Third
Grade Social Studies Units of Study
Defining a Regional Community
Unit
Plan for Defining a Regional Community
Lesson
1 - What is a Community?
Lesson
2 - Locating and Describing Our Local Community
Lesson
3 - Drawing a Sketch Map of Our Local Community
Lesson
4 - What is a Regional Community?
Lesson
6 - What is a Metropolitan Area?
Lesson
7 - Oakland County and Metropolitan Detroit as Regional Communities
Lesson
8 - Generating Questions About Regional Communities
Lesson
9 - Identifying Informational Resources to Answer Questions About Regional
Communities
Lesson 10 - Using Informational Resources to Answer Questions About Regional Communities
Oakland
County
Unit
Plan for Oakland County
Lesson
2 - Exploring Oakland County History
Lesson
3 - Reconstructing the Past with Historical Markers
Lesson
4 - Creating a Timeline of Oakland County History
Lesson
5 - We Change to Fit Our Environment/We Change Our Environment to Fit Us
Lesson
6 - Resources in Oakland County
Lesson
7 - Economic Activities of Oakland County
Lesson
9 - The Government of Oakland County
Lesson
10 - Organizing Information to Make a Map of Oakland County
Lesson 1 - Natural Features of Oakland County
Metropolitan
Detroit
Unit
Plan for Metropolitan Detroit
Lesson
2 - Timeline of Detroit History
Lesson
3 - Multicultural Metropolitan Detroit
Lesson
4 - African Americans in Metropolitan Detroit
Lesson
5 - Describing Metropolitan Detroit
Lesson
6 - The Automobile Industry and Metropolitan Detroit
Lesson
7 - The Detroit River: Connecting Metropolitan Detroit to the World
Lesson
8 - Detroit and the Suburbs
Lesson
9 - Challenges for Metropolitan Detroit
Lesson
10 - Designing a Transportation System for Metropolitan Detroit
Lesson 1 - Introduction to Metropolitan Detroit
A Public
Issue From Our Region
Unit
Plan for A Public Issue From Our Region
Lesson
2 - What are the Responsibilities of a Citizen?
Lesson
3 - What are Public Issues?
Lesson
4 - What Are Some Public Issues in My Community?
Lesson
5 - Why Do People Disagree about Public Issues?
Lesson
6 - Exploring a Public Issue in Our Region
Lesson
7 - Discussing a Regional Public Policy Issue
Lesson
8 - Evaluating Possible Resolutions of a Regional Public Policy Issue
Lesson
9 - Composing an Essay on Regional Public Issue
Lesson
10 - Taking a Stand on a Regional Public Issue
Lesson
1 - Why Do We Need Government?
A Regional Community from Another Part of the U.S.
Unit
Plan for A Regional Community from Another Part of the United States
A Regional
Community
Unit
Plan for A Regional Community from Another Part of the World
Fourth Grade Social Studies Units of Study
The Geography of Michigan
Unit
Plan for The Geography of Michigan
Lesson
2 - Choose Me - Chamber of Commerce
Lesson
4 - Regions of Michigan
Lesson
6 - The Resource Connection
Lesson
7 - Moving Resources and Products
Lesson
8 - Native Americans in Michigan
Lesson
9 - Muslims in Michigan
Lesson
10 - Michigan Within the Great Lakes and Midwest Regions
The History
of Michigan
Unit
Plan for The History of Michigan
Michigan
Government
Unit
Plan for Michigan Government
Michigan in
the National and Global Economy
Unit
Plan for Michigan in the National and Global Economy
A Current
Public Issue Facing Michigan Citizens
Unit
Plan for A Current Public Issue Facing Michigan Citizens
Comparing
Michigan to Another State
Unit
Plan for Comparing Michigan to Another State
Comparing
Michigan to a State from Another Country
Unit
Plan for Comparing Michigan to a State from Another Country
Fifth Grade Social Studies Units of Study
The First Americans
Unit
Plan for The First Americans
Lesson
1 - Who Were the First Americans?
Lesson
2 - There's More to Shelter than the Walls
Lesson
3 - More Culture of Long Ago: Aztec and Maya
Lesson
4 - The Vikings - First Europeans in America
Lesson
5 - Christopher Columbus: Hero or Villain?
Lesson
6 - The Hunt is On: Explorers Find Their Way to North America
Lesson
7 - Mapping the Changing Shape of the World
Lesson
8 - Spanish Involvement in Early America
Lesson
9 - The Spanish Settle in North America
Lesson
10 - More European Settlements - Quebec
European
Settlement
Unit
Plan for European Settlement
Lesson
1 - No Wonder People Wanted to Leave: 17th and 18th Century European History
Lesson
2 - Exactly Where Did the Europeans Go?
Lesson
3 - Let's Make a Deal! New Netherlands
Lesson
4 - North America - New Spain in the South and New France in the North
Lesson
5 - A Ghost Town: Roanoke
Lesson
6 - Survival: Jamestown and Plymouth
Lesson
7 - European Relations with Native Americans During Colonization
Lesson
8 - Oral History of Native Americans
Lesson
9 - Triangular Trade and the Middle Passage
Lesson
10 - Slavery: An Unspeakable Cruelty
The New
England Colonies
Unit
Plan for The New England Colonies
Middle
Atlantic Colonies
Unit
Plan for Middle Atlantic Colonies
The Southern
Colonies
Unit
Plan for The Southern Colonies
The American
Revolution
Unit
Plan for The American Revolution
The
Constitution
Unit
Plan for The Constitution