Focus:
The CKHG Primary Source Activity Book provides opportunities for students to develop and practice primary source analysis and informational literacy skills. Sources are closely aligned with CKHG Student Reader content, and carefully crafted questions guide students through analysis of each source. The activities can be used one by one to reinforce chapter content or can be grouped by unit for a culminating activity.
Number of Lessons: 8–31, depending on implementation model
Additional Search Terms:
social studies • history • primary sources • editorial cartoons • activities • Ancient Greece • Ancient Rome • Ancient Greece and Rome• The Enlightenment • The French Revolution • The French Revolution and Romanticism • Industrial Revolution • Latin America • Independence for Latin America • The Making of America • Immigration • Industrialization and Urbanization in America • Reform in Industrial America
Focus:
The CKHG Primary Source Activity Book provides opportunities for students to develop and practice primary source analysis and informational literacy skills. Sources are closely aligned with CKHG Student Reader content, and carefully crafted questions guide students through analysis of each source. The activities can be used one by one to reinforce chapter content or can be grouped by unit for a culminating activity.
Number of Lessons: 11–42, depending on implementation model
Additional Search Terms:
social studies • history • primary sources • artifacts • activities • Maya • Aztec • Inca • Age of Exploration • Renaissance • Reformation • England • England and the Golden Age • Early Russia • Feudal Japan • Westward Expansion • Civil War • Native Americans
Focus:
The CKHG Primary Source Activity Book provides opportunities for students to develop and practice primary source analysis and informational literacy skills. Sources are closely aligned with CKHG Student Reader content, and carefully crafted questions guide students through analysis of each source. The activities can be used one by one to reinforce chapter content or can be grouped by unit for a culminating activity.
Number of Lessons: 8–32, depending on implementation model
Additional Search Terms:
social studies • history • primary sources • activities • Medieval Europe • Medieval Islamic Empires • Early and Medieval African Kingdoms • Dynasties of China • American Revolution • United States Constitution • U.S. Constitution • Early Presidents • American Reformers • Early Presidents and Social Reformers
Focus:
The CKHG Primary Source Activity Book provides opportunities for students to develop and practice primary source analysis and informational literacy skills. Sources are closely aligned with CKHG Student Reader content, and carefully crafted questions guide students through analysis of each source. The activities can be used one by one to reinforce chapter content or can be grouped by unit for a culminating activity.
Number of Lessons: 6–18, depending on implementation model
Additional Search Terms:
social studies • history • primary sources • artifacts • activities • Ancient Rome • Rome • Vikings • Earliest Americans • Native American • Canada • Inuit• Exploration • Exploration of North America • Thirteen Colonies
Focus:
The Core Knowledge History and Geography (CKHG) Grade 4 Understanding Economics will provide an overview of the following content: Every society must answer basic economic questions: What will the society produce? How will the society produce it? How will society distribute it? The answers to these questions are shaped by many factors, including access to resources, access to technology, and cultural values. Similarly, individuals also make economic decisions about what to buy, where to buy it, when to save, how much to save, and so on. These decisions are informed by the availability of goods and services, prices, and personal values.
Number of Lessons: 5
(A total of ten days has been allocated to the Understanding Economics unit. You may choose to implement this unit in a ten-day block or spread the content throughout the year, as time allows.)
Lesson Time:
Flexible
Additional Search Terms:
economy • mortgage • capital • raw materials • labor • entrepreneur • interdependence • profit • opportunity cost • discount • elastic • glut • budget • market value • wages • transaction • tax • currency • monopoly • empire • mercantilism • boom
Focus:
The Core Knowledge History and Geography (CKHG) Grade 4 Understanding Civics will provide an overview of the role of government and the rights and duties of citizenship. As well as answering the following questions: why do we have the government that we do? What do we expect of our government? What does our government expect of us? How is power distributed? Understanding Civics pursues answers to all of these questions and more. It explores who we are as a nation and how our government reflects that identity.
Number of Lessons: 4
(A total of ten days has been allocated to the Understanding Civics unit. You may choose to implement this unit in a ten-day block or spread the content throughout the year, as time allows.)
Lesson Time:
Flexible
Additional Search Terms:
legislature • citizen • democracy • economy • representative • constitution • confederation • monarchy • prime minister • monarchy • dictatorship • oligarchy • immigration • social contract • amendment • federalism • ratification • heritage • diversity • patriotism • naturalization • tradition
Focus:
During the years of 1860 and 1861, eleven slaveholding states seceded from the United States of America and the Civil War began, giving credence to Abraham Lincoln’s warning that “a house divided against itself cannot stand.” In this unit, students explore the difficult subject of the Civil War in an age-appropriate way without avoiding difficult truths. Students see the beginnings of slavery in America and the moral struggles and compromises surrounding it. They meet Harriet Tubman and follow her as she takes her passengers north on the Underground Railroad. They watch the tensions between the slave and free states build until the Union and the Confederacy finally go to war.
