Onion Creek School - Primary - Units

VITAL INFORMATION

Subject(s):

none

Grade/Level:

1-3

Time Required:

Objective(s):

Summary:

IMPLEMENTATION

Learning Activities:

1.	1. See the USA in your Chevrolet


2.	2. USA regions


3.	3. Prepare a museum display on region

ASSESSMENT & STANDARDS

Standards compiled from learning activities:

WA- Washington Essential Academic Learning Requirements

• Subject : Social Studies

• Division: Geography

• Standard : 1. The student uses maps, charts, and other geographic tools to understand the spatial arrangement of people, places, resources, and environments on Earth’s surface.

• Area : 1.2 Recognize spatial patterns on Earth’s surface and understand the processes that create these patterns

• Benchmark / Grade : BENCHMARK 1 – GRADE 5

Performance Expectation : 1.2.1a Locate places, major physical features, and human spatial patterns using maps, globes, and other sources (Location, Place, Region)

• Standard : 3. The student observes and analyzes the interaction between people, the environment, and culture.

• Area : 3.2 Analyze how the environment and environmental changes affect people

• Benchmark / Grade : BENCHMARK 1 – GRADE 5

Performance Expectation : 3.2.1b Describe how people adapt to their environment to meet basic human needs and concerns (Human/ Environment Interaction, Region)

• Area : 3.3 Examine cultural characteristics, transmission, diffusion, and interaction

• Benchmark / Grade : BENCHMARK 1 – GRADE 5

Performance Expectation : 3.3.1a Know that people are born into societies that consist of different racial, ethnic, religious, and/or social groups (Location, Region, Place)

• Division: History

• Standard : 1. The student examines and understands major ideas, eras, themes, developments, turning points, chronology, and cause-effect relationships in United States, world, and Washington State history.

• Area : 1.3 Examine the influence of culture on United States, world, and Washington State history

• Benchmark / Grade : BENCHMARK 1 – GRADE 5

Performance Expectation : 1.3.1 Describe the contributions of people from various cultural groups to the development of local, Washington State, and U.S. history

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