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Grade Pacing Guide Social Studies and Science 2015-2016 Quarter One

Bloom’s Taxonomy Abbreviations

R= Remember, U= Understand, Ap= Apply, An=Analyze, E=Evaluate, C=Create

Time/Dates/ SOL/Strand Objective/Content/Essential Vertical Alignment Vocabulary Cross-curricular

Testing Questions/ Cognitive Level Connections

Windows

V.S. 1 Historical and Geographical Analysis Identify Primary and secondary Reader’s Theatre

Ongoing a. Identify and interpret artifacts and Interpret sources ongoing

Skills Past and present

primary and secondary

Sequence

source documents - R

Cause and effect 4.1 LA Contribute

b. Cause and effect relationships - U

Compare and contrast to oral

c. Compare and contrast historical Draw conclusions discussions

events - An Generalizations

Historical perspectives

d. Draw conclusions and make

Evaluate

generalizations - An

analyze

e. Make connections between past and

present - An

f. Sequence events in VA history - An

g. Interpret ideas and events from

different perspectives - Ap

h. Evaluate and discuss issues – E, U

i. Analyze and interpret maps - An

V.S.2

August 19- The physical

September geography

and Native

22nd

Peoples

24 days

Benchmarks

8/26-9/12

Geography

a. Locate VA and its bordering states

on maps of the US - U b. Locating and describing Virginia’s

Coastal Plain - U (Tidewater),Piedmont, Blue Ridge Mountains, Valley and Ridge, and Appalachian Plateau

c. Locating and identifying water features important to the early history of VA (Atlantic Ocean, Chesapeake Bay, James River, York River, Potomac River, Rappahannock River and Lake Drummond, and Dismal Swamp) - U

d. Locating 3 American Indian language groups (Algonquian, Siouan, and the Iroquoian) on a map of Virginia - U

e. Describing how American Indians related to the climate and their environment to secure food, clothing, and shelter - R

f. Describing how archeologists have recovered new material evidence at sites including Werowocomoco and Jamestown - R

g. Identifying and locating the current

state recognized tribes - R

American Indians North, South, East, and West Latitude & longitude Map skills Seasons Climate

Landforms

Water features

Climate

Environment

Culture Geographical terms

Relative location, bordering, near, next to, Maryland, West VA, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Atlantic Coastal Plain (Tidewater), Fall Line, Piedmont, Blue Ridge Mountains, Valley and Ridge, Appalachian Plateau, Atlantic Ocean, Eastern Shore, Chesapeake Bay, James River, York River, Potomac River, Rappahannock River, Lake Drummond, Dismal Swamp, Christopher Columbus, George Washington Eastern Woodland Indians Algonquian (Powhatan) Tidewater Region Siouan Piedmont Region Iroquoian SW and Southern VA Artifacts Archeologist Werowocomoco Tidewater: Chickahominy Eastern Chickahominy Mattaponi Upper Mattaponi Nansemond Pamunkey Rappahannock Piedmont: Monacan Revised Jan 13 Tested 2015

Reader’s Theatre

ongoing

4.1 LA

Contribute to oral discussions

4.7 b LA Travel

Brochure

4.9

Natural

resources human made

watershed

mineral

resources

coal

Science 4.9 The student will investigate and understand important Virginia natural resources. Key concepts include

a) watersheds and water resources; b) animals and plants; c) minerals, rocks, ores, and energy sources; and d) forests, soil, and land.

Cheroenhaka (Nottoway) Nottoway Tribe Patawomeck

limestone granite,

sand,and gravel

natural/culitivated

forests

V.S.3

Colonization

& Conflict

1607

through the

Amer. Revolution

The student will demonstrate knowledge of the first permanent English settlement in America by

a. explaining the reasons for

English colonization - U b. describing how geography influenced

the decision to settle at Jamestown - U

c. identifying the importance of the charters of the VA Co. of London in establishing the Jamestown settlement - R

d. identifying the importance of the General Assembly (1619) as the first representative legislative body in English America - R

e. identifying the importance of the arrival of Africans and English women to the Jamestown settlement - R

f. describing the hardships faced by settlers at Jamestown and the changes that took place to ensure survival - R

g. describing the interactions between the English settlers and the native peoples, including the contributions of Powhatan to

the survival of the settlers - R

Map skills England, charters Native groups Economic venture Settlement VA Co. of London Peninsula Stockholders, John Colonization Smith Colonies Starving time Culture Disease, marsh Interaction between Self-sustaining cultures agriculture Artifacts VA Assembly (1619) Primary and Secondary Burgesses Source Documents Governor’s Council Powhatans Governor Government 1620-the arrival of Africans women (“Bride Ship”) Adaptations Indentured Servant Native Americans Slave Tobacco, John Rolfe, Pocahontas, Chief Powhatan Virginia House of Burgesses legislative, English rights Portugal, Angola

