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 * Month || Topic/Theme || Skills || Activities || Assessment ||
 * September || *Maps, Continents, Oceans
 * Overview of US Regions
 * Geography
 * Globe/maps || *map/globe skills
 * Review continents/oceans
 * Reading Strategies
 * Critical Thinking Skills
 * Study/test prep || *Skills lesoons
 * Variuos map work
 * TFK
 * Celebrate Constitution Day || *test
 * Create Maps
 * Vocab/chapter assessments ||
 * October || *landforms
 * Chapter1 -3 pages 138-187 || * teaching different Landforms
 * Unit 2 lessons 1 and 4
 * vocab development || * lessons from book
 * Games
 * Activity Book
 * Technology
 * SmartBaord || *"hands on "project
 * Writing Summaries
 * Chapter assessments ||
 * November || *Northeast Region
 * Study of CT
 * Unti 3 Southeast || *Learning states, capitals, and locations
 * Resources, products, and landforms
 * note taking/main idea (CT)
 * Research Strategies || *Computer research
 * Lessons from Textbook
 * Projects/Murals
 * Liteature
 * Celebration of Veteran's Day || *Test
 * State Projects
 * Complete Graphic Organizers
 * Group Projects
 * Chpater Assessments ||
 * December || *Northeast region
 * Studyof CT
 * Unit 3 Southeast || *Famous People
 * Map Work
 * Non fiction/Expository Skills
 * Presentation Skills || *Complete detailed map of CT
 * Class discussions || *tests
 * Lewis and Clark ||
 * January || *Southeast Region
 * Chapter 6
 * Unit 4 Midwest || Famous People
 * Farming on the Coastal Plain
 * A Growing Season
 * Life ALong the Coast || *same for all 5 regions however different materials and projects || *teacher observations
 * class discussions
 * Special projects done independently ||
 * February || *Southeast Region
 * Chapter 7
 * Midwest region || *Highlands and Mountains
 * Growth of Piedmont Cities
 * Appalachia || *Balck History Month
 * Sharing appropriate materials || *chapter assessments ||
 * March || *Midwest Region
 * State Projects
 * Unit 5 Southwest || *Interior Plains
 * Waterways
 * Economy
 * People
 * Tourist Attractions
 * Physical Features || *Projects
 * Southwest Art
 * Southwest Artist Presentation || *chapter Assessments ||
 * April || *West Region || same as above || * Statte Projects || *chapter assessments ||
 * May/June || *West/ Pacific NW Regions || same as above || *4th Grade Share
 * songs
 * dancing || *50 States and capitals
 * State Projects
 * Chapter Assessment ||

Geography: describe the major land forms of each region compare/contrast weather and climate identify, locate, and spell correctly the 50 states and capitals Economic: classify the key features of US econmoy define what a natural, manufactured, renewable, and non renewable resource are determine how these resources affect each region's economy
 * Overview of Grade 4 goals:**
 * students will:
 * Students will:

How do the following "essential questions" about geography from both McTighe and the NCSS relate to the above listed possible student goals for 4th grade?

McTighe

Geography § Why is "where" important? § Why is/was __ located there? (e.g., capitol, factory, battle, etc.) § What makes places unique and different? § How does geography, climate and natural resources affect the way people live and work? § How does where I live influence how I live? § Why do people move? § What do we mean by ‘region’? § What story do maps and globes tell? § How and why do maps and globes change? § How do maps and globes reflect history, politics, and economics?

NCSS

PEOPLE, PLACES, ENVIRONMENT § Where are things located? § Why are they located where they are? § What patterns are reflected in the groupings of things? § What do we mean by region? § How do landforms change? § What implications do these changes have for people?


 * How do we use essential questions when planning curriculum?**