Curriculum Plan
Social Studies-WI
4th Grade
2019 – 2020
Resource: Studies Weekly
Note: The following is the key for “Teacher Time.”
B – below grade level
O – on grade level
A – above grade level
Week 1:
Inquiry Practices and Processes
SS.Inq1: Wisconsin students will construct meaningful questions that initiate an inquiry
Develop questions based on a topic
Plan inquiry
Studies Weekly – Week
| Background for Mini Lesson | Teacher Time | Learning Stations Ideas | Wrap Up |
| Develop list of open- and closed-ended questions on a topic or issue.
Develop list of questions that support the research through discussion and investigation to guide inquiry.
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Allow students to share out what they learned today. |
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Week 2:
Inquiry Practices and Processes
Standard SS.Inq2: Wisconsin students will gather and evaluate sources.
Gather diverse sources (electronic, digital, print, and other mass media) applicable to the inquiry
Evaluate sources
Studies Weekly – Week
| Background for Mini Lesson | Teacher Time | Learning Stations Ideas | Wrap Up |
| Gather a variety of resources into categories to guide the inquiry.
Evaluate resources to determine which best support the inquiry and supporting questions.
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Allow students to share out what they learned today. |
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Week 3:
Inquiry Practices and Processes
Standard SS.Inq3: Wisconsin students will develop claims using evidence to support reasoning.
Develop claims to answer inquiry question
Cite evidence from multiple sources to support claim
Elaborate how evidence supports claim
Studies Weekly – Week
| Background for Mini Lesson | Teacher Time | Learning Stations Ideas | Wrap Up |
| Create a thesis statement based on evidence found in sources to make a claim.
Select appropriate evidence from sources to support a claim.
Assess how evidence supports a claim. |
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Week 4:
Inquiry Practices and Processes
Standard SS.Inq4: Wisconsin students will communicate and critique conclusions.
Communicate conclusions
Critique conclusions
Studies Weekly – Week
| Background for Mini Lesson | Teacher Time | Learning Stations Ideas | Wrap Up |
| Communicate conclusions from a variety of teacher provided presentation options.
Evaluate the strength of claim, evidence, and communication using criteria established by both teacher and student.
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Allow students to share out what they learned today. |
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Week 5:
Inquiry Practices and Processes
Standard SS.Inq5: Wisconsin students will be civically engaged.
Civic engagement
Studies Weekly – Week
| Background for Mini Lesson | Teacher Time | Learning Stations Ideas | Wrap Up |
| Explore opportunities for personal or collaborative civic engagement with community, school, state, tribal, national, and/or global implications.
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Allow students to share out what they learned today. |
| Resource Books | Resource Links |
Week 6:
Review and Assess
| Background for Mini Lesson | Teacher Time | Learning Stations Ideas | Wrap Up |
| Through the use of class games, review inquiry practices & processes unit. | |||
| Assessment of inquiry practices & processes unit. | |||
Week 7:
Behavioral Sciences
Standard SS.BH1: Wisconsin students will examine individual cognition, perception, behavior, and identity (Psychology).
Individual cognition, perception, and behavior
Personal identity and empathy
Studies Weekly – Week
| Background for Mini Lesson | Teacher Time | Learning Stations Ideas | Wrap Up |
| Describe how a person’s understanding, perceptions, and behaviors are affected by relationships and environments.
Describe how culture, ethnicity, race, age, religion, gender, and social class can help form self-image and identity.
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Week 8:
Behavioral Sciences
Standard SS.BH2: Wisconsin students will investigate and interpret interactions between individuals and groups (Sociology).
Relationship of people and groups
Cultural patterns
Studies Weekly – Week
| Background for Mini Lesson | Teacher Time | Learning Stations Ideas | Wrap Up |
| Compare how people from different cultures solve common problems, such as distribution of food, shelter, and social interactions.
Give examples of how peoples from different cultures develop different values and ways of interpreting experiences.
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Week 9:
Behavioral Sciences
Standard SS.BH3: Wisconsin students will assess the role that human behavior and cultures play in the development of social endeavors (Anthropology).
Social Interactions
Studies Weekly – Week
| Background for Mini Lesson | Teacher Time | Learning Stations Ideas | Wrap Up |
| Investigate how interpretations of similarities and differences between and among cultures may lead to understandings or misunderstandings.
