Unit Planner: Traveling West

(Then and Now)

Submitted By: Nicole Sheehan

EDEL 453: Teaching Elementary School Social Science Nevada State College Spring 2014 Instructor: Karen Powell

UNIT PLANNER: Traveling West :Then and Now

Summary of Lesson Plan

Submitted By: Nicole Sheehan

NV State Social Studies Objectives

NV State Social Studies Standards G5.5.6 Derive geographic information from photographs, maps, graphs, books, and technological resources. Student-Friendly Standards I can get geographic information from photographs, maps, and technological resources.

Notes

In this lesson students will be learning about the California Gold Rush appeal. We will watch a short video and do a writing activity that puts students in the place of a Gold miner(s) family at the time of the California Gold Rush.

MONDAY

*Remind students to bring shoe box for tomorrows activity. * Go to local payless and other shoe stores for extra shoe boxes for those who may not have any.

This social studies lesson is designed for 5th grade students to learn about the journey in several groups of people moving west during the time of the California Gold Rush. This lesson uses the Houghton Mifflin Social Studies textbook United States History (p. 400-403). This would be an extension of the previous days lesson. Students would now be packing a travel box for items for themselves if they had to pick up and move west in the present as opposed to being children during the time of The California Gold Rush. In this lesson we will incorporate a historical reenactment in making butter. We will do this using the ideas from the Integrating Language Arts and Social Studies books idea on making butter. This lesson will wrap up the unit on Traveling West compression between then and now. We will do a short quiz, quiz, trade review game on this weeks concepts. Students will be given a journal prompt acting as a quiz for this unit.

NV State Social Studies Standards H3.5.1 Compare and/or contrast the daily lives of children throughout the United States, both past and present. Student-Friendly Standards I can compare and/or contrast the lives of children in the Unites States from the past and in the present.

TUESDAY

*Remind students to bring item from home as well as another shoe box for tomorrows activity. * Go to local payless and other shoe stores for extra shoe boxes for those who may not have any.

NV State Social Studies Standards H3.5.1 Compare and/or contrast the daily lives of children throughout the United States, both past and present. Student-Friendly Standards I can compare and/or contrast the lives of children in the Unites States from the past and in the present.
**Bring all materials for tomorrows activity.

WEDNESDAY

NV State Social Studies Standards H3.5.4 Explain how technologies in U.S. history changed the way people lived. Student-Friendly Standards I can explain how technologies have changed the way people lived.
NV State Social Studies Standards H3.5.1 Compare and/or contrast the daily lives of children throughout the United States, both past and present. G5.5.6 Derive geographic information from photographs, maps, graphs, books, and technological resources. H3.5.4 Explain how technologies in U.S. history changed the way people lived. Student-Friendly Standards I can get geographic information from photographs, maps, and technological resources. I can compare and/or contrast the lives of children in the Unites States from the past and in the present. I can explain how technologies have changed the way people lived.

THURSDAY

*Prepare Quiz Quiz Trade cards for the following day.

FRIDAY

*grade all assessments turned in.

EDEL 453 - Spring 2014

Karen Powell- Instructor