Dates |
Content Topics |
Essential Concepts |
Activities/Assessments |
August
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Land and Climate
Map skills review
Nations Resources
Regions of US
People and Land |
- Describe Landforms
- Explain how and why climate varies
- Political vs physical maps
- Natural resources, scarcity, goods, and services
|
- Vocab. Study guide
- Unit resource pages
- Map and skill practice pages
- Quiz
- Lab map work
- Unit test
|
September
|
Ancient Americans |
- People of N. West, S. West
- Plains and East
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- Vocabulary resource sheet
- KWL
- Lab research-American Indian art, homes, and clothing
- Resource skill practice
- Quiz
- Unit test
|
October
|
Explorations and Settlements
Longitude and Latitude |
- World Travel and Trade
- Europe
- Europeans arrive in America
- Conquests in America
- New Spain
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- Reading and Vocab. Study guide
- Graphing map skills
- Time line graph
- Skill builder practice
- Test prep/review page
- Unit test
|
November/
December
|
European Settlements
New England Colonies
American Revol..
Unit 4
|
- Roanoke, Jamestown, Dutch and French Colonies
- New England: geography, life and industry
- Causes of the revolution
- French Indian War
- Taxes in colonies
- Battles
|
- Lab work: Life in the settlements
- Vocabulary guide
- Chapter study guides
- Skill builders –line graphing
- Quiz
- Unit test
- First state reports
- Reading voc. Study guide
- Skillbuilder practice
- KWL
|
Jan/Feb |
A New Nation
Unit 5 |
- Early Republic
- War of 1812
- Jackson/trail of tears
- Industial Revolution
- Texas/Mexican War
- Moving West
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- Reading graphs and line maps
- Play-Flatboats
- Indian Report
- Cumberland Gap – Lab
- Vocabulary Guide
- Skill Builders
- Chapter skill builders
- Unit Review-test/ quiz
|
March |
Civil War
Unit 6 |
- Causes of the Civil War
- Struggle for Freedom
- War begins
- Nation At War
- Reconstruction and challenges for the nation
|
- Comparing line, circle and bar graphs
- Skill practice
- Vocabulary Guide
- Chapter Quiz
- Unit test
|
| April |
Transforming
The Nation
Unit 7 |
- Railroad
- Ranchers
- Conflict on Plains
- Immigrants
|
- Ancestor Project
- Vocabulary Guide
- KWL
- Skill practice
- Chapter quiz
- Unit Review/ test/quiz
|
| May/June |
20th Century
Linking Present
To Past |
- New Territories
- WW I & WWII
- Depression
- America Faces change
- Life in USA 1950’s through 1990’s
|
- Civil Rights project
- War Heroes interview
- Vocabulary Guide
- Skill Practice
- Chapter Review
- Unit Test/ Quiz
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