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Week 10:
Behavioral Sciences
Standard SS.BH4: Wisconsin students will examine the progression of specific forms of technology and their influence within various societies.
Progression of technology
Studies Weekly – Week
| Background for Mini Lesson | Teacher Time | Learning Stations Ideas | Wrap Up |
| Classify technologies based on intended use, access, and design, and how they might change people’s li
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Week 11:
Review and Assess
| Background for Mini Lesson | Teacher Time | Learning Stations Ideas | Wrap Up |
| Through the use of class games, review inquiry practices & processes unit an behavioral sciences units. | |||
| Assessment of inquiry practices & processes unit an behavioral sciences units. | |||
Week 12:
Geography
Standard SS.Geog1: Wisconsin students will use geographic tools and ways of thinking to analyze the world.
Tools of Geography
Spatial Thinking (map interpretation)
Studies Weekly – Week
| Background for Mini Lesson | Teacher Time | Learning Stations Ideas | Wrap Up |
| Summarize how location (absolute and relative) affects people, places, and environment. Construct maps (paper or digital), charts, and graphs using appropriate elements (i.e., date, orientation, grid, scale, title, author, index, legend, situation)
Identify purposes of and differences among maps, globes, aerial photographs, charts, and satellite images |
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Week 13:
Geography
Standard SS.Geog1: Wisconsin students will use geographic tools and ways of thinking to analyze the world.
Mental Mapping/Maps from Memory
Studies Weekly – Week
| Background for Mini Lesson | Teacher Time | Learning Stations Ideas | Wrap Up |
| Create and label a map (paper or digital) of the local community, state, tribal lands, and country, including both physical (e.g., oceans and continents) and human (e.g., roads, buildings) characteristics. Identify and construct regions (digital or paper) in Wisconsin and the United States. | B:
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Week 14:
Geography
Standard SS.Geog2: Wisconsin students will analyze human movement and population patterns.
Population and Place
Reasons People Move
Studies Weekly – Week
| Background for Mini Lesson | Teacher Time | Learning Stations Ideas | Wrap Up |
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Week 15:
Geography
Standard SS.Geog2: Wisconsin students will analyze human movement and population patterns.
Impact of Movement
Urbanization
Studies Weekly – Week
| Background for Mini Lesson | Teacher Time | Learning Stations Ideas | Wrap Up |
| Describe population changes in their state, and country over time.
Summarize positive and negative factors of cities. Identify the location and patterns of cities within our state and country.
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Week 16:
Geography
Standard SS.Geog3: Wisconsin students will examine the impacts of global interconnections and relationships.
Distribution of Resources
Networks
Studies Weekly – Week
| Background for Mini Lesson | Teacher Time | Learning Stations Ideas | Wrap Up |
| Classify a provided set of resources as renewable or nonrenewable, and analyze the implications of both at the local, national, and global level.
Classify various ways that people and countries depend on one another. Summarize how transportation and communication have changed economic activities over time.
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Week 17:
Geography
Standard SS.Geog4: Wisconsin students will evaluate the relationship between identity and place.
Characteristics of Place
Studies Weekly – Week
| Background for Mini Lesson | Teacher Time | Learning Stations Ideas | Wrap Up |
| Describe how certain places may have meanings that distinguish them from other places (e.g., cemetery, places of worship, state/national parks, historical park/battlefield).
Compare and contrast the human characteristics of rural, suburban, urban, and tribal locations in Wisconsin and the United States. Identify and describe how people may view places in the community differently (e.g., students and senior citizens responding to a new playground).
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Week 18:
Geography
Standard SS.Geog5: Wisconsin students will evaluate the relationship between humans and the environment.
Human Environment Interaction
Interdependence
Studies Weekly – Week
| Background for Mini Lesson | Teacher Time | Learning Stations Ideas | Wrap Up |
| Compare the positive and negative effects of human actions on our physical environment (e.g., availability of water, fertility of soils) over time
Examine how human actions modify the physical environment when using natural resources (renewable and nonrenewable).