“A Lion to Guard Us”

By Clyde Robert Bulla (LA)

Settler Journaling (LA)

Scientific

Investigation, Ongoing Reasoning, and

Logic

4.1 Student will demonstrate an categorize observation

understanding of scientific cause and effect variables

reasoning, logic, and the (if / then) constants,

nature of science by planning graph independent

and conducting investigations natural events and

in which chronological dependent

a) distinctions are made among temperature variables

observations, conclusions, degrees prediction

inferences, and predictions; - centigrade hypothesis,

An thermometer (plausible)

b) objects or events are classified volume inference

and arranged according to liter / milliliter conclusion

characteristics or properties; - graduated cylinder, analyze

An beaker classify

c) appropriate instruments are length/centimeter kilometers,

selected and used to measure ruler/ meter stick meters,

length, mass, volume, and mass/gram/balance centimeters,

temperature in metric units; - graphs (picture, millimeters

Ap bar, line) liter, milliliter

d) appropriate instruments are models kilograms,

selected and used to measure grams

elapsed time; - Ap characteristics/

e) predictions and inferences are properties,

made, and conclusions are elapsed time

drawn based on data from a (math 4.9),

variety of sources; - An data (including

f) independent and dependent contradictory or

variables are identified; - R unusual data)

g) constants in an experimental

situation are identified; - R

h) hypotheses are developed as

cause and effect relationships;

- C

i) data are collected, recorded,

analyzed, and displayed using

bar and basic line graphs; - E

j) numerical data that are

contradictory or unusual in

experimental results are

recognized; - R

k) data are communicated with

simple graphs, pictures,

written statements, and

numbers; -E

l) models are constructed to

clarify explanations,

demonstrate relationships,

and solve needs; and - C

m) current applications are used

to reinforce science concepts.

– Ap

September Earth 4.7 The student will investigate Scientific method 8 planets Acrostic Poetry

23-October Patterns, and understand the (4.1) Mercury

9 Cycles, and organization of the solar Venus Planet Glossary

14 days Changes system. Key concepts include Earth and Book 4.4 C

(LA)

a) the planets in the solar Mars

system; - U Jupiter Planet description

b) the order of the planets in the Saturn

4.8. f (LA)

solar system; and – R, U Uranus

c) the relative sizes of the Neptune

planets. - An

October 12-

Review and Remediate

16 End of 1

st

Quarter MAP Testing 10/12-10/23

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Time/Dates/ SOL/Strand Objective/Content/Essential Vertical Alignment Vocabulary Cross-

Testing Questions/ Cognitive Level curricular

Windows Connections

October 19- Earth Patterns, 4.8 The student will Investigate scientific method satellite Acrostic Poetry

November 6 Cycles, and the relationship between (4.1) revolution

Change the Earth, Moon, and Sun moon phases rotation Planet Glossary

13 days a. Revolution and rotation - An seasons axis/axial tilt and Book 4.4 C

(LA)

b. Earth seasons/Moon phases day, month, year diameter

- An mile/kilometer waxing Planet

c. Size, position, age, and Fahrenheit/centigrade waning

description 4.8.

makeup of the Earth, Moon, gibbous

f (LA)

and Sun - An

crescent

d. Historical contributions - An solar eclipse

lunar eclipse

orbit

gravity

atmosphere

ellipse

Aristotle

Ptolemy

(earth centered)

Copernicus

Galileo

(sun centered)

terrestrial

NASA/Apollo

November Colonization V.S. 4 Geography Plantations, cash crop, Content

9- 24 & Conflict The student will demonstrate Agriculture Economy, immigrants Vocabulary 4.4

1607 knowledge of life in the Virginia colony Tobacco Cultural landscape, adapt

12 days

e. (LA)

through the by Labor Germans, Scots-Irish

Amer. a. explaining the importance of Institution of Slavery (Shenandoah Valley), place

Revolution Wealth

names, Roanoke,

agriculture and its influence on Graphic

Beliefs

Richmond

the institution of slavery - U

organizers

Customs Capital

b. describing how the culture of

4.8 c. (LA)

