Social Studies Homework
Week of May 15, 2017
Social Studies Projects
Students will be reading about the particular ways of life of different Native American groups and the types of environment each group lived in.
Unit 1 Project Choices
1. A Native American Book
Write and illustrate a book about Native American groups discussed in this unit. Include drawings, charts, poems, and maps that describe each group's way of life and their surroundings.
Focus on two Native American groups in this unit. Compare and contrast the environments that affected their way of life and describe their villages, shelters, and sources of food, clothing, and tools.
Unit 2 Project Choices
1. Museum Exhibit (Can be done with a partner)
Many museums in the United States have historical exhibits that give information about explorers and colonies. Students will plan and build a museum exhibit to share information about important people, places, and events in the exploration and colonization of North America.
I'll be looking for:
Write an advertisement to persuade settlers to come to a new colony in North America. Support your position with evidence.
Unit 3 A Colonial Fair
Plan a display for a fair about daily life in one of the New England, Middle, or Southern Colonies.
Unit 4 A Colonial Newspaper
Publish a colonial newspaper that tells about the Revolutionary War.
Unit 5 Make a Time Line
Complete a time line that shows the nation's growth during the late 1700s and early 1800s.
Unit 6 Design a Scrapbook
Design a scrapbook about the Civil War.
Unit 1 Project Choices
1. A Native American Book
Write and illustrate a book about Native American groups discussed in this unit. Include drawings, charts, poems, and maps that describe each group's way of life and their surroundings.
- Entries should include interesting, complete details and descriptions.
- Entries should accurately reflect the environments in which Native American groups lived and how these environments affected the people's way of life.
- Entries should be creative and well executed.
- Illustrations and maps should be accurate.
- The book should be well-planned and organized.
Focus on two Native American groups in this unit. Compare and contrast the environments that affected their way of life and describe their villages, shelters, and sources of food, clothing, and tools.
Unit 2 Project Choices
1. Museum Exhibit (Can be done with a partner)
Many museums in the United States have historical exhibits that give information about explorers and colonies. Students will plan and build a museum exhibit to share information about important people, places, and events in the exploration and colonization of North America.
I'll be looking for:
- Exhibits that provide information about the most important people, places, and events.
- Exhibits fit the correct historical period and relate to the unit's Big Idea.
- Features are creative and well-written or well-executed.
- Illustrations and maps are accurate.
- Exhibit is well-planned and organized.
Write an advertisement to persuade settlers to come to a new colony in North America. Support your position with evidence.
- Describe the location of the colony.
- Tell why the colony was founded
- Describe life in the colony.
Unit 3 A Colonial Fair
Plan a display for a fair about daily life in one of the New England, Middle, or Southern Colonies.
- Decide how you will show what life was like there.
- Your display should focus on how people lived, governed, worshipped, and worked.
Unit 4 A Colonial Newspaper
Publish a colonial newspaper that tells about the Revolutionary War.
- Describe events leading up to the war.
- Tell how the colonists won their freedom.
- Decide which people, places, and events in to include.
Unit 5 Make a Time Line
Complete a time line that shows the nation's growth during the late 1700s and early 1800s.
- Choose events in the nations' history that resulted in political, economic, geographic, or population growth.
- Illustrate these events with pictures.
Unit 6 Design a Scrapbook
Design a scrapbook about the Civil War.
- Make drawings and paintings of people and events of the Civil War.
- Write captions, stories, and poems to help tell the history of the Civil War.
- Draw maps of places where important events of the Civil War took place.