Transcript Ohio Academic Content Standards Social Studies

Ohio Academic
Content Standards
Social Studies
Ed 629
Katie Dempsey
Abby Nussbaum
Stephanie Morgan
Ohio Academic Content Standards
History
 People in Societies
 Geography
 Economics
 Government
 Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities
 Social Studies Skills and Methods
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Ohio Academic Content Standards
Midwest Region of the
United Sates
 Grade 5
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History
History Activities
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Create a scrapbook of the Midwest region. The
scrapbook should have a map of the region, Native
Americans from this region, a report about someone
special in this region etc.
Create a timeline of important events to the Midwest
region.
Read about explorers for the internet and determine why
many of them went on explorations.
Watch a video clip on the history of the Midwest region
Write a report about an important political figure to the
Midwest region.
History Websites
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Zoom Explorers
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/indexh.sht
ml
Timeline
http://www.animatedatlas.com/timeline.html
Information on Midwest region
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwestern_United_States
The Midwest
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0875014.html
Native Americans-Shawnee
http://www.geocities.com/bigorrin/shawnee_kids.htm
People in Societies
People in Societies Activities
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After learning about the explorers, students will learn about the
different types of immigrants who settled in the area. Students will
create a collage of one culture that can be found in the Midwest.
The collage should include pictures of customs, traditions, clothing,
and food.
Students will learn about the weather of the Midwest and then will
create a chart of how the weather affects the lives of the people
living in the Midwest. This includes the crops that are grown, the
weather patterns like tornadoes, and other information weather
activities.
Students will learn about the crops that are grown in the Midwest
and how the Midwest contributes to the world’s food supply.
Students will research a person from the Midwest who has had an
impact on the United States. Students will create an autobiography
of the person citing the person's contributions to the Midwest.
Students will discover one food
recipe that is popular in the
MIDWEST
Midwest. Students will cook
CULTURE
the dish and share it with the
class.
People in Societies
Websites
Our Regions
http://www.glc.k12.ga.us/BuilderV03/LPTools/LPShar
ed/lpdisplay.asp?Session_Stamp=&LPID=37460
 Origin Of Our Food
http://www.glc.k12.ga.us/BuilderV03/LPTools/LPShar
ed/lpdisplay.asp?Session_Stamp=&LPID=37858
 History of the Midwest
http://usa.usembassy.de/travel-regions.htm#midwest
 Food of the Midwest
http://www.foodbycountry.com/Spain-to-ZimbabweCumulative-Index/United-States-Midwest-Region.html
 People of the Midwest
http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0875014.html
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Geography
Geography Activities
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Students will complete a worksheet labeling the
states in the Midwest Region.
Students will learn the states in the Midwest by
putting a puzzle of the states together.
Students will learn the capitals of states in the
Midwest by matching the capitals with the correct
states after listening to School House Rocks states
song.
Students will learn the landforms of the Midwest
by reading about the physical characteristics of the
region. To expand on the landforms, students will
create a guidebook to one important landmark in
the Midwest. Students will compare the landforms
of the Midwest to the rest of North America.
Students will be assigned a state in the Midwest
and will be required to present the state to the
class by sharing location, flag, capital, landforms,
etc.
Geography Websites
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Regions Defined
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/rrhtml/regdef.html
US Midwest Region Map
http://www.eduplace.com/ss/maps/pdf/midwestus.pdf
A Puzzle of the Regions
http://tapestry.usgs.gov/puzzle/default.html
Archaeological Parks in the Midwest
http://www.uark.edu/misc/aras/heartland.html
US Midwest Culture and History Locations
http://www.iexplore.com/usmap/Midwest/mw_culture/Cultural
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Midwest States and Capitals
http://www.50states.com/
Economics
Economics Activities
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Students will learn about supply and demand by “bidding” on a candy
item. Students will be asked why they were willing to “pay” such a
high price, and would they have done the same if they knew there
were more?
Students will learn about division of labor by making construction paper
hot air balloons. A few students will work alone and several groups will
be working in the division of labor system.
Students will learn about providers of goods vs. services. They will
each receive an index card with a profession on it, and class discussion
will be administered to show interdependence.
Students will learn the value of U.S. dollars compared to Canadian
dollars by using a conversion tool online.
Students will learn about the distribution of goods. Each group of
students will receive a bag full of “goods” and discuss how they will
distribute amongst themselves.
Economic Websites
Defines production, distribution and consumption
http://www.tutor2u.net/economics/gcse/revision_notes/
basics_production_distribution_consumption.htm
 Economics A-Z
http://www.economist.com/research/Economics/
 Saving money and the banking system
http://www.kidsbank.com/index_3.asp
 Coin minting
http://www.usmint.gov/kids/
 Exchange Rate info. and conversion
http://www.oanda.com/convert/classic
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Government
Government Activities
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Watch the Schoolhouse Rock “Three Ring Government
Video” and follow along with lyrics
Complete a packet on the first 10 presidents and their
rules in create American.
Play a game called “20 questions” about the US
presidents.
Have each group (3-5) create a poster board about a
branch of the government.
Have students become exports on different political
parties in early American. They must be able to defend
their reasons for starting a new party and be able to
explain it to others.
Government Websites
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Branches of the Government
http://library.thinkquest.org/J0110221/
Past Presidents of the United States
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/
Know-Nothing Party
http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=911
Whig Party
http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=1004
Federalist Party
http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=887
Anti Federalist Party
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9007803/AntiFederalists
Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities
Citizenship Rights and
Responsibilities Activities
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Students will learn about rights and responsibilities by
making a T-chart of these.
Students will learn about aspects of civic responsibilities
by role playing.
Students will learn about voicing opinion on public issues
and policies by writing letters to a local newspaper.
Students will learn about equal opportunity by
comparing/contrasting copies of their school’s policy to
another policy found online.
Students will learn about legal rights and responsibilities.
In groups, they will each research a legal right or
responsibility and present it to the class.
Citizenship Rights and
Responsibilities Websites
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Historical Documents
http://bensguide.gpo.gov/3-5/documents/index.html
Citizenship
http://bensguide.gpo.gov/3-5/citizenship/index.html
Department of labor, for kids
http://www.dol.gov/dol/audience/aud-kidsyouth.htm
Rights vs. Responsibilities Worksheet
http://www.thinkequal.com/page.cfm/link=82
Student Voices
http://studentvoices.org/Columbus/StudentResources.aspx?LocId=13
Social Studies Skills and
Methods
Social Studies Skills and Methods
Activities
Use problem solving skills to solve a problem
from American History such as, which political
party to join?
 Read a chapter on the Midwest and summarize
key points in your own words.
 Use a variety of maps to examine the aspects of
the Midwest: states, capitals, elevations, and
landforms.
 Students will create graphs showing the climate
of the Midwest. Students will explain how the
landforms, vegetation, and people affect the
Midwest.
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Social Studies Skills and Methods
Websites
Ohio History Central- To find political parties
www.Ohiohistorycenteral.org
 Midwest Climate and Temperatures
http://www.wunderground.com/US/Region/Midw
est/Temperature.html
 Information on States of Midwest
http://maps.howstuffworks.com/maps-of-themidwest.htm
 Maps of Midwest
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/usa/statesb
w/regions.shtml
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