Architecture Money (not commonly

colonial VA reflected the origins Migration used),

of European (English, Scots-Irish, Barter, Credit, Debt, Science-

German) immigrants, Africans,

Saving

Migration 4.5

and American Indians - U

c. explaining the reasons for the a

relocation of VA’s capital from

Jamestown to Williamsburg to

Richmond - U

d. describing how money, barter, and

credit were used - R

e. describing everyday life in

colonial VA - R

November 30th

Colonization V.S. 5 Economics Legal authority (England’s 4.5 J and G

December

11th

and Conflict: The student will demonstrate Indentured Servants Parliament vs. the colonies)

cause and

1607 knowledge of the role of Virginia in the Slaves Tax, Stamp Act

10 days

effect (LA)

through the American Revolution by Labor Taxation without

Amer. Rev. a. identifying the reasons why the Trade representation

colonists went to war with Great Britain, English Parliament Independence Journaling

as expressed in the Declaration of Declaration of Declaration of Ind.

Independence. - R Independence Liberty, Life, Liberty,

b. identifying the various roles played George Washington Pursuit of Happiness

Thomas Jefferson

patriots, loyalists,

by whites, enslaved

Parliament

neutral, George

African Americans, free African

Taxes

Washington,

Americans, and American Indians

Liberty

Thomas Jefferson, Jack

in the Revolutionary War era, including

Patriots

Jouett,

George Washington,

Enslaved Labor

James Lafayette, Patrick

Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, and

Henry

James Lafayette - R

Continental Army

c. identifying the importance of the Battle of Great Bridge

Yorktown (Lord Cornwallis)

Battle of Great Bridge, the

Lord Cornwallis

ride of Jack Jouett, and the American

Treaty

victory at Yorktown - R

December Interrelationships 4.6 The student will investigate scientific method weather patterns Cloudy With a

14-22 in Earth/Space and understand how (4.1) weather maps Chance of

7 days

End of 2nd

Quarter Systems weather conditions and centigrade barometer/air Meatballs

phenomena occur and can Fahrenheit pressure Pickles To

be predicted. Key concepts water cycle anemometer/wind

Pittsburgh

include precipitation speed

a) weather phenomena; - U scientific method rain gauge/ Math 4.13

b) weather measurements and atmosphere

precipitation

Probability/

meteorological tools; and

troposphere

thermometer/

4.14 Graphing

- U

meteorology

temperature

c) use of weather high/low air atmosphere Singular

measurements and weather

pressure

troposphere

Possessives 4.8

phenomena to make

water cycle

meteorology

H (LA)

weather predictions. - U

precipitation

meteorologist

high/low Fact and

pressure Opinion 4.6 h

thermal energy (LA)

warm/cold

front

humidity

rain, snow, sleet,

hail

cirrus, cumulus,

stratus,

cumulonimbus

thunderstorm,

hurricane,

tornado

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Time/Dates/ SOL/Strand Objective/Content/Essential Vertical Alignment Vocabulary Cross-

Testing Questions/ Cognitive Level curricular

Windows Connections

Continued Interrelationships 4.6 The student will investigate scientific method weather patterns Cloudy With a

January 5-13 in Earth/Space and understand how (4.1) weather maps Chance of

7 days Systems weather conditions and centigrade barometer/air Meatballs

phenomena occur and can Fahrenheit pressure Pickles To

be predicted. Key concepts water cycle anemometer/wind

Pittsburgh

include precipitation speed

a) weather phenomena; - U scientific method rain gauge/ Math 4.13

b) weather measurements and atmosphere precipitation

Probability/

meteorological tools; and

troposphere

thermometer/

4.14 Graphing

- U

meteorology

temperature

c) use of weather high/low air atmosphere Singular

measurements and weather

pressure

troposphere

Possessives 4.8

phenomena to make

water cycle

meteorology

H (LA)

weather predictions. - U

precipitation

meteorologist

high/low Fact and

pressure Opinion 4.6 h

thermal energy (LA)

warm/cold

front

humidity

rain, snow, sleet,

hail

cirrus, cumulus,

stratus,

cumulonimbus

thunderstorm,

hurricane,

tornado

January Force, Motion, 4.2 The student will investigate Scientific method kinetic energy

14-26 and Energy and understand (4.1) potential energy

8 days characteristics and potential energy speed

interactions of moving simple/compound position

objects. Key concepts machines force

include sources of energy friction

a) motion is described by an resistance

object’s direction and

speed; - U

b) changes in motion are

related to force and mass;