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Week 19:
Review and Assess
| Background for Mini Lesson | Teacher Time | Learning Stations Ideas | Wrap Up |
| Through the use of class games, review inquiry practices & processes, behavioral sciences and geography units. | |||
| Assessment of inquiry practices & processes, behavioral sciences and geography units. | |||
Week 20:
History
Standard SS.Hist1: Wisconsin students will use historical evidence for determining cause and effect.
Cause
Effect
Studies Weekly – Week
| Background for Mini Lesson | Teacher Time | Learning Stations Ideas | Wrap Up |
| Use evidence to draw conclusions about probable causes of historical events, issues, and problems.
Use evidence to draw conclusions about probable effects of historical events, issues, and problems.
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Week 21:
History
Standard SS.Hist2: Wisconsin students will analyze, recognize, and evaluate patterns of continuity and change over time and contextualization of historical events.
Patterns stay the same over a period of time
Patterns change over a period of time
Contextualization
Studies Weekly – Week
| Background for Mini Lesson | Teacher Time | Learning Stations Ideas | Wrap Up |
| Describe patterns of continuity over time in the community, state, and the United States.
Describe patterns of change over time in the community, state, and the United States.
Analyze individuals, groups, and events to understand why their contributions are important to historical change and/or continuity
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Week 22:
History
Standard SS.Hist3: Wisconsin students will connect past events, people, and ideas to the present; use different perspectives to draw conclusions; and suggest current implications.
Connections
Perspective
Current Implications
Studies Weekly – Week
| Background for Mini Lesson | Teacher Time | Learning Stations Ideas | Wrap Up |
| Compare events in Wisconsin history to a current issue or event.
Identify different historical perspectives regarding people and events in the past.
Explain how historical events have possible implications on the present. |
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Week 23:
Review and Assess
| Background for Mini Lesson | Teacher Time | Learning Stations Ideas | Wrap Up |
| Through the use of class games, review inquiry practices & processes, behavioral sciences, geography and history units. | |||
| Assessment of inquiry practices & processes, behavioral sciences, geography and history units. | |||
Week 24:
Political Science
Standard SS.PS1: Wisconsin students will identify and analyze democratic principles and ideals.
Values & Principles of American Constitutional Democracy
Origins & Foundation of the Government of the United States
Studies Weekly – Week
| Background for Mini Lesson | Teacher Time | Learning Stations Ideas | Wrap Up |
| Differentiate between majority rule and minority rights (as a function of a democratic republic). Hypothesize why laws and constitutions exist.
Summarize the contributions of historically significant people during the period of early United States history to the development of our political culture. Differentiate between freedom, justice, equality, rights, responsibilities, and citizenship. Apply key elements of the Wisconsin Constitution to the local community. |
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Week 25:
Political Science
Standard SS.PS2: Wisconsin students will examine and interpret rights, privileges, and responsibilities in society.
Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Fundamentals of Citizenship
Asserting and Reaffirming of Human Rights
Studies Weekly – Week
| Background for Mini Lesson | Teacher Time | Learning Stations Ideas | Wrap Up |
| Investigate examples of rights and responsibilities, including the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which individuals possess within the state, country, and world.
Summarize the actions of people and groups that have advanced civil rights for individuals.
Identify and describe basic human liberties (i.e., thought, expression, privacy).
Compare and contrast being a citizen of a country to the principles of good citizenship.
Describe the process by which people in the United States become legal citizens (i.e., natural born or naturalization)
Critique instances where groups have been denied access to power and rights, and any law or customs that have altered these instances. Summarize how people (e.g., religious groups, civil rights groups, workers, neighborhood residents) organize to gain a greater voice to impact and change their communities.
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Week 26:
Political Science
Standard SS.PS3: Wisconsin students will analyze and evaluate the powers and processes of political and civic Wisconsin Standards for Social Studies 39 institutions.
Political Participation
Linkage Institutions
Studies Weekly – Week
| Background for Mini Lesson | Teacher Time | Learning Stations Ideas | Wrap Up |
| Investigate reasons why citizens participate in elections.
Identify their role in government at the local, state, tribal, and federal levels.
Provide examples of how various types of media are used in elections and government.
Compare and contrast the multiple roles people play in elections.
Analyze the roles civic institutions play in their lives, their community and beyond (e.g., schools, community groups, religious institutions).
