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Social Studies

FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA -

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Lessons at a Glance

• Chapters 1-12

Unit Activities and Resources

• Unit 1: Listen to the Land
  • Activity: Understanding Primary Sources: Describing the Grand Canyon
  • Activity: An Encyclopedia of Physical Features
  • Internet Resources
  Unit 2: The Land and the First Americans
  • Activity: Understanding Primary Sources:A Navajo Thunder Song
  • Activity: Hold a Native American Conference
  • Internet Resources
  Unit 3: Settling the Land
  • Activity: Understanding Primary Sources: Images of the West
  • Activity: Calling All Immigrants
  • Internet Resources
  Unit 4: The Land Today
  • Activity: Understanding Primary Sources: Know Your Rights!
  • Activity: Technology for the Future
  • Internet Resources

From My Class to Yours -  Try these teacher-created activities to support and extend activities in Houghton Mifflin Social Studies textbook program

• Activities

A Closer Look -Add to your investigation of historical and cultural clues by visiting Internet sites on these topics.

• The Grand Canyon

  A Prairie Dog Town

  The Great Provider

  Reading a Sand Painting

  A Log Raising

  A Freight Train

  National Parks

  Washington, D.C.

A Moment in Time - Get your passport ready! Continue your travel through time to meet fascinating people and visit far away places on the Internet.

• The Saguaro Cactus

  A Kwakiutl Speechmaker

  A Pioneer on the Oregon Trail

  An Immigrant on July 4

Home School Connection

• Unit 1 Letter: Listen to the Land

  Unit 2 Letter: The Land and the First Americans

  Unit 3 Letter: Settling the Land

  Unit 4 Letter: The Land Today

Literature Actiity Mastery

• I'm New Here
  by Bud Howlett

  Dragonfly's Tale
  by Kristina Rodanas

  Someday a Tree
  by Eve Bunting, illustrated by Ronald Himler

  How the Stars Fell into the Sky
  by Jerrie Oughton, illustrated by Lisa Desimini

Bibliography - Units 1-4

Primary Sources on the Web

 

 

 

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