-U

c) friction is a force that

opposes motion; and - U

d) moving objects have kinetic

energy. - U

January 27- Political V.S. 6 The student will demonstrate Government Constitutional Convention Science-

Febraury 10 Growth and knowledge of the role of Virginia in the Thomas Compromise migration 4.5

Western establishment of the new American Jefferson(entrepreneurial) Constitution of the United

10 days

a. Science

Expansion: nation by Declaration of States of America

1781 to the a. Explaining why George Independence James Madison

mid 1800s

George Washington

George Mason

Washington is called the “Father of

Freedom of religion

Our Country” and James Madison is

Freedom of the press

called the “Father of the

Frontier

Constitution.” - U

Appalachian Mountains

b. Identify the ideas of George

Cumberland Gap

Mason and Thomas

Jefferson as expressed in the VA

Declaration of Rights and the

VA Statute for Religious Freedom - R

c. Explaining the influence of

geography on the migration of

Virginians into western territories - U

February 11- Civil War and V.S. 7 The student will demonstrate Underground Railroad Nat Turner, Harriet Cause and

March 7 Postwar eras knowledge of the issues that divided Richmond Tubman, effect 4.6 g

our Slave labor John Brown, Abraham

15 days

(LA)

nation and led to the Civil War by Lincoln,

a. identifying the events and Gen. Robert E. Lee,

Stonewall

differences between northern and Research 4.9

Jackson, Gen. Ulysses S.

southern states that divided Virginians

(LA)

Grant, secession, Harper’s

and led to secession, war,

Ferry, US Armory (Arsenal),

and the creation of West VA - R

West Virginia, Battle of Bull Nonfiction test

b. describing VA’s role in the war,

Run (Manassas), features 4.6 a

including identifying major

Fredericksburg, rebellion,

(LA)

battles that took place in VA - R southern/agricultural,

c. describing the roles played by northern/industrial,

whites, enslaved African ironclad

ships, Monitor/Union,

Americans, free African Americans, and

Merrimack/Confederate,

American Indians - R

Appomattox Courthouse

March Review and Remediate

8-11

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Civil War and V.S. 8 The student will demonstrate Economy, tobacco, Reconstruction

March Postwar eras knowledge of the reconstruction of VA railroads, Freedmen’s Bureau, Jim

following the Civil War by industry, manufacturing Crow, sharecropping,

14-18

Persuasive

a. identifying the effects of segregation/

5 days

desegregation, posters

Reconstruction on life in VA - R

discrimination, prejudice

b. identifying the effects of

Tazewell, coal Patterns of

segregation and “Jim Crow” on

life in VA for whites, African Americans, organization

and American Indians - R 4.7 e (LA)

c. describing the importance of

railroads, new industries, and Audience

the growth of cities to VA’s economic awareness 4.7

development - R

a (LA)

March 21- April 8

10 days

MAP Testing

Virginia 1900 V. S. 9 The student will demonstrate Governor to the knowledge of twentieth- and twenty-first laws Present century VA by

a. describing the economic and social

transition from a rural, agricultural society to a more urban,

industrialized society,

including reasons people came to VA

from other states and

countries - R

b. identifying the impact of Virginians,

such as Woodrow Wilson and George C. Marshall on

international events - R

c. identifying the social and political

events in VA linked to desegregation and Massive Resistance

and their relationship

to national history - R

d. identifying the political, social,

and/or economic contributions made by Maggie L. Walker,

Harry F. Byrd, Sr.,

Oliver W. Hill, Arthur R. Ashe, Jr., A.

Linwood Holton, Jr., and

L. Douglas Wilder - R

Rural/urban, Raw materials/finished products Agricultural products Manufactured products Industries Woodrow Wilson, George C. Marshall, Harry F. Byrd, Maggie L. Walker, Oliver W. Hill, Arthur R. Ashe Jr. A. Linwood Holton Jr., Civil Rights Movement, Massive Resistance, integration, Brown vs Board of Education, separate but Equal

Persuasive

posters

Patterns of organization

4.7 e (LA)

Audience awareness 4.7

a (LA)

April 11-15

5 days

V.S. 10 The student will demonstrate knowledge of government, geography, and economics by

a. identifying the three branches of VA government and the function of each - R

b. describing the major products and industries of VA’s five geographic regions - R

c. explaining how advances in transportation, communications, and technology have contributed - U

Constitution Economics, Atlantic Coastal Plain (Tidewater), Piedmont, Blue Ridge Mtns., Valley and Ridge, Appalachian Plateau Raw materials/finished products, goods and services

Branches of government Legislative–the General Assembly Senate House of Delegates Executive-Governor Judicial-Court System Coastal Plain – Products: seafood, peanuts Industries: shipbuilding, tourism, military bases Piedmont- Products: tobacco products, information technology

The products of Virginia’s 5 regions addressed in 1st

nine weeks with geography.

