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II Subject Matter Outline

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Subject Matter Outline 
 

 

Pre-Requisite Knowledge:

(See the curriculum map from the previous grade)

 

 

  • Skills in Social Studies:
    • Understanding communities
    • Culture
    • Concept of change
    • Needs, wants, scarcity
    • Significance of the flag
    • Understanding people celebrate different holidays

 

 

  • Skills in ELA:
    • Use picture clues
    • Look for little words in big words
    • Think about if a story makes sense
    • Sound it out
    • Go back and reread
    • Using graphic organizers
    • Sequencing
    • Reading different genres
    • Narrative writing
    • Listening and speaking respectfully and appropriately
    • Difference between fact and opinion

 

 

  • Skills in Technology
    • To research using the internet and encyclopedia CD-ROM
    • To use the internet in a safe and responsible way
    • To use a graphic organizer to increase productivity and creativity
    • To collaborate in constructing a technology enhanced project using word processing, drawing tools and/or multimedia presentations and share it in email communications.
    • Use productivity tools to collaborate, publish and interact with peers.
    • Developing a positive attitude toward technology and insight as to its lifelong uses.

 

 

  • I will use KWL Charts, Pre-assessment games, and didactic questioning to assess the student’s prior knowledge of the content.

 

 

 

Content Analysis:

 

I. Where is the Rainforest?

 

     1. Tropical Rainforests are located near the equator.

     2. Map vs. Globe

     3. Name and Identify the Continents and Oceans

     4. Parts of a Map (compass rose, latitude, longitude, scale, key, etc.)

 

II. The Rainforest

     1. Characteristics of the Tropical Rainforest

    • Lots of Rain
    • Humidity
    • Warm Temperatures
    • No Seasons

     2. Layers of the Rainforest: Forest Floor

     3. Layers of the Rainforest: Understory

     4. Layers of the Rainforest: Canopy

     5. Layers of the Rainforest: Emergent Layer

 

III. People of the Rainforest

     1. Key Vocabulary terms

    • culture, civilization, beliefs, tradition, etc.

     2. Indigenous People vs. Amerindians

    • Culture, Beliefs, Traditions of these people
    • Day in the Life of these people

     3. Similarities and Differences

     4. Slash and Burn Technique

 

IV. Products of the Rainforest

     1. Needs vs. Wants

     2. Specific Products from the Rainforest

     3. Symbiotic relationship between Americans and the rainforest

     4. Impact Americans have had on the rainforest, its products, and its people over time

 

V. Save the Rainforest Information

     1. Reasons for destruction

     2. Reasons to save the rainforest

     3. Ways to save the rainforest

     4. Facts about the rainforest

 

 

 

Key Social Studies Concepts:

 

  • History
    • Change involves the basic alterations in things, events, and ideas.
    • Culture means the patterns of human behavior that includes ideas, beliefs, values, artifacts, and ways of making a living which any society transmits to succeeding generations to meet its fundamental needs.
    • Empathy means the ability to understand others through being able to identify in one’s self responses similar to the experiences, behaviors, and responses of others.
    • Identity means awareness of one’s own values, attitudes, and capabilities as an individual and as a member of different groups.
    • Interdependence means reliance upon others in mutually beneficial interactions and exchanges.

 

  • Geography
    • Places and Regions—The identities and lives of individuals and peoples are rooted in particular places and in those human constructs called regions.
    • Physical SystemsPhysical processes shape Earth’s surface and interact with plant and animal life to create, sustain, and modify ecosystems.
    • Human SystemsPeople are central to geography in that human activities help shape Earth’s surface, human settlements and structures are part of Earth’s surface, and humans compete for control of Earth’s surface.
    • Environment and SocietyThe physical environment is modified by human activities, largely as a consequence of the ways in which human societies value and use Earth’ s natural resources, and human activities are also influenced by Earth’s physical features and processes.

