Unit 1 - Launching Social Studies

• Tools used by historians, geographers, economists, political scientists

• connecting themes across Social Studies domains.

• Rights and responsibilities of American citizens.

Unit 2 - American Government Basics

• Branches of government

• Rights and responsibilities of American citizens.

Unit 3 - Economics 101

• Types of resources (natural, human, capital resources, entrepreneurship)

• Goods and services

• Voluntary exchange

• Opportunity Cost

Unit 4 - United States Geography

• Major rivers and mountain ranges in the United States

• locate and describe equator, prime meridian, latitude/longitude

Unit 5 - Native American - Past and Present

• Where and how Native Americans lived in North America

• Contributions to modern culture

• Why and how they lived where they did

Unit 6 - Let's Go Explore!

• Why and how European exploration took place

• accomplishments of explores (John Cabot, Vasco Nunez de Balboa, Hernando de Soto, Christopher Columbus, Henry Hudson, Jacques Cartier)

• Cooperation and Conflict between Native Americans and Explorers

• How geography affected European exploration

Unit 7 - British Colonial America

• Why each region of colonies was founded

• Compare/contrast life in each region of colonies

• Colonial life

• How geography affected the economies of the American colonies.