First Quarter
Unit 1-lessons 2-5

Explain how rules can be made and changed by voting. Use symbols, find locations, and determine directions on maps.
Compare rural, urban, and suburban communities.
Locate communities, states, and countries on maps.
Demonstrate map and globe skills.

Unit 2-lesson 1

Identify landforms and bodies of water.

Second Quarter
Unit 2-lesson 3,4,5

Distinguish between producing and consuming.
Learn how people depend on the physical environment and its resources to meet their needs.
Interpret and construct bar graphs.
Identify ways to conserve and replenish natural resources.

Explain how work provides income to purchase goods and services.
Distinguish between producing and consuming.
Identify ways people are both producers and consumers.
Explain the choices people make about earning, spending and saving money.
Use a map to follow a route.
Obtain information from a pie chart.
Explain how countries are linked by trade and transportation.

Use tables to categorize information.
Find locations on maps.
Identify functions of government.
Compare the roles of public officials.
Identify patriotic songs, symbols, and mottoes.

Compare the lives and contributions of various Native American groups.
Explain how local people have influenced local community history.
Describe how weather patterns, natural resources, seasonal patterns, and natural hazards affect activities and settlement patterns.
Explain significance of national celebrations.

Fourth Quarter
Unit 5-lessons 4,5

Our Country Long Ago

Name several sources of information about a given period or event.
Interpret a time line.
Identify contributions of historical figures who have influenced the nation.

Unit 6-lessons 1, 3, 5

People and Places in History

Explain that the United States is a land of people who have diverse ethnic origins.
Identify and explain the significance of various community, state, and national landmarks.
Describe how science and technology have changed communication and transportation.