🗺️ 4th Grade · Social StudiesD2.His.2.3-5Unit 2: Our state’s history

Native nations of our state

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🎯 Objective: Students research the Native nations of their state.

Lesson outline

  1. Map.
  2. Research.
  3. Share.
  4. Exit: one nation.

Lesson 1 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.2.3-5

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”.

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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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