Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Coco's 4th Grade Curriculum- Social Studies

My friend Sherri and I were on the phone and it came to me... Instead of just doing US History, why couldn't we do Explorers?!! I started on www.enchantedlearning.com and went through their list of explorers (that comes with at least one worksheet per explorer and a printable bio)

We are definitely looking for any resources we can get on this one.

1) Christopher Newport
2)Ponce de Leon
3) Vitus J Bering
4) Robert Burke and William Willis
5) Vasco de Gama
6) Eric the Red and Leif Ericson
7) Christopher Columbus (Well it is Columbus Day Week)- have worksheets from the CC
8) Robert Ballard
9) Amerigo Vespucci
10) Henry Hudson - we have a activity book about him I found at a yard sale
11) Roald Amundsen
12) Magellan
13) Kit Carson
14) Richard Byrd
15) Robert La Salle
16) Alvar Nunez
17) Jaques Cousteau - have two worksheets from the CC and a field trip to the aquarium
18) Neil Armstrong - have worksheets from the CC
19) Buzz Aldrin- have a field trip to the space center planned
20) Sally Ride - have a biography book and a few worksheets from the CC
21) Sue Hendricson
22) Pedro Alvares Cabral
23) James Cook
24) Douglas Mawson
25) Sir Francis Drake
26) Daniel Boone
27) James Smith- have a few worksheets from the CC
28) Lewis and Clark- this is Coco's obsession! We have posters, books, the board game...
29) Robert Scott
30) Sir Walter Raleigh
31) Mae Jemison
32) Marco Polo
33) Jaques Cartier
34) Mary Kingsley
35) Jean Le Perouse
36) Petre Stryvesant
37) Hernan Cortes
38) Final Review and testing.

I have created a lapbook style worksheet for this so she will have a Bio on Mondays, a worksheet from enchantedlearning, a worksheet from me, a vocab sheet with a crossword or word scramble (Gotta love www.theteacherscorner.net) and we have lots and lots of maps that I also got from enchantedlearnig.
Typically we test every 10 weeks and I have made those too.

Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions? (or materials I can borrow?)

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