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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