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St. Fabian Social Studies K-8
Social Studies - Grade 3

Ancient Era (1000 BCE - 300 CE)

Greek Civilizations: Government/Describe
The learner will be able to describe the government of ancient Greece.
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Greek Civilizations
  
Greek Civilizations: Roles in Society
The learner will be able to describe the roles of men, women, and children in ancient Greece.
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Greek Civilizations
  
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Civics and Government

Government: Basic Description
The learner will be able to give a basic description of government.
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Government
  
Government: Accomplish Goals
The learner will be able to describe how government can accomplish goals that could not be achieved individually.
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Government
  
Law: Create/Groups
The learner will be able to identify groups of people who create laws.
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Law
  
Law: Enforce/Groups
The learner will be able to identify groups of people who enforce laws.
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Law
  
Law: Apply/Groups
The learner will be able to identify groups of people who apply laws.
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Law
  
Law: Disputes/Groups
The learner will be able to identify groups of people who handle disputes about laws.
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Law
  
Law: Purposes/Describe
The learner will be able to describe the purposes of laws.
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Law
  
Principles: Ideas/Values/Significance
The learner will be able to understand the significance of key ideas and values of American democracy.
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Democratic Principles
  
Citizenship: Rules/School/Write
The learner will be able to write a school rule that meets specific requirements, such as possible to follow, fair, understandable, and/or designed to protect individuals.
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Citizenship
  
Public Service: Leadership/Powers
The learner will be able to recognize the powers of a position of leadership.
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Public Service
  
Public Service: Leadership/Necessity
The learner will be able to explain why political leadership is a necessity in a democracy.
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Public Service
  
Public Service: Leadership Opportunities
The learner will be able to recognize opportunities for leadership in his/her school.
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Public Service
  
Public Service: Leadership/Value/School
The learner will be able to explain the value of leadership in his/her school.
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Public Service
  
Public Service: Opportunity/School
The learner will be able to recognize opportunities for public service in his/her school.
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Public Service
  
Public Service: Value/School
The learner will be able to explain the value of public service in his/her school.
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Public Service
  
Public Service: Leadership Opportunities
The learner will be able to recognize opportunities for political leadership in his/her community.
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Public Service
  
Public Service: Leadership/Value
The learner will be able to explain the value of political leadership in his/her community.
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Public Service
  
Public Service: Opportunity/Community
The learner will be able to recognize opportunities for public service in his/her community.
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Public Service
  
Public Service: Value/Community
The learner will be able to explain the value of public service in his/her community.
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Public Service
  
Public Service: Leadership Opportunities
The learner will be able to recognize opportunities for political leadership in his/her state.
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Public Service
  
Public Service: Leadership/Value/State
The learner will be able to explain the value of political leadership in his/her state.
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Public Service
  
Types: Republican/Basics
The learner will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the basics of the republican form of government.
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Government: Types
  
Branches: Identify
The learner will be able to identify the three branches of government.
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Government: Branches
  
Local: Functions/Analyze
The learner will be able to analyze the functions of local government.
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Government: Local
  
Local: Individual Participation/Name
The learner will be able to name ways individuals can participate in local government.
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Government: Local
  
Local: Service Provided
The learner will be able to list important services provided by the local government.
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Government: Local
  
State: Laws/Capital City
The learner will be able to understand that state laws are passed in the capital city.
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Government: State
  
State: Governor
The learner will be able to understand that the person in charge of a state is called the Governor.
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Government: State
  
Federal: Presidential Elections
The learner will be able to identify the number of years between a Presidential election.
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Government: Federal
  
Federal: President
The learner will be able to distinguish between valid and invalid requirements for becoming President of the United States.
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Government: Federal
  
Rights/Responsibilities: Interaction
The learner will be able to describe the interaction between rights and responsibilities.
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Citizenship: Rights/Responsibilities
  
Rights: Conflicts/Resolution
The learner will be able to identify examples from history of conflicts about one's rights and how those conflicts were resolved.
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Citizenship: Rights/Responsibilities
  
Rights: Political/Recognize
The learner will be able to recognize political rights.
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Citizenship: Rights/Responsibilities
  
Rights: Personal/Recognize
The learner will be able to recognize personal rights.
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Citizenship: Rights/Responsibilities
  
Rights: Economic/Recognize
The learner will be able to recognize economic rights.
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Citizenship: Rights/Responsibilities
  
Responsibilities: Civic/Recognize
The learner will be able to recognize civic responsibilities.
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Citizenship: Rights/Responsibilities
  
Safety: Analyze
The learner will be able to analyze safety situations and procedures.
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Citizenship: Safety
  
Identity: Historical Document
The learner will be able to recognize an American identity of shared values, principles, and/or beliefs in historical documents.
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American Identity
  
Voluntarism: Examples/Name
The learner will be able to name examples of voluntarism.
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Voluntarism
  
Voluntarism: Common Good/Explain
The learner will be able to explain how voluntarism promotes the common good.
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Voluntarism
  
