Social Studies
Students will explore the history of colonization in North Carolina and evaluate its significance for developing diverse ideas. We will be focusing on early American Indians, exploration and settlement in the Coastal Plains, Piedmont, Mountains, and The American Revolution.
N.C. Standard Course of Study Objectives:
2.01 Locate and describe American Indians in North Carolina, past and present.
3.01 Assess changes in the way of living over time and determine whether the changes are primarily political, economic, or social.
3.02 Identify people, symbols, events, and documents associated with North Carolina's history.
3.03 Examine the Lost Colony and explain its importance in the settlement of North Carolina.
3.05 Describe the political and social history of colonial North Carolina and analyze its influence on the state today.
Vocabulary:
colony, expedition, governor, raw material, cash crops, charter, assembly, tax, royal colony, back-country, pioneer, treaty, barter, independence, representation, protest, revolution, constitution, and bill of rights
Science
Students will be discussing how to plan healthy meals and the benefits of good nutrition and healthy living. Students will understand food and the benefits of vitamins, minerals, and exercise.
N.C. Standard Course of Study Objective:
4.L.2.1 Classify substances as food or non-food items based on their ability to provide energy and materials for survival, growth and repair of the body.
4.L.2.2 Explain the roles of vitamins, minerals and exercise in maintaining a healthy body.
Vocabulary:
energy, vitamins A, B6, B12, C, D, E, K, minerals, magnesium, iron, calcium, potassium, sodium, sulfur, phosphorous
Math
Students will be solving multiplication problems with two digit numbers, understanding and using the relationship between multiplication and division to solve division problems, reasoning numbers using factors, representing the meaning of multiplication and division.
N.C. Common Core State Standards:
4.OA Use the four operations with whole numbers to solve problems.
4. NBT Use place value understanding for multi-digit whole numbers and to preform multi-digit arithmetic.
Vocabulary:
factor, doubled, halved, multiple, array, The Big 7, long division, equivalent, product
Literacy
Students will focus on non-fiction texts when determining the cause and effect of an event from the text. Students will also focus on how using context clues can help the reader have a better understanding of the text.
N.C. Common Core State Standards:
RL.4.1 Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
RL.4.3 Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text.
RI. 4.3 Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text.
Students will explore the history of colonization in North Carolina and evaluate its significance for developing diverse ideas. We will be focusing on early American Indians, exploration and settlement in the Coastal Plains, Piedmont, Mountains, and The American Revolution.
N.C. Standard Course of Study Objectives:
2.01 Locate and describe American Indians in North Carolina, past and present.
3.01 Assess changes in the way of living over time and determine whether the changes are primarily political, economic, or social.
3.02 Identify people, symbols, events, and documents associated with North Carolina's history.
3.03 Examine the Lost Colony and explain its importance in the settlement of North Carolina.
3.05 Describe the political and social history of colonial North Carolina and analyze its influence on the state today.
Vocabulary:
colony, expedition, governor, raw material, cash crops, charter, assembly, tax, royal colony, back-country, pioneer, treaty, barter, independence, representation, protest, revolution, constitution, and bill of rights
Science
Students will be discussing how to plan healthy meals and the benefits of good nutrition and healthy living. Students will understand food and the benefits of vitamins, minerals, and exercise.
N.C. Standard Course of Study Objective:
4.L.2.1 Classify substances as food or non-food items based on their ability to provide energy and materials for survival, growth and repair of the body.
4.L.2.2 Explain the roles of vitamins, minerals and exercise in maintaining a healthy body.
Vocabulary:
energy, vitamins A, B6, B12, C, D, E, K, minerals, magnesium, iron, calcium, potassium, sodium, sulfur, phosphorous
Math
Students will be solving multiplication problems with two digit numbers, understanding and using the relationship between multiplication and division to solve division problems, reasoning numbers using factors, representing the meaning of multiplication and division.
N.C. Common Core State Standards:
4.OA Use the four operations with whole numbers to solve problems.
4. NBT Use place value understanding for multi-digit whole numbers and to preform multi-digit arithmetic.
Vocabulary:
factor, doubled, halved, multiple, array, The Big 7, long division, equivalent, product
Literacy
Students will focus on non-fiction texts when determining the cause and effect of an event from the text. Students will also focus on how using context clues can help the reader have a better understanding of the text.
N.C. Common Core State Standards:
RL.4.1 Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
RL.4.3 Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text.
RI. 4.3 Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text.