Poyen School
Poyen School Curriculum K - 12 2007-2008

Social Studies - 5th Grade Arkansas History


Strand 1: Time Continuity and Change

    Content Standard 1
The learner will be able to demonstrate and understanding of historical chronology, concepts, and relationships.
Strand Bloom's Scope Hours Source
Content Standard 1 Master 1.0 Arkansas History Frameworks
  
    Chronological order
The learner will be able to use chronological order to explain the cause and effect of events throughout Arkansas History through writing and by creating timelines, charts, and graphs.
Strand Bloom's Scope Hours Source
Content Standard 1 Master 1.0 Arkansas History Frameworks TCC 1.1
Instructional Resources
- Arkansas: The World Around Us, Page 86, 140 [Textbook].  
- Activity, power point presentation [Teaching Strategies].  
- Harcourt-Arkansas State Activity Book, Page 14, 15, 22 [Work Books].  
Assessment Resources
- Journal, student writing [Teaching Strategies].  
  
    Traditions
The learner will be able to explore, interpret, analyze and evaluate mulitple types of primary and secondary sources to show how traditions help people maintain continuity and ties with the past.
Strand Bloom's Scope Hours Source
Content Standard 1 Master 1.0 Arkansas History Frameworks TCC 1.2
Instructional Resources
- Activity, Comparison [Teaching Strategies].  Compare a letter written by a soldier in the Civil War to an account in the history book. Compare a picture taken during the Civil War to a painting done years later.
- Harcourt-Arkansas State Activity Book, page 20 [Work Books].  
Assessment Resources
- Class discussion, student work [Teaching Strategies].  
  
    Cause/effect of conflitct
The learner will be able to compare and contrast the causes and effects of conflict within the state, the nation, and the world.
Strand Bloom's Scope Hours Source
Content Standard 1 Master 1.0 Arkansas History Frameworks TCC 1.3
Instructional Resources
- Arkansas: The World Around Us, Page 120 - 145 [Textbook].  
- Activity, Power point [Teaching Strategies].  
- Harcourt-Arkansas State Activity Book, Page 21 [Work Books].  
Assessment Resources
- Class discussion, student work [Teaching Strategies].  
  
    History is continuing story
The learner will be able to analyze how past decisions and events affect subsequent decisions throughout Arkansas' history.
Strand Bloom's Scope Hours Source
Content Standard 1 Master 1.0 Arkansas History Frameworks TCC 1.4
  
    Content Standard 2
The learner will be able to demonstrate and understanding of how ideas, events, and conditions bring about change.
Strand Bloom's Scope Hours Source
Content Standard 2 Master 1.0 Arkansas History Frameworks
  
    Effects of change
The learner will be able to explore and explain the technological changes in areas such as agriculture, arts, communication, languages, literature, and transportation which affect Arkansas.
Strand Bloom's Scope Hours Source
Content Standard 2 Master 1.0 Arkansas History Frameworks TCC 2.1
Instructional Resources
- Arkansas: The World Around Us, Pages 100-101 [Textbook].  
Assessment Resources
- Class discussion, printing press [Teaching Strategies].   How the arrival of the printing press in the Arkansas territory allowed Arkansas to have the first newspaper west of the Mississippi river and how that affected communication.
- Class discussion, railroads [Teaching Strategies].   Discuss how the growth of railroads in Arkansas affected transportation and growth of the timber industry.
- essay, student work [Textbook].  
- Journal, student work [Teaching Strategies].  
  
    Government brings change
The learner will be able to demonstrate an understanding of how the foundations of government and political ideals in documents such as the state and national constitution and amendments have brought about change.
Strand Bloom's Scope Hours Source
Content Standard 2 Master 1.0 Arkansas History Frameworks TCC 2.2
Instructional Resources
- Arkansas: The World Around Us, Page 130-132 [Textbook].  
Assessment Resources
- Class discussion, Emancipation Proclamation [Teaching Strategies].   Discuss how the Emancipation Proclamation changed the US Constitution by becoming the 13th Amendment.
- Class discussion, Reconstruction [Teaching Strategies].   Discuss how Reconstruction forced the Confederate states to rewrite their constitutions making slavery illegal before they could be readmitted to the Union.
- essay, student work [Textbook].  
- Journal, student work [Teaching Strategies].  
  
