Subject:
|Subject: Social Studies |Timeframe Needed for Completion: 4 weeks |
|Grade Level: Third Grade | |
|Unit Title: History/Colonial America |Grading Period: 1st |
|Big Idea/Theme: Leadership, Events, Change |
|Understandings: |
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|Historical events often have effects on the local community or regions over time |
|Diverse historical people influence local communities and regions over time. |
|Communities and regions are often developed due to necessity for survival and to preserve values and traditions. |
|People, events and places impact history over time |
|Historical sources from multiple points of view may be used to develop an understanding of what happened in the past. |
|Curriculum Goals/Objectives: |Essential Questions: |
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|3.H.1.1 Explain key historical events that occurred in the local community and regions over time. |What influenced the English to come to America? |
|3.H.1.2 Analyze the impact of contributions made by diverse historical figures in local communities and regions over time. | |
|3.H.1.3 Exemplify the ideas that were significant in the development of local communities and regions. |Discuss how some American citizens worked to defend |
|3.H.2.1 Explain change over time through historical narratives. (events, people and places) |America’s basic principles? |
|3.H.2.2 Explain how multiple perspectives are portrayed through historical narratives. | |
|Essential Skills/Vocabulary: |Assessment Tasks: |
| |*Students will write to explain why Europeans came to |
|Europeans and other settlers came to North America (Roanoke Island/Jamestown). |America, where they settled, and why they chose that |
|Colonists developed rules for government (constitution). |location. |
|Diverse historical figures have made contributions to various communities and regions (Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Smith…). Local figures | |
|could include: John White, Sir Walter Raleigh, Virginia Dare, John Smith, Christopher Newport, Pocahontas, J.P. Knapp, W.T. Griggs, Thomas Jarvis, etc.|*Students will compose biographies of famous historical|
| |figures that contributed to various communities. |
|Communities and regions are often developed due to necessity for survival and to preserve values and traditions. | |
|How natural resources affect the location of development. | |
|Development and traditions of various groups in local communities and regions affect the economic development and the cultural make-up of a community. | |
|Technological innovations have impacted local communities and regions. | |
|How people adapt and modify the environment when developing local communities and regions. | |
|How human and environmental features affect development. | |
|Integration Opportunities: |
|Field trip to Jamestown or Roanoke Island (funding?) |
|Books: |
|Explore Colonial Jamestown by Elaine Landau |
|Thomas Jefferson by Judy Emerson |
|Thomas Jefferson: a photo-illustrated biography by T.M. Usel ; historical consultant, Steve Potts. |
|John Adams: second president, 1797-1801 written and illustrated by Mike Venezia |
|Websites: |
| (links to other websites and other resources) |
|index.html |
|three perspectives of an event during the civil war- |
|To learn more about James and Benjamin Duke: |
|To learn more about John Lawson and other North Carolina explorers: |
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|Learn360 Videos: |
|Virginia: Jamestown |
|Virginia: Williamsburg and Yorktown |
|The Jamestown Settlement |
|Colonial Days Video Quiz |
|Colonial Settlements Video and Video Quiz |
|Tall Tales & Legends: Pocahontas |
|Just the Facts: Colonization of North American English Settlements Part I |
|Celebrating America: Symbols and Ceremonies |
|The Fight for Independence Video Quiz |
|Just the Facts: 50 Years in American History |
|Native American Life |
|Native Peoples of the Woodlands |
|Thomas Jefferson and all related segments |
|Creating the Federal Government |
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|Literature possibilities: |
|Susanne Tate: (Lost Colony) Soft Step & Bright Eyes (story based on report from Sir Walter Raleigh and the first contact in America) |
|Blood on the River by Elisa Carbone |
|Dear America series |
|Sarah, Plain and Tall |
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|Guest Speaker possibilities: |
|Barbara Snowden, Currituck County Historian (Currituck/NC History) |
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