Lee County Schools 4th Grade Social Studies Pacing Guide Alabama COS Standards
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1.Compare historical and current economic, political, and August (10 geographic information about Alabama on thematic maps, days) including weather and climate, physical-relief, waterway, transportation, political, economic development, land-use, and population maps. Describe types of migrations as they affect the environment, agriculture, economic development, and population changes in Alabama.
Locating Alabama and physical features
weather andclimatephysical reliefmapWaterwaystransportationpoliticalboundarieseconomicdevelopmentland-use-populationmigration
Ch. 1 pp. 336p. H12H22and p.939
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2. Describe cultures,governments, and economiesof prehistoric and historicNative Americans in Alabama.• Identifying locations ofprehistoric and historic NativeAmericans in Alabama• Describing types of prehistoriclife in AlabamaEx amples: plants, animals,people• Identifying roles of archaeoloand paleontologistsgists
August (5 days)
Early Alabamians
Paleo-Indian, Archaic, Woodland, Mississippian, Creeks, Choctaw, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Archaeologist, Paleontologist
Ch. 2-3; pp.58-83
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# 2. Describe cultures,governments, and economiesof prehistoric and historicNative Americans in Alabama.
September Native (7 days) Americans
Culture Government Economics Prehistoric Historic Native American
Ch.23;pp.58-83
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3. exploration and settlement inAlabama and the September European impact ofEuropeans on trade, health, landexpansion, (7 days) exploration and tribal reorganizationof Native American and populations inAlabama.List reasons for European• settlement Locating European settlements inearly Alabama• Explaining reasons for conflictsbetween Europeans and NativeAmericans in Alabama from 1519to 1840Examples: differing beliefs regardingland ownership, religious differences,cultural differences, broken treaties• Identifying main causes, keypeople, and historical documentsof the American Revolution and thenew nation
European pp.84-105 AmericanRevoluti on ExplorationSettle ment Taxation Lack of representation Historical documents Creek Civil War Trail of Tears Creek War InAlabama
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# 4. Describe the relationship ofthe five geographic regions September Geographic (7 days) regions & ofAlabama to the movement ofAlabama settlers during settlers theearly nineteenth century.• Describing natural resourcesof AlabamaEx amples: water, trees,coal, iron, limestone,petroleum, natural gas,soil• Describing the naturalenvironment of AlabamaEx amples: wildlife,vegetation, climate,bodies of water• Describing humanenvironments created bysettlementEx amples: housing, roads,place names
Coastal Plains Ch. 4 pp. Piedmont 107-117 Highland Rim Cumberland Plateau Ridge and Valley Natural resources Natural environment Human environment
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# 5. Describe Alabama’s entry intostatehood, including Alabama’sconstitutions and the threebranches of government.• Explaining political andgeographic reasons forchanges in location ofAlabama’s state capital• Identifying prominent politicalleaders during early statehoodin AlabamaEx amples: William WyattBibb, Thomas Bibb, IsraelPickens, William RufusKing
Statehood Constitution Legislative Executive Judicial State Capitals William Wyatt Bibb Thomas Bibb Israel Pickens William Rufus King
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October (8 Statehood days
Ch. 4 pp. 118-121
Lee County Schools 4th Grade Social Studies Pacing Guide Alabama COS Standards
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# 6. Identify cultural, October (8 days) economic, andpolitical aspects of the lifestylesof early nineteenthcenturyfarmers, plantation owners,slaves, and townspeople.Ex amples: culturalhousing,education, religion, recreation;economictransportation,livelihood;political-inequity of legalcodes• Recognizing the impact ofslavery on Alabama during theearly nineteenth century• Identifying major areas ofagricultural production usingan Alabama mapEx ample: cotton raised inthe Black Belt and fertileriver valleysCompare historical and current economic, political, and geographic information about Alabama on thematic maps, including weather and climate, physicalrelief, waterway, transportation, political, economic development, land-use, and population
Topic
Vocabulary
Textbook/ Resources Ch. 4 pp. 122-135