Necessity: Describe
The learner will be able to explain the basic necessity of government.
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Government: Necessity
  
Function: Society/Associate
The learner will be able to associate a government function with its effect on society.
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Government: Function
  
Function: Analyze
The learner will be able to analyze the functions of government.
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Government: Function
  
Function: Purposes/Describe
The learner will be able to describe the basic purposes of government in the United States.
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Government: Function
  
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Cultural Perspective

Community: Interpersonal Relationships
The learner will be able to understand the dynamics of interpersonal relationships.
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Community
  
Family: Live/Work/Understand
The learner will be able to understand how families live and work together, both in present and past times.
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Community: Family
  
Family: Different Places
The learner will be able to understand how families differ in various places of the world.
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Community: Family
  
Past: Live/Work/Understand
The learner will be able to understand how communities in the past lived and worked together.
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Community: Past
  
Folklore: Heroes
The learner will be able to identify folk heroes that are a part of U.S. cultural history.
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Folklore
  
Holidays: Significance/World
The learner will be able to understand the significance of holidays in countries around the world.
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Holidays
  
Community: Draw Conclusion/Picture
The learner will be able to use a picture to draw conclusions.
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Community
  
Community: Housing/Similarities
The learner will be able to identify similarities in different forms of housing.
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Community
  
Community: Draw Conclusion/Information
The learner will be able to use information about a person and his/her community to draw conclusions.
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Community
  
Culture: Define
The learner will be able to define culture.
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Culture
  
Culture: Way of Life
The learner will be able to make inferences about a culture's way of life.
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Culture
  
Culture: Change/Reasons
The learner will be able to list possible reasons for cultural change.
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Culture
  
Culture: Shared Elements
The learner will be able to examine how people share elements of their culture with others.
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Culture
  
Literature: Biography
The learner will be able to identify the main idea of a biographical passage.
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Economics

Goods/Services: Needs/Wants/Vary
The learner will be able to understand how needs and wants may vary in different places.
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Goods/Services
  
Services: Business
The learner will be able to associate a service with a type of business.
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Goods/Services
  
Goods/Services: Transportation
The learner will be able to associate methods of transportation with goods and/or services.
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Goods/Services
  
Goods/Services: Distribution
The learner will be able to explain how changes in modes of transportation and communication impact the distribution of goods and services.
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Goods/Services
  
Income: Earning Money
The learner will be able to identify methods for earning money.
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Income
  
Supply/Demand: Competition
The learner will be able to understand the cause and effect of competition.
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Supply/Demand
  
Economic Systems: Free Market/Begin
The learner will be able to begin to understand a free-market economic system.
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Economic Systems
  
Economics: Money/Spending
The learner will be able to recognize methods of spending money.
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Economics
  
Economics: Budget/Examine
The learner will be able to examine a simple budget.
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Economics
  
Economics: Decision Making
The learner will be able to explain how economic decision making is influenced by opportunity cost, scarcity, and price.
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Economics
  
Economics: Resources/Economic Growth
The learner will be able to understand the importance of human, natural, and capital resources to economic growth.
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Economics
  
Employment: Work/Understand
The learner will be able to show an understanding of the world of work.
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Employment
  
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Geography

Concepts: Topography/Introduce
The learner will be able to become familiar with the topography of his/her surroundings.
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Geographical Concepts
  
Concepts: Affect/Human Life
The learner will be able to describe how geography affects human life.
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Geographical Concepts
  
Concepts: Affect/Community Development
The learner will be able to describe how geography affects the development of communities.
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Geographical Concepts
  
Concepts: Terms/Place
The learner will be able to associate a geographical term (e.g. island) with a place (e.g., Hawaii).
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Geographical Concepts
  
Regions: Local Topography/Model
The learner will be able to construct a model of the topography of his/her local region.
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Regions
  
Regions: Classify
The learner will be able to classify various regions.
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Regions
  
Physical Resources: Renewable/Feature
The learner will be able to name the features of renewable physical resources.
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Physical Resources
  
Physical Resources: Nonrenewable/Feature
The learner will be able to name the features of nonrenewable physical resources.
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Physical Resources
  
Map: Symbols/Use/Locate
The learner will be able to use map symbols to locate places.
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Map/Globe Skills
  
Map: Neighborhood
The learner will be able to use a neighborhood map to find locations.
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Map/Globe Skills
  
Map: Land Use
The learner will be able to identify land use on a map.
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Map/Globe Skills
  
Map: Draw Conclusion
The learner will be able to use the information presented on a map to draw conclusions.
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Map/Globe Skills
  
Map: Grid
The learner will be able to read a basic grid map.
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Map/Globe Skills
  
US Geography: State
The learner will be able to identify specific states given a map of the United States.
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US Geography
  
Populations: Settlement/Factors
The learner will be able to identify factors that affect human settlement patterns.
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Populations
  
Human-Environment: Affect/Community
The learner will be able to describe how the environment affects the development of communities.
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Human-Environment Interaction
  
Human-Environment: Effect/Pictures
The learner will be able to identify a picture of how humans have altered the natural land.
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Human-Environment Interaction
  