    Continuity and change
The learner will be able to use a variety of processes, such as reading, writing, listening, and speaking, debating, and role playing to demonstrate continuity and change.
Strand Bloom's Scope Hours Source
Content Standard 2 Master 1.0 Arkansas History Frameworks TCC 2.3
  

Strand 2: People, Places, Environments

    Content Standard 1
The learner will be able to demonstrate an understanding that people, their cultures and systems are connected and that similarities and differences exist among them.
Strand Bloom's Scope Hours Source
Content Standard 1 Master 1.0 Arkansas History Frameworks
  
    Past traditions
The learner will be able to demonstrate an understanding that one's identity is connected to ideals and traditions from the past and other cultures through activities such as role playing and researching genealogy and other primary and secondary sources.
Strand Bloom's Scope Hours Source
Content Standard 1 Master 1.0 Arkansas History Frameworks PPE 1.1
  
    Compare/contrast cultures
The learner will be able to identify and discuss various racial/ethnic groups and cultures in historical and contemporary Arkansas through writing, literature, and fine arts.
Strand Bloom's Scope Hours Source
Content Standard 1 Master 1.0 Arkansas History Frameworks PPE 1.2
Instructional Resources
- Arkansas: The World Around Us, Page 60 - 93 [Textbook].  
- Harcourt-Arkansas State Activity Book, Page 7,8 [Work Books].  
Assessment Resources
- Class discussion, location names [Teaching Strategies].   Discussion of how many present day places in Arkansas were named by or for French Explorers and Native Americans. French: Petit Jean Mountain, Des Arc; Native Americans: Arkansas, Caddo River, Caddo Valley, Quapaw Quarters;
- essay, student work [Textbook].  
- Journal, student work [Teaching Strategies].  
  
    Belief systems
The learner will be able to examine and explain belief systems with respect to political, social, and aesthetic activities that make up Arkansas traditions.
Strand Bloom's Scope Hours Source
Content Standard 1 Master 1.0 Arkansas History Frameworks PPE 1.3
  
    Content Standard 2
The learner will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the significance of physical and cultural characteristics of Arkansas.
Strand Bloom's Scope Hours Source
Content Standard 2 Master 1.0 Arkansas History Frameworks
  
    Geography & environment
The learner will be able to analyze how humans have adapted to, altered, and been affected by physical environments in Arkansas.
Strand Bloom's Scope Hours Source
Content Standard 2 Master 1.0 Arkansas History Frameworks PPE 2.1
Instructional Resources
- Activity, Map [Teaching Strategies].  Create a map of Arkansas showing major bodies of water and landforms. Discuss the limitations and opportunities that these landforms presented during the early development of Arkansas.
Assessment Resources
- essay, student work [Textbook].  
- Test, teacher made [Assessment Objective].  
  
    Five Themes of geography
The learner will be able to examine various cultures in Arkansas with respect to the five themes of geography: location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and regions using appropriate methods and tools such as field studies, simulations, interactive technology, maps and globes.
Strand Bloom's Scope Hours Source
Content Standard 2 Master 1.0 Arkansas History Frameworks PPE 2.2
  
    Six geographical regions
The learner will be able to distinguish similarities and differences among the six natural geographical regions of Arkansas.
Strand Bloom's Scope Hours Source
Content Standard 2 Master 1.0 Arkansas History Frameworks PPE 2.3
Instructional Resources
- Arkansas: The World Around Us, Pages 29 - 41 [Textbook].  
- Activity, Label a map [Teaching Strategies].  Map of 6 regions of Arkansas.
- Activity, Research project [Teaching Strategies].  Work in small groups to research one of teh natural geographic regions of Arkansas and give a presentation.
- Activity, Chart [Teaching Strategies].  Chart that compares and contrasts the regions: Example: landforms, how created, highland or lowland,
Assessment Resources
- Class discussion, regions of Arkansas [Teaching Strategies].  
- Journal, student work [Teaching Strategies].  
- Test, teacher made [Assessment Objective].  
- Teacher Observation, student work [Assessment Objective].  
- Project, group [Teaching Strategies].  
  
    Geographic features of Arkansas
The learner will be able to locate, describe, and map varying landforms and geographic features in Arkansas, such as forests, mountains, plateaus, prairies, rivers, lakes and wetlands.
Strand Bloom's Scope Hours Source
Content Standard 2 Master 1.0 Arkansas History Frameworks PPE 2.4
  

Strand 3:Production,Distrib.,Consumption

    Content Standard 1
The learner will be able to demonstrate and understanding of the economy of Arkansas and its relationship with other economies.
Strand Bloom's Scope Hours Source
Content Standard 1 Master 1.0 Arkansas History Frameworks
  
    Arkansas economic institutions
The learner will be able to describe the various Arkansas economic institutions at local, state, and national levels such as businesses, government agencies, and labor unions.
Strand Bloom's Scope Hours Source
Content Standard 1 Master 1.0 Arkansas History Frameworks PDC 1.1
Assessment Resources
- Class discussion, producing, exchanging, consuming, saving [Teaching Strategies].  
- Class discussion, role of economic institutions [Teaching Strategies].  
- Class discussion, student work [Teaching Strategies].  
  
