Week/ Month	Content	Skills for Student Achievement	Assessment	Performance Standards Addressed
Sept	Chapter 1: Learning about the community (US history) Unit 1-Unit 5 The student will use directional and positional words to locate and describe people, places and things. The student will demonstrate working knowledge of the cardinal directions. The student will use maps and gloves to demonstrate specific geographical knowledge. The student will identify specific landforms on a map using geographical terms.	Students will name and use directional words and locations in the school and community. Students will locate places using simple maps, and understand that maps are drawings of location and place as viewed from above. Students will compare distances between two or more places shown on a map with simple terms, such as farther and closer. Students will use cardinal and intermediate directions to locate places Students will locate on a map the major countries states and major cities of the United States Students will use an atlas to locate geographic information Students will explain and use introductory geographical terms.	Practice and Activity Book Assessment Book Foldable Study Guide Teacher Observation Cooperative Groups Vocabulary Test Question and answer Graphic Organizers Chapter Test Media map unit	VA 4,6 VA 1 VB 1 VB 2 VC 2
Oct	Chapter 2: Communities and Geography The student will use directional and positional words to locate and describe people, places and things The student will distinguish between physical and human-made features of places on the Earth’s surface.	Students will name and locate physical features of the United States including places they have read Describe how people adapt to and modify the physical environment of their communities Describe landforms and how people interact with them Identify and use the compass rose, grid and symbols to locate places on maps using landform map Identify different kinds of resources Explain how people work to protect natural resources Summarize how people can take responsibility in caring for their natural resources Students will name and locate major human-made features of the United States, including features about which they have read	Practice and Activity Book Assessment Book Foldable Study Guide Teacher Observation Cooperative Groups Vocabulary Test Question and answer Graphic Organizers Rubric of “Make a Model Community” Chapter Test	VC1 VC 2
Nov - Dec	The student will understand how families live today and in earlier times, recognizing that some aspects change over time while others stay the same. Chapter 3 and 4 (US and World History) The students will demonstrate knowledge of the people who settled in North America. The student will understand how families live today and in earlier times, recognizing that some aspects change over time while others stay the same.	Students will compare family life in his or her community from earlier times and today Students will compare family life in at least three distant places and time Students will compare technologies from earlier times and today, and identify the impact of invention on historical change Students will understand that large and diverse American Indian nations were the original inhabitants of North America Students will demonstrate knowledge of European exploration and settlements of the North American continent and the resulting interaction with American Indian nations. Students will compare family life in their own communities from earlier times and today Students will compare family life in at least three different places and times Students will compare technology from earlier times and today, and identify the impact of invention on historical change	Practice and Activity Book Assessment Book Foldable Study Guide Teacher Observation Cooperative Groups Vocabulary Test Question and answer Graphic Organizers Chapter Test Laura Ingalls Wilder unit Biography unit in Media	IA 1,2,3 IC 1,2 IIIA 1,2,3
Jan-Mar	Student will describe civil values, rights and responsibilities in a republic. Chapters 8 and 9 The student will understand the role of government, rules, and law and why we have them. The student will know basic functions of government.	Students will demonstrate knowledge of civic values that facilitate thoughtful and effective participation in civic life. Students will explain the rights and responsibilities of people living in a democracy, including the principle of majority rule and minority rights. Students will give examples of rules in the classroom/school and community, provide reasons for the specific rules, and know the characteristics of good rules. Students will explain the rules and laws apply to everyone and describe consequences for breaking the rules or laws. Students will know that the United Stares and the State of Minnesota each have a constitution that outlines the rules for government. Students will describe examples of specific services provided by government. Students will name people involved in government, including current and past government leaders, employees, and volunteers.	Practice and Activity Book Assessment Book Foldable Study Guide Teacher Observation Cooperative Groups Vocabulary Test Question and answer Graphic Organizers Kid Pix Demonstration of 3-D Map Chapter Test	VIIA 1,2 VII B 1,2, 3 VIID 1,2
April-May	The students will understand that we can learn about the past from different sorts of evidence	Students will compare different kinds of historical sources and describe the different sorts of information the sources provide	Laura Ingalls Wilder unit Mecca House history	IVB 1