Later Elementary Social Studies Units
Compiled by Imad Fadlallah
September 2003
 


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 5 - What is a County?

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 8 - Automation Alley

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 1 - Where In Michigan?

Lesson 2 - Choose Me - Chamber of Commerce

Lesson 3 - Hands on Michigan

Lesson 4 - Regions of Michigan

Lesson 5 - Rapping Regions

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