slavery farmers, plantation owners, slaves, townspeople, agricultural production, cultural, economic, political
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October (7 days) # 7. Identify reasons for Alabama’ssecession from the Union,including sectionalism, slavery,state rights, and economicdisagreement s.• Identifying Alabama’s rolein the organization of theConfederacyEx amples: secessionconvention, Montgomeryas first state capital,inauguration ceremonyfor leaders #8 Explain Alabama's October (5 days) role in and economic support of the civil War. Explaining resulting economic conditions of the Civil War, including the collapse of economic structure, destruction of the transportation infrastructure, and high casualty rates
Alabama's secession
Sectionalism Union Secession State rights Inauguration Confederacy Slavery
Ch. 4-5 pp.138-145
Civil War Civil War Port of Mobile ch. 5 pp. 146-156 Armament Center at SelmaCasualty rate Supplies Iron MunitionsTextiles Ships Collapse of economic structureTransportation infrastructure
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# 9. Describe political, social,and economic November (5 days) conditions inAlabama during Reconstruction.Ex amples: politicalmilitaryrule, presenceof Freedmen’s Bureau,Alabama’s readmittance tothe Union, sharecropping;socialcarpetbaggers,scalawa gs, Ku Klux Klan(KKK);economicsharecropping,scarcity of goods and money• Describing the Thirteenth,Fourteenth, and FifteenthAmendments to theConstitution of the UnitedStates• Identifying the role of AfricanAmericans in politics duringReconstruction in AlabamaEx amples: BenjaminSterling Turner, UnitedStates House ofRepresentatives (1871-1873);- Jeremiah
Reconstruction in Alabama
Reconstruction, Military rule, ch. 6 pp.168-180 Freedmen, bureau, sharecropping carpetbaggers, scalawags, klu klux klan, scarcity, democrats, republicans, thirteenth amendment, fifteenth amendment
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# 10. Describe significant social and December (8 days) educationalchanges in Alabama during the latenineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Examples: social-implementation of“separate but equal” court decision(Plessy versus Ferguson), birth of NationalAssociation for Advancement of ColoredPeople (NAACP) through NiagaraMovement;educationalestablishment of normalschools and landgrant colleges such asAlabama Agricultural and Mechanical (A& M) University, Auburn University, andTuskegee University• Explaining the development and changingrole of industry, trade, and agriculture inAlabama during the late nineteenth andearly twentieth centuries,
Education changes NAACP Plessy v.Ferguson Niagara Movement, Normal schools, Land grantschools, Jim Crow Laws, Populism, AlabamaConstitution of1901, FolkloreFolk art, Vernacular
Ch. 9 pp. 262-291Ch. 6 pp. 195-197Ch. 7 pp.203-204
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Lee County Schools 4th Grade Social Studies Pacing Guide Alabama COS Standards
Week
Topic
Vocabulary
Textbook/ Resources
NAEP Correlations
Technology Based Lessons & Links
# 16. Describe the impact ofpopulation growth oncities, major road systems,demographics, naturalresources, and the naturalenvironment of Alabamaduring the twentieth century.• Describing how technologicaladvancements broughtchange to Alabamians duringthe twentieth centuryEx amples: improvementof quality of life andexpanded employmentopportunities through useof electricity, improvementof transportationthrough introductionof automobiles andairplanes, improvement ofcommunication throughuse of satellites andcellular telephones• Describing the growinginfluence of foreign-based companies
March (7 days)
Population Growth & Technology
Population growth Cities Ch. 10 pp.294Road systems 327 Demographics Naturalresources Naturalenvironment Technologicaladvancem ent Employmentopportunitie s ElectricityTransportation Automobiles Airplanes Communication Satellites Cellulartelephones
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# 1. Identify historical and currenteconomic, political, andgeographic information aboutAlabama on thematic maps
March (5 days)
Map Skills
AlabamaThematic Maps:-weather andclimate-physical reliefmap-Waterwaystransportationpoliticalboundarieseconomicdevelopmen t-land-use-populationmigration
Ch. 1 pp. 336 p. H12H22 & p.9-39
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civil war
Civil War, Port of Mobile, Armament Center at Selma, Casualty rate
Ch. 5 pp. 146156
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# 8. Explain Alabama’s role in andeconomic support of the April (7 days) CivilWar.
