First Quarter
Unit 1:
Chapter 1 (lessons 1-3)
Chapter 2 (lessons 1-3)
Unit 2:
Chapter 3 (lessons 1-4)
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Our Community
People in Communities |
Unit 1
Chapter 1:
Understand the concept of community.
Compare and contrast communities across the United States.
Identify and describe a person who exemplifies good citizenship.
Define the concept of culture.
Use a map scale to determine distance between places.
Chapter 2:
Explain and describe rural, suburban, and urban communities.
Unit 2
Chapter 3:
Discuss ways that cultural groups are alike and different and ways that they work together and cooperate.
Identify characteristics of good citizenship such as a belief in responsibility for the common good.
Identify reasons people form communities.
Identify the importance of voting, a civic responsibility.
Explain what is meant by the term Great Migration. |
Second Quarter
Unit 2:
Chapter 4 (lesson 3 only)
Map Skills
P. 98-99 Cardinal and intermediate directions
P. 110-111 Hemispheres
Unit 3:
Chapter 5 (lesson 1-3)
Map Skills
Locator Map P. 222-223
Unit 4:
Chapter 8 (lessons 1-3)
Mid-Year Test administered within 3 weeks prior to the end of the second quarter
(Chapters 1-5)
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People in Communities
Where are Communities?
History of Communities |
Use cardinal and intermediate directions to locate places on maps.
Identify and use a compass rose to locate places on a map.
Chapter 4:
Develop map skills by using the equator and prime meridian to identify the four hemispheres.
Identify celebrations across our nation.
Unit 3
Chapter 5:
Describe variations in the physic environment, including climate, landforms, and natural resources.
Compare how people in different communities adapt to the physical environment.
Identify characteristics of good citizenship, such as responsibility for the common good.
Chapter 7:
Identify and use symbols to locate places on maps.
Unit 4
Chapter 8:
Compare the ways people in a community meet their needs for transportation over time and in the present.
Identify inventors who have developed new technologies and explain their impact on daily life.
Interpret and develop simple time lines of events that have occurred.
Describe historical times in terms of years, decades, and centuries.
Compare ways people in the local community and communities around the world meet their needs for communication over time and in the future.
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Third Quarter
Chapter 8 (lesson 4)
Unit 5:
Chapter 9
Chapter 10 (lessons 1-3) |
Communities at Work
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Identify the impact of new technology on communities around the world.
Identify the impact of new technology in the medical field on communities around the world.
Unit 5
Chapter 9
Identify ways of earning, spending, and saving money.
Explain the differences betweens needs and wants.
Identify characteristics of good citizenship such as responsibility for the common good.
Identify and example of making an economic choice.
Explain the idea of opportunity cost.
Explain how supply and demand affects the price of a good or a service.
Explain how the cost of production and selling price affect profits.
Chapter 10
Explain how producers use natural resources, human resources, and capital resources to produce goods. Interpret visuals including illustrations.
Define and identify examples of scarcity.
Describe the effects of modern communication and transportation on trade.
Explain the concept of a free market. |
Fourth Quarter
Unit 6:
Chapter 11 (lessons 1-3)
Chapter 12 (lessons 1-3)
End of Year Test administered within 3 weeks prior to the end of the year
(Chapters 8-12) |
Community Government |
Unit 6
Chapter 11:
Identify how people formed communities to gain security and to live under fair laws.
Compare how people in communities around the world meet their needs for government.
Explain the importance of the Magna Carta and the Mayflower Compact.
Explain the importance of the Declaration of Independence.
Explain the importance of the United States Constitution.
Identify the rights guaranteed in the Bill of Rights.
Identify characteristics of good citizenship such as a belief in justice truth, and equality.
Identify Abraham Lincoln's contributions to the United States government.
Identify important acts of civic responsibility such as obeying laws and voting.
Explain why government is important in the school and classroom.
Chapter 12
Identify services commonly provided by local governments.
Identify ways people in the local community meet their needs.
Explain how local government services are financed.
Identify and use a grid to locate places on maps and globes.
Identify longitude and latitude.
Identify the basic structure of local government.
Identify local government officials and explain how they are chosen.
Identify actions that individuals or groups can take to improve their community. |