Industries: federal and state government, farming, horse industry Blue Ridge Mtns.-Products: apples Industries: recreation, farming Valley and Ridge-Products: poultry, apples, dairy, beef Industries: farming Appalachian Plateau-Products: coal Industries: coal mining Exports

April 18-22 Force, Motion, 4.3 The student will investigate Scientific method atoms

and Energy and understand the (4.1) electrons

5 days characteristics of electricity. solar energy circuits

Non-SOL

Key concepts include fossil fuels conductor

a) conductors and insulators; - U a) conductors and insulator

Tested

b) basic circuits (open/

insulators; resistance

Benchmarks closed, parallel/series); - U

b) basic circuits;

path

c) static electricity; - U

4/20-4/24

d) the ability of electrical en c) static electricity; series circuit

ergy to be transformed into heat

d) the ability of parallel circuit

, light, and mechanical energy; - U

electrical energy

open circuit

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to be transformed closed circuit

into light and source

e) simple electromagnets and motion, and to switch

magnetism; and - U produce heat; magnetic field

f) historical contributions - U

e) simple

electromagnet

in understanding electricity - U

electromagnets permanent

and magnetism; magnet

and static electricity

f) historical current electricity

contributions in attract/repel

understanding poles

electricity. generate

wet cell battery

dry cell battery

(symbols – and

+)

thermal

radiant

mechanical

Ben Franklin

Thomas Edison

Michael Faraday

April 25-

29

5 days

4.4 The student will investigate Scientific method roots

and understand basic plant (4.1) stems anatomy and life processes. seasons leaves

Key concepts include natural resources flowers

a) the structures of typical soil stamen

plants and the function of nutrients stigma

each structure; - U pistil b) processes and structures sepal involved with plant embryo

reproduction; - U ferns

c) photosynthesis; and - U mosses

d) adaptations allow plants to spore

satisfy life needs and seed

respond to the environment. pollination

-U sunlight chlorophyll water carbon dioxide

oxygen

sugar photosynthesis

dormancy

response to

light/moisture

The student will investigate and Scientific method sources of energy

understand how plants and (4.1) niche,

animals, including humans, seasons habitat,

in an ecosystem interact natural resources community

with one another and with Life cycle environment,

the nonliving components in behavioral ecosystem

the ecosystem. Key concepts adaptations- populations

include animals sounds

a) plant and animal what they do

adaptations; - U structural and

b) organization of populations, physical

communities, and adaptations

ecosystems and how they

interrelate; - U food chain/web

c) flow of energy through food herbivore,

webs; - U carnivore,

d) habitats and niches; - U omnivore

e) changes in an organism’s producer,

niche at various stages in its consumer,

life cycle; and - U decomposer

f) influences of human activity hibernation

on ecosystems. - U migration

camouflage

instinct

learned behavior

May 2-6 Review and Remediate

5 days

Non-

Writing

SOL’s

5/11-5/29

RESOURCES:

http://vastudies.pwnet.org/vs9/vs9_c.htm

http://star.spsk12.net/socialscience/ss_vs4.htm

http://doe.virginia.gov/testing/sol/scope_sequence/history_socialscience_

scope_sequence/2008/scopeseq_histsoc_va_studies.pdf

www.solpass.com

COMMON ASSESSMENTS:

MAP Assessment

IA assessments ( a variety of teacher created assessments are located

on interactive achievement website)

Unit Assessments- located in interactive achievement

Fourth Grade Science – Watersheds and Resources (Unit Test)

(Save our Water Rubric) *Found on GCPS teacher website

Student work and suggestions

Foldable activities

Flipbooks

Quarterly projects

Research activities

Hands on activities- students manipulating concrete objects

interactive notebooks

Starry Night –cd program

COMMON UNIT PLANS:

Fourth Grade Science – Watersheds and Resources (Unit Plan)

(Chesapeake Bay) (Extension and Enrichment) (Powerpoint)

*Found on GCPS teacher website