P.S. 105 The Blythebourne
Collaboration / Grade 4 Unit 3 2012-2013* / Grade 4 (P.S. 105 The Blythebourne)
Monday, October 22, 2012, 10:39AM
Unit: Social Studies (Week 24, 10 Weeks)
Standards
NYS: CCLS:ELA & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, & Technical Subjects PreK–5, NYS: 4th Grade , Reading: Informational Text
Key Ideas and Details
1. Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
§ 1. Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
2. Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
§ 2. Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text.
3. Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.
§ 3. Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text.
Big Ideas
The New Nation/ Growth and Expansion / Essential Questions
What does it mean to be free?
Leading Questions
1. What are the challenges of creating a new Nation?
2. What Key ideas and documents shaped the new nation?
3. What role did NYS have in the development of the new nation?
4. How has the constitution represented some people but not others?
5. How do you balance individual liberties with the needs of a nation?
What was the effect of Industrial growth on New York?
Lead Questions
1. How did New York emerge as an economic power?
2. How did technological advancements change New Yorkers?
3. What was New York State’s pivotal role in advancing the idea of equal rights?
4. What was the immigrant experience?
5. What was the effect of immigration of the growth of New York City?
Content
The New Nation
The Challenges of CreatingA New Nation:
• Foundations for a new government/ideals of American
democracy
Key Ideas and Documents that Shaped the Nation:
• Declaration of Independence
• The Constitution as a
framework
• The Bill of Rights and individual liberties
The Role of NYS in the Development of the
New Nation:
• Identify the NY Constitution as a framework
• Identify the physical features of New York City and NYS
• Contemplate the relationship between geographic features and the role of NY in the nations development
• Key individuals/groups from NY who helped strengthen democracy in the US
The Constitution Represented Some People but Not Others
• Impact of Peter Zenger decision
• Lack of inclusiveness (Africans, women, the poor)
• Individuals and groups not protected by rights and freedoms
The Balance of Individual Liberties with the Needs of a New Nation
• Values, practice and tradition that unite all Americans
Growth andExpansion
New York Emerges as an Economic Power:
§ Improvements and inventions in transportation and communication (the development of the steamboat, telegraph, The Erie Canal joins the Hudson River and Lake Erie)
Technological Advancements Affect New Yorkers
§ Fulton Steamboat
§ Electricity
Equal Rights
§ Gradual Emancipation
Laws
§ Seneca Falls and the
Suffrage Movement
§ Role of New York City and New York State during the Civil War
§ The Draft Riots
§ Migration of freed slaves following the Civil War
The Immigrant Experience
§ Reasons for immigration to New York
§ The Great Irish Famine
§ Immigrant experiences during travel, Ellis Island, life in America
The effect of immigration of the growth of New York City
§ The development of new buildings
§ Mass transportation
§ Building codes
§ Public health laws
§ Modern sewer and water systems
§ Professional fire department
§ Labor movement and child labor
§ “The Melting Pot “ metaphor
Contributions of Immigrants to American Culture
§ Recreation, food, language, skills / Skills/Strategies
Skills and Strategies The New Nation
§ Recognize the role of compromise in drafting the Constitution
§ Understand that the US Constitution is flexible, continually challenged and reinterpreted
§ Comprehend the reasons for the balance of power within the US government
§ Explain how citizens have certain rights and responsibilities guaranteed by the US constitution
§ Learn about the context in which the US Constitution was written
§ Interpret primary sources
§ Ask authentic questions
§ Distinguish between fact and opinion
§ Form opinions about current events
Skills & Strategies:Growth and Expansion
§ Understand the significance of the Erie Canal in NYS history
§ Examine NYS’ role in advancing the idea of equal representation.
§ Understand the causes and effects of immigration
§ Value the impact of the immigrants on American culture
§ Identify how NYC’s infrastructure changed in the early 1900s
§ Research the obstacles immigrants encountered traveling to the US and when they arrived at a processing station
§ Select and use appropriate sources to answer questions
§ Credit sources by citing author and title
Assessment/ Performance Task
Learning Activities
The New Nation
Learning Activities:
§ Review the ideals established in the
Declaration of Independence
• Explore and sign the Declaration of Independence at
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_join_the_signers.html.
§ Yertle the Turtle and Other Monarchs
Examine the preamble to the Constitution Consult We the Kids: The Preamble to the
Constitution of the United States;
http://bensguide.gpo.gov/3-
5/documents/constitution/index.html;
http://www.usconstitution.net/constkids4.html;
http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/i
ndepth/constitution_day/teachers/index.asp?article=teacher
§ Interpret a song about the Bill of Rights
http://www.songsforteaching.com/mme/bil
lofrights.htm;
§ Examine physical maps of the US and NYS in the early 1800’s
§ Use a Venn Diagram to compare John Jay’s contributions with Alexander Hamilton’s
§ Trade book John Peter Zenger: Free Press Advocate (Interpret historical quotes – Write Around Activities)
§ www.infoplease.com/ipa/AO749825.html (focus on ammendments 13, 15, 16,19
§ Growing Up activity
Growth and Expansion
New York Emerges as an Economic Power:
§ Improvements and inventions in transportation and communication (the development of the steamboat, telegraph, The Erie Canal joins the Hudson River and Lake Erie)
Technological Advancements Affect New Yorkers
§ Fulton Steamboat
§ Electricity
Equal Rights
§ Gradual Emancipation
Laws
§ Seneca Falls and the
Suffrage Movement
§ Role of New York City and New York State during the Civil War
§ The Draft Riots
§ Migration of freed slaves following the Civil War
The Immigrant Experience
§ Reasons for immigration to New York
§ The Great Irish Famine
§ Immigrant experiences during travel, Ellis Island, life in America
The effect of immigration of the growth of New York City
§ The development of new buildings
§ Mass transportation
§ Building codes
§ Public health laws
§ Modern sewer and water systems
§ Professional fire department
§ Labor movement and child labor
§ “The Melting Pot “ metaphor
Contributions of Immigrants to American Culture
§ Recreation, food, language, skills / Resources/Touchtone Texts/Field Trips
The New Nation
Resources:
www.schooltube.com/video
www.besthistorysites.net
HTTP://DIGITALGALLERY.NYPL.ORG
www.gilderlehrman.org
Trips:
Brooklyn Museum
www.Brooklynmuseum.org
Metropolitan Museum of Art www.metmuseum.org
Federal Hall www.nps.gove/feha
Museum of the city of New York www.ncny.org
Growth and Expansion
Resources
http://Americanhistory.mrdonn.org
Trips
Ellis Island
http://Ellisisland.org
New York Transit Museum
Http://www.mta.info/mta/museum
Tenement Museum
www.tenement.org
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