geography	location movement regions resources human-environment interaction	map skills vocabulary illustrations	textbook Nystrom maps classroom maps 1868 Map of New York and Waterways	Macmillan tests teacher made tests teacher observations
November	First people of New York Native Americans Iroquois Confederacy	contributions use of resources location of different tribes	cause and effect timeline map reading summarizing essay writing	Garvies Point field trip "Teppee Ted" wilderness museum social studies weekly newspapers trade books read aloud Iroquois of the Northeast (Carnegie Museum of Natural History) General information on the Iroquois Historical Information on the Iroquois Iroquois Oral Traditions The First Inhabitants North American Aboriginal Groups (Canada, United States, Mexico)	Macmillan tests teacher made tests teacher observations
December	Explorers Chapter 4 Dutch English Colonists	contributions use of resources location of different tribes reasons for exploration reasons for settlement colonization	cause and effect compare and contrast fact and opinion timeline map reading summarizing essay writing	Garvies Point field trip "Teppee Ted" wilderness museum social studies weekly newspapers trade books read aloud	Macmillan tests teacher made tests teacher observations
January	Explorers Chapter 4 Dutch English Colonists	contributions use of resources location of different tribes reasons for exploration reasons for settlement colonization	cause and effect compare and contrast fact and opinion timeline map reading summarizing essay writing	Garvies Point field trip "Teppee Ted" wilderness museum social studies weekly newspapers trade books read aloud History: Discovery and Exploration The Discovery and Exploration directory included here offers research tools with maps, travel literature, and atlases; links to bibliographies, journals, and biographies, as well as time lines and historic information. Young historians in upper-elementary, middle, and high school will find a wealth of easily accessed information.	Macmillan tests teacher made tests teacher observations
February	Revolutionary War	reasons for fighting the war how the Americans won conflicting loyalties	cause and effect compare and contrast fact and opinion timeline map reading summarizing essay writing	Garvies Point field trip "Teppee Ted" wilderness museum social studies weekly newspapers trade books read aloud	Macmillan tests teacher made tests teacher observations
March	Building a Nation	need for our own constitution physical geography affects our new nation equality	debates conflict resolution viewpoints drawing conclusions	videos true books Articles of Confederation - the Avalon Project at the Yale Law School	Macmillan tests teacher made tests teacher observations
April	Erie Canal	how the waterway impacted on the growth of New York transportation	n	picture books songs reading graphs History of the Erie Canal 1868 Map of New York and Waterways New York Archives of Canal Records	n
May	Civil War	n	n	n	n
June	Government Present Day	nnn	n	n	n