Social Studies Skills 4th/5th: Indicator #3
Social Studies Skills 4th/5th: Indicator #3
Social Studies Skills: Fourth and Fifth
Students will
demonstrate an understanding of historical and current events using
chronological and spatial thinking, develop historical interpretations, and
frame questions that include collecting and evaluating information from primary
and secondary sources.
In the
context of Maryland up to contemporary times and United States history through
1790, students are able to do everything required at earlier grades and are able
to:
Indicator #3
Interpret
and organize primary and secondary sources of information including pictures,
graphics, maps, atlases, artifacts, timelines, political cartoons, videotapes,
journals, and government documents.
A mini-unit
on famous women in history, the unit provides a variety of resources and
includes having the students interview women and include them in a timeline of
history.
National Transportation Month Activities that teach
the children to read maps, timetables for transportation, graphs and charts.
Several performance based activities
Students are always interested in Alexander Graham
Bell and his work with inventing the telephone and hearing devices for the deaf.
The Library of Congress American Memory Collection provides original
source and secondary source materials for students to research and investigate
the many contributions of Bell. This
site gives ideas and information with suggestions for lessons but not actual
lesson plans
Using Primary Sources is a group of suggestions
designed to help teachers use the source materials contained in the Library of
Congress
A lesson plan framework from the Library of Congress
that helps you utilize primary sources
A lesson plan
that requires the children to use maps and information to locate the birthplaces
of the US Presidents http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/01/g35/presidents.html
In this
lesson, students will collect information about size, population, and political
characteristics. They will then
chart the information and asked specific questions related to world geography http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/13/g35/countries.html
A lesson plan
with an outcomes of making a world history timeline that also includes using
charts, tables, graphs and analyzing political cartoons for timeline content, an
internet connected activity
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