120 Social Studies-Ms. Salen 🟣 120 Assignments

The impact of slavery, Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, the Industrial Revolution, and the Great Big Fire on our state of Illinois (and Chicago).  Work in your groups to read and answer questions.

Read the informational text and diagrams about Illinois becoming a state.  Then answer the questions.

Watch the CNN10 video and complete the exit ticket.

Complete the jamboard in your small groups. 


Everyone in the group should take turns participating.

Plot the Proclamation Line using grid coordinates

Watch the CNN10 video and complete the exit ticket.

Read the following SEL lesson on Nearpod: 

code:  KGMPZ 
If you finish early, play the Blooket about the Flags of the World.

Watch the CNN10 video and complete the exit ticket.

Read the definitions of primary and secondary sources and then complete the activity - identify if the sources of information are primary (P) or secondary (S) sources.

We are going to add a day of current events to our Social Studies calendar.  Watch the CNN10 video and then complete the exit ticket.  
Looking for:

countries named in video
answer to the 10 second trivia
one story that was interesting to you and why
one thing you have learned this week

In small groups, read the informational text about 3 European explorers' travels in the Great Lakes region and Illinois.

We will read the informational text together about the early fur trade in Illinois and the French influence on our state's history.   Highlight important pieces of evidence on your copy of the Jamboard.

VOTE!  All votes are due by the end of today.

Create a Second Step poster slide about what we have learned this year from the second step program.  orCreate an acrostic poem with the words THINK or ACTION etc. that becomes the central theme for the poster. 
Choose one of the format options below:  Google Slides - horizontal orientationGoogle Slides - vertical orientation Jamboard 

In small groups, match the definitions to the vocabulary words.

Review our problem solving skills.  Using the form attached write a story about a problem between two or
more people and how they solve it.

Review our problem solving skills.  Using the form attached write a story about a problem between two or
more people and how they solve it. 

If you did not get the notes complete on your jamboard, I have attached mine from our meet.

Test out our understanding of bias and Primary Source testimonies to find out what happened between Bart Simpson and Mr. Burns (from the Simpsons TV show).

Monday and Wednesday: As a class, we will read and highlight important information in the text, and then students will answer the questions.

on the attached slides - sort the dates in chronological order (earliest date to latest date) on the timeline. Drag the dates to the timeline and put in order - they can be placed on top and below the timeline. Remember to look at if the date is BCE or CE - that will determine which side of 0 the date should be placed.

Drag and drop the definitions to the early Illinois vocabulary words. You can use the attached glossary for help.

Add your birthday (and name) to an event on our class timeline.
Add a picture of you or a symbol that represents you.
Put the event in chronological order.

Complete the quiz to show your understanding of map skills.

Practice learning the 50 states and where they are located in the United States. Depending on your knowledge of the states - start with Sheppard Learning Games. They have a tutorial, then level 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. Practice and then level up!

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Maps can serve many different purposes. Instead of showing all the information about one place on one map, the information is divided up into separate maps. This makes it easier to read.

Examples of types of maps are: Political maps (show boundaries of countries, states, cities...), Physical maps (shows what the land is like), Road maps (shows how to travel/ roads), Population map (shows how many people live in an area), and Economic map (shows what products are from different areas).

Practice using a compass rose to locate information on a map.

Practice using map grids to locate information

Follow the directions using map grid coordinates.

To color a square - press on the square the fill it with the correct color.

class code: salenk

Learn about the responsibilities of state governments and think about how that applies to our own state of Illinois.

What responsibilities does each level of government have? Take your best guess as to which level has which responsibilities. Start with who is in charge of each level and then sort the responsibilities into each branch. Don't cheat by looking it up online!

class code: salenk

Use the Google Doc file to list your compliment of your classmate (from your group)

In Epic Books read the book: Why Does Democracy Matter?
getepic.com
code: ycu7734

1. Read the scenerio
2. Write two different feelings for each one.
3. Write possible reasons for those complicated feelings.

I forgot to make a copy for each student on the previous post. I hope this helps. You may have to open it with Google Docs or another app in order to write on it. Or you can write the answers on paper and email it to me.

Take this 5 question quiz on Voters Rights

Create an anti-bullying sign. Think of examples of kind and respectful you can do for other people every day to try to prevent bullying.

Create a small Be Kind and Respectful Sign. Include at least three ways you can do something kind and respectful on your sign. Once we go back into school we can hang up these signs to remind us how to always be respectful and kind to one another.

What are two things you learned in our discussion today about Indigeneous People's Day.

At the end of Social Studies, we will finish with this quiz.

Create a superhero who will fight cyberbullying by being an upstander and a super digital citizen! You can use the Marvel website to help create your hero.

Complete the exit quiz at the end of our Social Studies class today.

This is the same quiz that was posted in our Reading Google Classroom, but really should have been posted in our Social Studies class. If you have already taken it, you don't need to take it again. (BUT you can take it more than once to raise your score).

This is a Quizizz quiz on the IB Learner Profiles so I can see if you can identify them.

You need to go through several steps for the account before taking the quiz. Most of you were able to do that in class.
Go in through Google Doc
Choose your email
Choose use for school
Student
Birthday
4th grade
then you should be in for the quiz

If you have problems let me know.

Think about the media choices you make everyday. Log when you use media, what kind it is, and for how much time you use it per day.