Grade 4 Fall History - State History as a Framework Unit: Indigenous Homelands, Contact and Sovereignty, Statehood, Geography, Government, Economy, Symbols, and the State Archive (Concrete Example: California; Localizable to Any State or Province)
History · GEO
G4 (D2.Geo.1-6.3-5; CA HSS 4.1; TEKS 4.6; NYS 4.1)
hist.g4.f.geo.state_geography_deep_skills
Apply Five Themes of Geography and state-archive cadastral-map reading to the state
Apply all Five Themes of Geography (NCGE) to the state. Read a state-archive historical cadastral map (MG-5 Doc-7 facsimile) using map-skills extended from G3-Fall: latitude/longitude with state-scale, watersheds, climate regions, political vs physical maps, scale bar at state-scale, legend, grid. Locate the state's capital, 6 major cities, 3-6 physical regions, major rivers, and the contemporary tribal lands of the 2-3 studied Indigenous nations.
Mastery threshold
80%
Min instances
8
Typical minutes
50
Spaced intervals (days)
1, 3, 7, 14, 30, 60
Prereqs
- Identify and describe the state's physical regions, watersheds, climate zones, and natural resources
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hist.g3.f.geo.map_skills_nested_scales
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Successors
- Trace the state's economic history through its primary industries with attention to the labor of multiple communities
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hist.g4.s.geo.us_regions
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Common misconceptions
- Treating LOCATION as only absolute (lat/long) without relative-location work
- Missing the human-environment interaction theme
- Conflating physical region with political region