    Limits to goods and services
The learner will be able to assess how goods and services are limited by available human and natural resources, requiring individuals and Societies to make choices to satisfy wants and needs.
Strand Bloom's Scope Hours Source
Content Standard 1 Master 1.0 Arkansas History Frameworks PDC 1.2
  
    Competition
The learner will be able to identify and assess how national and international business competition has had an impact on Arkansas' economy.
Strand Bloom's Scope Hours Source
Content Standard 1 Master 1.0 Arkansas History Frameworks PDC 1.3
  
    Arkansas Economy
The learner will be able to research and describe elements in Arkansas' economy including tourism, recreation, agriculture, and natural resources.
Strand Bloom's Scope Hours Source
Content Standard 1 Master 1.0 Arkansas History Frameworks PDC 1.4
  
    Economic terms
The learner will be able to explain economic terms, such as opportunity cost, scarcity, and production and describe different means of economic exchange, such as bartering, trading, and marketing.
Strand Bloom's Scope Hours Source
Content Standard 1 Master 1.0 Arkansas History Frameworks PDC 1.5
  

Strand 4:Power,Authority,and Governance

    Content Standard 1
The learner will be able to demonstrate and understanding of our national, state, and local government and of the rights and responsibilities of participating in a democratic society within Arkansas.
Strand Bloom's Scope Hours Source
Content Standard 1 Master 1.0 Arkansas History Frameworks
  
    Government in Arkansas
The learner will be able to know and understand the role of political leaders, organization, function, and operation of local, county, and state governments in Arkansas.
Strand Bloom's Scope Hours Source
Content Standard 1 Master 1.0 Arkansas History Frameworks PAG 1.1
  
    Arkansas Public Policy
The learner will be able to explain the historical and current impact of American public policy on Arkansas' political, racial, religious, geographic, ethnic, economic, and linguistic diversity.
Strand Bloom's Scope Hours Source
Content Standard 1 Master 1.0 Arkansas History Frameworks PAG 1.2
  
    Leadership in Arkansas
The learner will be able to summarize the charcteristics of effective leadership in Arkansas in historical and contemporary time periods.
Strand Bloom's Scope Hours Source
Content Standard 1 Master 1.0 Arkansas History Frameworks PAG 1.3
Instructional Resources
- Harcourt-Arkansas State Activity Book, pages 25 - 26 [Work Books].  
- Activity, Famous Arkansan Biography [Teaching Strategies].  
- Activity, Biography [Teaching Strategies].  
- Arkansas: The World Around Us, Page 220 [Textbook].  
Assessment Resources
- Class discussion, good Citizen [Teaching Strategies].   Food drive,, clean up campus
- Journal, student work [Teaching Strategies].  
  
    Responsibility of Citizenship
The learner will be able to discuss and evaluate the concept of good citizenship in Arkansas.
Strand Bloom's Scope Hours Source
Content Standard 1 Master 1.0 Arkansas History Frameworks PAG 1.4
  
    Civic participation
The learner will be able to practice forms of civic participation through simulations (e.g., voter registration, elections, and jury duty).
Strand Bloom's Scope Hours Source
Content Standard 1 Master 1.0 Arkansas History Frameworks 1.5
Instructional Resources
- Activity, Role play jury duty [Teaching Strategies].  
Assessment Resources
- Class discussion, civic participation [Teaching Strategies].  
- Teacher Observation, student work [Assessment Objective].  
  

Strand 5:Social Science Processes/Skills

    Content Standard 1
The learner will be able to demonstrate criticalthinking skills through research, reading, writing, speaking, listening, and problem solving using the tools of social sciences.
Strand Bloom's Scope Hours Source
Content Standard 1 Master 1.0 Arkansas History Frameworks
  
    Primary & Secondary Sources
The learner will be able to identify between primary and secondary sources.
Strand Bloom's Scope Hours Source
Content Standard 1 Master 1.0 Arkansas History Frameworks SSPS 1.1
Instructional Resources
- Activity, Black History Project [Teaching Strategies].  
- Activity, Women's History Project [Teaching Strategies].  
- Activity, Arkansan Biography [Teaching Strategies].  
- Activity, Project presentations [Teaching Strategies].  
- Activity, Biography [Teaching Strategies].  
  
    Interpret information
The learner will be able to analyze artifacts, oral histories, photographs, landmarks, literature, and the arts to understand Arkansas' culture by using a variety of methods (e.g. simulations, field studies, library research, presentations, role playing, projects, portfolios, synthesis, etc.).
Strand Bloom's Scope Hours Source
Content Standard 1 Master 1.0 Arkansas History Frameworks SSPS 1.2
Instructional Resources
- Activity, Visit LR Central High School museum [Teaching Strategies].  
- Activity, Visit Clinton Presidential Library [Teaching Strategies].  
  
    Fact/opinion
The learner will be able to apply historical methodologies to understnad the differences between fact and opinion.
Strand Bloom's Scope Hours Source
Content Standard 1 Master 1.0 Arkansas History Frameworks SSPS 1.3
  
    Creative & critical thinking skills
The learner will be able to develop creative and critical thinking skills.
Strand Bloom's Scope Hours Source
Content Standard 1 Master 1.0 Arkansas History Frameworks SSPS 1.4
  

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