SS081.3

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Contents 1 Social Studies Standard 1.3 - Level 8 2 Standard in Kid Friendly Language 3 Standard Unwrapped 4 Instructional Strategies 5 Assessment Strategies 6 Resources 7 Projects and Activities

Social Studies Standard 1.3 - Level 8

Students use chronology to examine and explain historical relationships.

Standard in Kid Friendly Language

Standard Unwrapped

KNOW

• • Dark Ages, Crusades, Protestant Reformation, Age of Exploration, Columbian Exchange
  • Pilgrims, Puritans, Jamestown,
  • Native American, Slave & European Interaction
  • American Colonial Society
  • French and Indian War
  • Lead-Up to the Revolutionary War
  • Declaration of Independence, Revolutionary War, Creating a New Government
  • Industrial Revolution, Western Movement and Manifest Destiny,
  • Slavery, Underground Railroad, Amendments #13, #14, #15
  • Lead-Up to Civil War, Civil War

ABLE TO DO

• Students will explain the historical relationships by:
  • Explaining Causes and Effects of all events up to 1865.
  • Examining data for Point of View, Bias, Distortion, and Propoganda regarding the time from 1492 to 1865.

Instructional Strategies

• Research the Pilgrims and why they came to America through Primary Sources.
• Look at the Puritans and the Salem Witch Trials and compare and contrast differing points of view within their society and with the rest of the world.
• Watch Last of the Mohicans to identify biases and differing points of view among the British, the Colonists, and the Native Americans.
• Perform Boston Tea Party skits in chronolical order leading up the the Revolutionary War. Look at Cause and Effect of all activities and how they led to the Revolutionary War.
• Act out Constitutional Convention Similation to compare and contrast differing points of view within the newly formed United States regarding large states versus small states and Northern states versus Southern States.
• Conduct a Southern slave auction and write written responses regarding point of view from the perspectives of the buyers, slaves and auctioneers/slaver roles.
• Create Time-line activity for lead-up to Civil War to identify the causes of the Civil War.

Assessment Strategies

• Tests
• Quizes
• Constructed Response
• Similations
• Research and Examination of Primary Sources

Resources

• Textbook
• Videos and Movies to identify historical relationships, mostly looking at point of view and biases:
  • In Search of the Salem Witchtrials
  • Last of the Mohicans
  • The Crossing
  • Roots, Adventures of Huck Finn, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Race to Freedom
• Slavery and other kinds of quizes
• Civil War Info
• History of KKK
• Lincoln/Douglas Debates
• Mexican/American War
• Westward Movement/Donnar Party
• Oregon Trail
• Oregon Trail Game
• Salem WItch Trials
• Jamestown
• Pilgrims

Projects and Activities

• Similations and Hands-On Activities
  • Pilgrim Primary Sources Round-Robin
  • Puritan General Court
  • Boston Tea Party Skits
  • Constitutional Convention
  • Slave Auction

• Each Activity or similation has a wrap-up activity that examines and explains the historical relationships using cause and effect and examination of point of view.