Grade 4 Social Studies

4.1  Students will compare communities and describe how the local community changed physically and demographically over time.

4.2  Students will identify and describe the past and present contributions of people, such as the Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, African Americans, European Americans and Asian Americans in Nebraska.

4.3  Students will describe the discovery of the Americas by Columbus and other European explorers as well as the first permanent Spanish, French, and English settlements in North America.

4.4  Students will compare and contrast daily life in the past and present, considering things, such as roles, jobs, communication, technology, transportation, schools, and cultural traditions.

4.5  Students will explain how historic and geographic factors affected the expansion and development of Nebraska.

4.6  Students will trace Nebraska‚s 20th century.

4.7  Students will describe Nebraska‚s history from territory to statehood.

4.8  Students will identify and describe cultural holidays and important events in their community, Nebraska, and the United States.

4.9  Students will make a historical map of Nebraska and the surrounding region, including locations, such as: early forts, missions, settlements, cities, transportation routes, and migration patterns.

4.10  Students will analyze the migration patterns in Nebraska.

4.11  Students will identify significant individuals and historical events in their community and in Nebraska and explain their importance.

4.12  Students will  develop historical analytical skills by (using primary sources like artifacts, diaries, letters, photographs, art, documents, and newspapers; comparing historical figures and events with fictionalized ones).

4.13  Students will explain the interdependence of producers and consumers in a market economy by describing factors that have influenced consumer demand and describing how producers have used natural resources, human resources, and capital resources to produce goods and services in the past and the present.

4.14  Students will identify examples of making economic choices and explain what is given up when making a choice; distinguish between money and barter economics; explain the differences between using cash, checks, and credit to purchase goods and services. (4.14 continued)

4.15  Students will describe the economic specialization and interdependence involved in the production of goods and services in various types of economic systems in the past and present.

4.16  Students will explain in simple terms how opportunity, cost, scarcity, and supply and demand influence economic decision-making.

4.17  Students will explain the relationship between taxation and governmental goods and services.

4.18  Students will describe the impact of changing modes of transportation and communication on the distribution of goods and services.

4.19  Students will demonstrate map skills by construction a simple map of the North American continent, which will include the essential map elements of title, scale, key, directional indicator, and date.

4.20  Students will describe our nation as composed of states and locate the following on a map of the United States: Washington, D.C.; the states of Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Iowa, South Dakota, and Wyoming; major rivers, mountain ranges, and lakes in the United States.

4.21  Students will use the concepts of absolute locations, such as using grid systems, and relative location, such as direction, reference to neighboring states, and water features.

4.22 Students will distinguish between meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude and use the equator and prime meridian to identify the 4 hemispheres. ( North, South, East & West)

4.23  Students will classify regions with common characteristics, such as sandhills and plains using maps, tables, graphs, and charts.

4.24  Students will identify examples of the extension of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship in American history and the contributions of Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, African Americans, European Americans, Asian Americans, individuals, and groups.

4.25  Students will analyze, explain, and demonstrate the relationship among making laws, carrying out laws, and determining if laws have been violated.

4.26  Students will explain the interaction between rights and responsibilities; why we have rules, and constitutional mandates to protect rights and make sure responsibilities are carried out; consequences for violating them; and the role of citizenship in promoting them.

4.27  Students will compare and contrast Nebraska‚s Unicameral system with other state governments.

4.28  Students will identify representative leaders at government levels, such as mayor, governor, and president.
 

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