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🗺️ 4th Grade · Social StudiesD2.His.3.3-5Unit 2: Our state’s history

Becoming a state

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🎯 Objective: Students learn how and when their state joined the Union.

Lesson outline

  1. Timeline.
  2. Read.
  3. Discuss.
  4. Exit: statehood year.

Lesson 3 of 4 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

D2.His.3.3-5

C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards (NCSS) — typical US grade-level themes

🏁 Unit goals

  • Describe Native peoples, exploration, settlement and statehood of their state

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

📅 Date calculator🦫 Encyclopedia: Countries🎉 Holidays⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Our state’s history”

  1. Native nations of our state
  2. Explorers and settlers
  3. Becoming a state
  4. Our state today

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