🌎 4th grade Social Studies

Units

1. Unit 1

   🌐Latitude & Longitude

   Using latitude and longitude to find places in California and the world, and the poles, equator, prime meridian, tropics and hemispheres.

   Learning standard: 4.1.1; 4.1.2 · using latitude and longitude to find places, and the poles, equator, prime meridian, tropics and hemispheres

2. Unit 2

   🏔️California's Land & Regions

   Sacramento and the coast, mountains, Central Valley and desert regions; the Pacific, rivers, valleys and mountain passes; and how land and climate shape where Californians live and work.

   Learning standard: 4.1.3; 4.1.4; 4.1.5 · the state capital and regions of California, its ocean, rivers, valleys and passes, and how communities vary with land and climate

3. Unit 3

   🧺California Indian Nations

   Some of California's many Indian nations, such as the Chumash, Tongva, Ohlone, Kumeyaay, Cahuilla, Mojave, Pomo, Yurok, Hupa, Karuk, Miwok and Yokuts: where they live, how they use and care for the land, trade, and tribal governments today. Light, in the present tense, and with nothing sacred or ceremonial.

   Learning standard: 4.2.1 · the major nations of California Indians, where they live, their economies, and how they depended on, adapted to and changed the environment

4. Unit 4

   🔔Missions, Presidios & Ranchos

   Early explorers, the Spanish missions, presidios and pueblos, the great harm the mission system did to California Indian peoples and their resistance, Mexican independence and the rancho era. Told plainly and balanced, with California Indian nations as living communities today.

   Learning standard: 4.2.2; 4.2.3; 4.2.4; 4.2.5; 4.2.6; 4.2.7; 4.2.8 · early routes and settlements, Spanish colonization and the missions, daily life for native and nonnative people, the Franciscans' changes, and Mexican rule and the ranchos

5. Unit 5

   ⛏️Gold Rush & Statehood

   Routes to California, the Gold Rush and its effects on settlements, newcomers and California Indians, Biddy Mason and other women of early California, the Bear Flag Revolt, the 1849 constitution and statehood in 1850.

   Learning standard: 4.3.1; 4.3.2; 4.3.3; 4.3.4; 4.3.5 · early settlements, routes to California, the effects of the Gold Rush, women who built early California, and how California became a state

6. Unit 6

   🚂A Growing State

   The Pony Express, telegraph and transcontinental railroad, immigration and migration (including the Chinese Exclusion Act, Angel Island and the Dust Bowl), World War II, California's water system, public education and new industries from farming to technology.

   Learning standard: 4.4.1; 4.4.3; 4.4.4; 4.4.5; 4.4.6; 4.4.7; 4.4.8; 4.4.9 · how California became an agricultural and industrial power: transportation, immigration and migration, the Depression and World War II, new industries, water, education and influential Californians

7. Unit 7

   🏛️Governing California

   The US and California constitutions, the governor, the 40-member Senate and 80-member Assembly, the state Supreme Court, counties, cities, school and special districts, tribal governments, ballot propositions and which powers belong to each level of government.

   Learning standard: 4.5.1; 4.5.2; 4.5.3; 4.5.4; 4.5.5 · the US and California constitutions, the structures of federal and state government, and California's counties, cities and districts

8. Unit 8

   ⏳California Through Time

   Ordering events in California's history, from the first European ships and the missions to the Gold Rush, statehood, the railroad and the 1900s.

   Learning standard: 4.2.3; 4.3.5; 4.4.2 · putting California's history in order, from Spanish colonization and statehood to the state's growth