Students are introduced to the generals Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant and are shown some of the strategies behind the major campaigns. Finally, they see the surrender of the Confederacy and walk with Lee to meet Grant at Appomattox.
The Civil War has a rich and complicated history filled with strong characters. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Clara Barton, and of course, Abraham Lincoln, among others, are shown as people who work to do what they feel is right, even when it is difficult.
Number of Lessons: 7
Instruction Time:
We have intentionally left the pacing and timing needed to teach the content presented in the Teacher Guide and Student Book very flexible. Teachers can choose how much they read aloud and discuss in a single instructional period, as well as how often each week they use the CKHG materials.
Additional Search Terms:
informational text • nonfiction • slavery • plantations • abolitionists • Sarah and Angelina Grimké • Uncle Tom’s Cabin • Confederate States of America • Jefferson Davis • Fort Sumter • blue • Yankees • Union • gray • rebels • Confederacy • George McClellan • Battle of Antietam • Manassas • Emancipation Proclamation • West Point • Battle of Gettysburg • Battle of the Wilderness • William Tecumseh Sherman • American Red Cross
Focus:
As towns and cities along the East Coast grew, Americans began to look west. In this unit, students will see the new developments in transportation that helped make this happen. Canals, steamboats, wagon trains and, ultimately, the Transcontinental Railroad all took settlers west where they found new ways of living. The Gold Rush lured them to California to mine for gold, and promises of wide open spaces, new land to farm, and jobs along the railroad all helped keep the settlers moving west.
Students will experience the great adventures on the new frontier and see the courage of people like Daniel Boone and the riders of the Pony Express. They will discover the innovations of Robert Fulton and DeWitt Clinton. But they will also come to know the negative impact of the westward movement, as the Native Americans who had lived on the land for centuries were forced to adjust, and often forced to leave that land. Core Knowledge works to introduce students to difficult realities such as the Trail of Tears and the loss of great numbers of American bison in an age-appropriate manner while not shying away from the truth.
Finally, students will learn about Sequoyah and his creation of a system to make a written form of the Cherokee language.
Number of Lessons: 9
Instruction Time:
We have intentionally left the pacing and timing needed to teach the content presented in the Teacher Guide and Student Book very flexible. Teachers can choose how much they read aloud and discuss in a single instructional period, as well as how often each week they use the CKHG materials.
Additional Search Terms:
informational text • nonfiction • Wilderness Road • Daniel Boone • Appalachian Mountains • flatboats • keelboat • steamboat • Robert Fulton • Clermont • Erie Canal • DeWitt Clinton • Oregon Trail • Great Plains • Rocky Mountains • Jedediah Smith • South Pass • wagon train • Gold Rush • forty-niners • Levi Strauss • Pony Express • telegraph • Transcontinental Railroad • Promontory Point • cowboys • Native Americans • Andrew Jackson • Trail of Tears • Cherokee • American bison • Sioux • Sequoyah
Focus:
This unit provides a broad introduction to economics, including:
- what is an economy
- the difference between a goods and a service
- the difference between needs and wants
- the three types of resources: natural, human, capital
- how people make economic choices
- what scarcity means
- what a market place is
- how government can help economy
- why countries trade with each other
Number of Lessons: 7
Instruction Time:
We have intentionally left the pacing and timing needed to teach the content presented in the Teacher Guide and Student Book very flexible. Teachers can choose how much they read aloud and discuss in a single instructional period, as well as how often each week they use the CKHG materials.
Additional Search Terms:
economy • goods • services • digital • needs • wants • resources • natural resources • human resources • capital resources • skills • producer • consumer • factory • budget • opportunity cost • marketplace • credit • trade • global economy
Focus:
This unit provides a broad overview of what it means to be part of a community, including:
- what it means to be a member of a community
- the purpose and importance of rules and laws
- characteristics of good citizenship
- examples of good citizenship from history
- how our community helps us and how we can help our community
- throughout history people have fought to change unfair laws
- understanding that in the United States, laws are made by leaders who are elected
- know national holidays and American symbols
Number of Lessons: 8
Instruction Time:
We have intentionally left the pacing and timing needed to teach the content presented in the Teacher Guide and Student Book very flexible. Teachers can choose how much they read aloud and discuss in a single instructional period, as well as how often each week they use the CKHG materials.
Additional Search Terms:
community • rules • laws • rights • culture • courage • identity • heritage • symbol • traditions • immigrant • representative • democracy • document • independent • citizen • lawmakers