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Week 27:
Political Science
Standard SS.PS3: Wisconsin students will analyze and evaluate the powers and processes of political and civic Wisconsin institutions.
Power in Government
Studies Weekly – Week
| Background for Mini Lesson | Teacher Time | Learning Stations Ideas | Wrap Up |
| Classify the basic structures and functions of governments and summarize basic powers of the government at the local, state, tribal, and federal levels.
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Week 28:
Political Science
Standard SS.PS3: Wisconsin students will analyze and evaluate the powers and processes of political and civic Wisconsin institutions.
Public Policy
Studies Weekly – Week
| Background for Mini Lesson | Teacher Time | Learning Stations Ideas | Wrap Up |
| Provide examples of how different governments solve problems.
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Week 29:
Review and Assess
| Background for Mini Lesson | Teacher Time | Learning Stations Ideas | Wrap Up |
| Through the use of class games, review inquiry practices & processes, behavioral sciences, geography, history and political science units. | |||
| Assessment of inquiry practices & processes, behavioral sciences, geography, history and political science units. | |||
Week 30:
Economics
Standard SS.Econ1: Wisconsin students use economic reasoning to understand issues.
Choices and Decision -Making
Incentives
Studies Weekly – Week
| Background for Mini Lesson | Teacher Time | Learning Stations Ideas | Wrap Up |
| Use economic reasoning to compare and contrast the costs and benefits of a decision. Categorize different limited resources (e.g., money, materials, time, labor/workers, land, natural resources, renewable or nonrenewable).
Infer potential incentives in a real-world situation.
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Week 31:
Economics
Standard SS.Econ2: Wisconsin students will analyze how decisions are made and interactions occur among individuals, households, and firms/businesses (Microeconomics).
Consumers, Producers, and Markets
Supply, Demand, and Competition
Firm/Business Behavior and Costs of Production
Studies Weekly – Week
| Background for Mini Lesson | Teacher Time | Learning Stations Ideas | Wrap Up |
| Compare two product markets found in the local community. Differentiate between goods and services.
Assess the roles of consumers (demand), producers (supply), prices, non-price factors (e.g., drought or a fad item), and competition in the product market.
Compare the skills and knowledge required to produce certain goods and services.
Provide an example of the factors of production (i.e., land, labor, capital, entrepreneurship) for a given product.
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Week 32:
Economics
Standard SS.Econ3: Wisconsin students will analyze how an economy functions as a whole (Macroeconomics)
Economic Indicators
Money
Studies Weekly – Week
| Background for Mini Lesson | Teacher Time | Learning Stations Ideas | Wrap Up |
| Investigate how the cost of things changes over time.
Describe the role of money, banking, and savings in everyday life, including why people borrow money and the role of interest.
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Week 33:
Economics
Standard SS.Econ4: Wisconsin students will evaluate government decisions and their impact on individuals, businesses, markets, and resources (Role of Government).
Economic Systems and Allocation of Resources
Institutions
Studies Weekly – Week
| Background for Mini Lesson | Teacher Time | Learning Stations Ideas | Wrap Up |
| Trace the chain of supply for a needed product (e.g., food, shelter).
Assess the role of economic institutions (e.g., banks, government) in helping individuals and society. Differentiate between private property (e.g., factories and homes) and public property (e.g., parks, public schools, and government buildings).
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Week 34:
Economics
Standard SS.Econ4: Wisconsin students will evaluate government decisions and their impact on individuals, businesses, markets, and resources (Role of Government).
Role of Government
Impact of Government Interventions
Specialization, Trade, and Interdependence
Studies Weekly – Week
| Background for Mini Lesson | Teacher Time | Learning Stations Ideas | Wrap Up |
| Discuss reasons a government taxes people.
Predict unintended costs and benefits (i.e., externalities) for a given current situation or event. Compare and contrast specialization in two or more regions (e.g., Midwest and Northeastern United States; United States and Japan; Europe and South America).
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Week 35:
Review and Assess
| Background for Mini Lesson | Teacher Time | Learning Stations Ideas | Wrap Up |
| Through the use of class games, review inquiry practices & processes, behavioral sciences, geography, history, political science and economic units. | |||
| Assessment of inquiry practices & processes, behavioral sciences, geography, history, political science and economic units. | |||