 

 

  • Economics
    • Needs and Wants refer to those goods and services that are essential such as food, clothing, and shelter (needs), and those good and services that people would like to have to improve the quality of their lives, (i.e., wants—education, security, health care, entertainment).
    • Economic Systems include traditional, command, market, and mixed systems. Each must answer the three basic economic questions: What goods and services shall be produced and in what quantities? How shall these goods and services be produced? For whom shall goods and services be produced?
    • Factors of Production are human, natural, and capital resources which when combined become various goods and services (e.g., How land, labor, and capital inputs are used to pro- duce food.).

 

 

  • Civics, Citizenship, and Government
    • Nation-state means a geographic/political organization uniting people by a common government.
    • Citizenship means membership in a community (neighborhood, school, region, state, nation, world) with its accompanying rights, responsibilities, and dispositions.
    • Government means the “formal institutions and processes of a politically organized society with authority to make, enforce, and interpret laws and other binding rules about matters of common interest and concern. Government also refers to the group of people, acting in formal political institutions at national, state, and local levels, who exercise decision making power or enforce laws and regulations.” (Taken from: Civics Framework for the 1998 National Assessment of Educational Progress, NAEP Civics Consensus Project, The National Assessment Governing Board, United States Department of Education, p. 19).
    • Decision Making means the processes used to “monitor and influence public and civic life by working with others, clearly articulating ideals and interests, building coalitions, seeking consensus, negotiating compromise, and managing conflict.” (Taken from: Civics Framework, p. 18).
    • Civic Values refer to those important principles that serve as the foundation for our democratic form of government. These values include justice, honesty, self-discipline, due process, equality, majority rule with respect for minority rights, and respect for self, others, and property.

 

 

 

Skills:

 

  • problem-solving skills
  • writing skills
  • research skills
  • vocabulary building skills
  • decision making skills
  • geography skills
  • map skills
  • economic skills (needs vs. wants)
  • creative thinking skills
  • group work skills
  • verbal skills

 

 

 

Vocabulary Words:

 

  • Link to the vocabulary sheets:
  • Additional Vocabulary Not On Lists:
    • Needs
    • Wants
    • Scarcity
    • Goods
    • Services
    • Producer
    • Consumer
    • Humidity
    • Canopy Layer
    • Understory Layer
    • Forest Floor Layer
    • Emergent Layer

 

 

 

Generalizations: 

 

  • There are two types of rainforests: temperate and tropical. 
  • Tropical Rainforests are usually located near the equator and have four main characteristics: lots of rain, humidity, warm temperatures and no seasons. 
  • There are four layers to the rainforest: forest floor, understory, canopy and emergent layer. 
  • The largest rainforest in the world is the Amazon Rainforest. 
  • There is a difference between needs and wants. Needs include things one depends on for survival and wants include things that are “extra” and not needed for survival. 
  • People of the rainforest have different cultures depending on their location and are either traditional people or Amerindians. 
  • A Shaman is a medicine doctor.
  • People in America depend on the rainforest for many different things including food, medicine, oxygen and shelter. 
  • People of the rainforest and people of the United States have an interdependence relationship. 
  • The rainforest supplies products that we use on a regular basis including bananas, mangos, chocolate, and gum. 
  • The rainforest contains over half of the worlds animals and plants. Some have not even been discovered yet. 
  • People of the rainforest hold different customs, traditions, beliefs and ways of living than the people of the United States. 
  • There are 7 continents, 5 oceans, lines of longitude and latitude, an equator, a key, a compass rose and a scale on a world map. 
  • The rainforest needs to be saved because it provides oxygen, medicine, and goods for humans as well as being a home to half of the worlds plants and animals. 
  • Rainforests are becoming extinct through logging, mining, oil and gas extraction, cattle ranching, agriculture (cash crops) and the development of land for the government to sell to corporations for production warehouses.
  • There are seven ways students can help save the rainforest. 

 

 

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