LEARN NC

K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

Social Studies — Grade 4

Goal 7: The learner will recognize how technology influences change within North Carolina.

Objective 7.02. Analyze the effect of technology on North Carolina's citizens, past and present.

Additional related resources

We’re in the process of aligning our content for students to the Standard Course of Study. As we do, you’ll find it here.

General resources

Aligned lesson plans

Tobacco bag stringing: Elementary activity four
In this activity for grades 3–5, students will read and evaluate a primary source letter from the Tobacco Bag Stringing collection. This should be done after Activity one, which is the introductory activity about tobacco bag stringing. Students will investigate the influence of technology, and its lack, on the tobacco bag stringers. They will do a role play/debate in which they will assume the roles of owners of companies and other people that were involved in the issue.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Social Studies)
By Pauline S. Johnson.
A Siouan village
In Intrigue of the Past, page 4.6
In their study of an excavated village site, students will record observations about a site feature and infer how past peoples used individual features and the site as a whole. They will also summarize how archaeologists use observation and inference to determine past lifeways.
Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Social Studies)
Living the pioneer life
In this lesson, students will use photographs of Appalachian log dwellings to understand how advances in technology, the desire to own land, and political incentives have resulted in economic and social changes over time for the people of North Carolina. The students will examine text and historical documents to assess the time period in which log cabin structures were built, the reasons for constructing them, and the lives of the people who built these houses.
Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Social Studies)
By Sonna Jamerson.

Resources on the web

Uplink outpost: To the future class of...
In this Xpeditions lesson, students use the interactive feature in Xpedition Hall called Uplink Outpost to discover ways to interpret geography in their community. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Social Studies)
Provided by: National Geographic
An entreduction
This lesson illustrates the differences between inventions and innovations. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Social Studies)
Provided by: National Council on Economic Education