# 9. Describe political, social,and economic conditionsin Alabama duringReconstruction.
April (7 days)
Reconstructio Reconstruction in ch. 6 pp. 168n Alabama Military 180 rule FreedmenBureau Sharecropping CarpetbaggersSc alawagsKlu Klux KlanScarcityDem ocratsRepublican sThirteenthAmen dmentFourteenth AmendmentFiftee nthAmendment
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# 11. Describe the impact of WorldWar I on Alabamians
April (6 days)
World War II
Ch. 7pp.202231
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# 13. Describe the economic andsocial impact of World War IIon Alabamians
May (9 days)
world War II
ch. 8 pp.243261
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World War I Migration Alabama Rainbow, DivisionTechnolo gy inWorld War Iairplanesmachine gunschemicalwarfare World War II, Economic impact, Social impact, TuskegeeAirmen, Rationing
# 16. Describe the impact ofpopulation growth oncities, major road systems,demographics, naturalresources, and the naturalenvironment of Alabamaduring the twentieth century.
May (9 days)
Population Growth & Technology
population growth Ch. 10 Cities Road pp.294-327 systems Demographics Naturalresources Naturalenvironme nt Technologicaladv ancement Employmentoppo rtunities ElectricityTranspo rtation Automobiles Airplanes Communication Satellites Cellulartelephone s
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Lee County Schools 4th Grade Social Studies Pacing Guide Alabama COS Standards
Week
Topic
Vocabulary
Textbook/ Resources
NAEP Correlations
Technology Based Lessons & Links
# 11. Describe the impact of WorldWar I on Alabamians.Ex amples: migration ofAfrican Americans to theNorth and West, utilizationof Alabama’s militaryinstallations and trainingfacilities, increasedproduction of goods forwar effort• Recognizing Alabamaparticipants in World War IEx ample: Alabama RainbowDivision• Identifying the use of newtechnology in World War IEx amples: airplanes,machine guns, chemicalwarfare
January (8days) World War I
World War I, Migration, Ch. 7 pp.202-231 AlabamaRainbow Division, Technology inWorld, War I-airplanesmachine gunschemicalwarfare
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# 12. Explain effects of the eventsof the 1920s and the GreatDepression on differentsocioeconomic groups.Ex amples: - effects of1920s-increase inavailability of electricityand employmentopportunities,increase in wages andproduct consumption,overproduction of goods,stock market crash;- effects of GreatDepression-over croppingof land, unemployment,poverty, establishment ofnew federal programs• Describing effects of supplyand demand on the economy
January (8days) Great Depression
GreatDepression, Socioeconomicgroups, Stock MarketCrash of 1929, Unemployment, Poverty, Supply and demand
ch. 7-8 pp. 219;233-244
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ch. 8 pp.243261
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# 13. Describe the economic andsocial impact of World February (6 days) War IIon Alabamians.Ex amples: entry of womeninto workforce, increasein job opportunities,rationing, utilizationof Alabama’s militaryinstallations• Recognizing Alabamaparticipants in World War IIEx amples: Tuskegee Airmen,women in the military• Locating military bases inAlabama
World War II
World War II, Economic impact, Social impact, TuskegeeAirmen, Rationing
# 14. Describe the social, political,and economic February (6 impact ofthe modern Civil RightsMovement on days) Alabama.• Identifying important peopleand events of the modern CivilRights MovementEx amples: people-MartinLuther King, Jr., GeorgeC. Wallace, Rosa Parks;- events-Montgomerybus boycott, Birminghamchurch bombing, Selma-to-Montgomery march• Identifying benefits of the1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 voting rights Act
Civil Rights Movement
Martin LutherKing Ch. 9 pp. 262Jr., Rosa Parks, 293 George C.Wallace
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# 15. Identify major world events that haveimpacted February (7 Alabama since 1950.Ex amples: Korean Conflict,Vietnam days) War, Persian GulfWar, War on Terrorism• Recognizing Alabamians who havemade significant contributions tosociety since 1950Ex amples: Aaron, Hugo Black, Paul“Bear” Bryant, Nat “King”Henry “Hank”Cole, Marva Collins,Jeremiah Denton, A. G.Gaston, Mae C. Jemison,Harper Lee, Willie Mays,Harold (Hal) Moore,Thomas Moorer, JesseOwens, Condoleezza Rice,Wernher von Braun, GeorgeC. Wallace, Lurleen B.Wallace, Hank Williams,Kathryn Tucker Windham# 15. Identify major world eventsthat have impacted Alabamasince 1950
Impact of Wars on Alabama
Korean Conflict, ch. 9,10,12 Vietnam War, pp.267; 301Persian Gulf War, 303;378 War onTerrorism
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