Social Studies — Grade 4

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Observing connections: Changing landscapes

The students will learn about the changing environment through study and observation. They will reflect on these changes in the environment and create their own landscape and habitat. This is the second lesson in “Observing connections,” a series of three in which students are creating art based on their observations.

Author: Lisa Mitchell

Format: lesson plan (grades 4–5)

A Siouan village

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)

Tobacco bag stringing: Elementary activity four

In this activity for grades 3–6, 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.

Author: Pauline S. Johnson

Format: lesson plan (grades 3–5)

An entreduction

This lesson illustrates the differences between inventions and innovations.

Provider: National Council on Economic Education

Format: lesson plan (grades 3–5)