Human-Environment: Adaptation
The learner will be able to analyze how people adapt to their environment.
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Human-Environment Interaction
  
Earth Attributes: Hemispheres
The learner will be able to identify the Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western hemispheres using the equator and prime meridian.
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Earth Attributes
  
Earth Attributes: Latitude/Longitude
The learner will be able to differentiate between the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude.
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Earth Attributes
  
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Historical Perspective

Time: Vocabulary/Use
The learner will be able to use vocabulary related to the chronology of time, including ancient, modern, and/or future time.
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Time
  
Time: BCE and CE
The learner will be able to understand the time periods associated with Before the Common Era (BCE) and the Common Era (CE).
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Time
  
Time: Calendar/Year/Decade/Century
The learner will be able to understand calendar time, including years, decades, and centuries.
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Time
  
Change: World/Time
The learner will be able to understand how world communities change over time.
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Change
  
Change: Historical Photographs
The learner will be able to observe change over time through studying historical photographs.
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Change
  
Awareness: Historians
The learner will be able to understand how historians learn about the past when there are no written records.
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Historical Awareness
  
Analysis: Main Idea/Pictures
The learner will be able to identify the main idea from a series of pictures.
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Historical Analysis
  
Analysis: Draw Conclusion/Pictures
The learner will be able to use pictures to draw conclusions about historical events or people.
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Historical Analysis
  
Analysis: Cause and Effect/Recognize
The learner will be able to recognize historical cause and effect relationships.
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Historical Analysis
  
Analysis: Events/Inferences
The learner will be able to use information presented in a chart to make inferences about historical events.
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Historical Analysis
  
Time: Timeline/Use and Organize
The learner will be able to use and organize information presented in a timeline.
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Time: Chronological Order
  
Data Interpretation: Bar Graph/Analyze
The learner will be able to analyze information presented on a bar graph.
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Data Interpretation
  
Data Interpretation: Table/Read
The learner will be able to read a table.
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Data Interpretation
  
Data Interpretation: Flow Chart
The learner will be able to understand the purpose of a flow chart.
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Data Interpretation
  
Data Interpretation: Chart/Read
The learner will be able to read a chart.
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Data Interpretation
  
Data Interpretation: Types
The learner will be able to identify different types of graphs, such as line graphs.
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Data Interpretation
  
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Technological Developments

Transportation: Sequence
The learner will be able to sequence modes of transportation in chronological order.
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Transportation
  
Transportation: Graphs
The learner will be able to draw conclusions about transportation from information presented in a graph.
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Transportation
  
Communication: Written/Origin
The learner will be able to comprehend the origin of written communication.
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Communication
  
Science: Achievements/Various
The learner will be able to identify significant scientific achievements of various historical societies.
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Math/Science
  
Technology: Sequence
The learner will be able to sequence technological developments.
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Technology
  
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United States History

State History: Settlers
The learner will be able to explain why early settlers came to his/her state.
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State History
  
State History: Influence/People
The learner will be able to recognize significant people that influenced the history of his/her state.
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State History
  
State History: Influence/Events
The learner will be able to recognize significant events that influenced the history of his/her state.
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State History
  
State History: Influence/Trends
The learner will be able to recognize significant trends that influenced the history of his/her state.
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State History
  
State History: Order of Events
The learner will be able to identify the order of events within his/her state history.
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State History
  
Figures: Introduce
The learner will be able to begin to understand the significance of historical figures, such as Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Susan B. Anthony.
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Historical Figures
  
Figures: Revolutionary Leaders
The learner will be able to understand the significance of revolutionary leaders, such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin.
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Historical Figures
  
Symbols: Monuments
The learner will be able to identify major American monuments, such as building and statues.
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Historical Symbols
  
Symbols: Flag/Stripes
The learner will be able to understand what the stripes on the American flag represent.
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Historical Symbols
  
Symbols: Patriotic/Understand
The learner will be able to understands the significance of historical symbols.
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Historical Symbols
  
Exploration: Discovery of America
The learner will be able to explain the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus and other European explorers.
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Exploration
  
Colonial America: Jamestown
The learner will be able to explain the settlement of Jamestown.
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Colonial America
  
American Indian: Daily Necessities
The learner will be able to explain how various American Indian nations obtained their daily necessities, such as food, clothing, and/or shelter.
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Indigenous People
  
Plains Native Americans: Housing
The learner will be able to understand the use of tepees by the Plains Native Americans.
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Indigenous People
  
American Indian: Customs/Describe
The learner will be able to describe the customs of various American Indian nations.
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Indigenous People
  
American Indians: Settlers/Affect
The learner will be able to determine the effect of new settlers on various American Indian nations.
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Indigenous People
  
Indigenous People: Environment/Explain
The learner will be able to explain how various indigenous groups adapted to their environments.
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Indigenous People
  
American Indian: Movement/Environment
The learner will be able to associate the movement of various American Indian nations with characteristics of the natural environment.
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Indigenous People
  
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