Social Studies Units

Unit One Living in Communities	Unit Two Looking Back to the Past	Unit Three Building a Government
Chapter 1- Understanding Communities	Chapter 3 - A Native American Community at Mesa Verde	Chapter 6 - A New Country is Born
Chapter 2 - Communities and Geography	Chapter 4 - An English Colony at Jamestown	Chapter 7 - Countries have Capitals
	Chapter 5 - A Spanish Mission in San Francisco	Chapter 8 - Citizens Make Communities Work

Unit Four Communities on the Move	Unit Five Working Together
Chapter 9 - Building New Lives	Chapter 11 - Work and Money
Chapter 10 - Changing the Way People Live	Chapter 12 - Producing Goods

Explore six different biomes: grassland, rain forest, taiga, deciduous forest, desert, and tundra. Learn about each regions features, its plants, and animals.

Visit Mt. Everest ... see a mountain up close.

Develop your map skills: Map Adventures with Nikki

Virtual Field Trips: Explore a desert, farm, prairie, volcano while sitting comfortably at home.

Take a closer look at farming in the United States. Visit Farm School for a close look at farming, or Sheep USA, or a Dairy Farm ,or visit At The Farm for more information related to farming.

Geo-Globe Interactive Geography: Explore the world, learn about strange and familiar features of the planet.... Curious ?

Learning Adventures in Citizenship from New York City to your town

To the Totem Forests ... coastal villages

North American Prehistory explores the big game hunters, early North American cultures, North American Petroglyphs, and more from the distant past of North America.

Native Peoples of Minnesota: Dakota, Lakota, Nakota, & Anishinabe

California - Intermountain Culture; California Indians

Learn about Eastern Woodland Indians.

Visit the Lakota people of the plains.

First Americans For Grade Scholars: Focus on Dine, Muskogee, Tlingit, Lakota, and Haudenosaunee Tribes

Southwest Native Americans; a closer look at the Apache, Hopi, Navajo, Pueblo, and Zuni tribes.

Find out more about the indigenous people or Native Americans of North America.

The First Americans: Grade 3 Indian Project that explores 5 Native American Cultures, Northwest Culture, California-Intermountain Culture, Plains Culture, Southwest Culture, and Woodland Culture.

Native American shelters

Homes of the Past: The Archeology of an Iroquoian Longhouse; explore an Iroquois village and learn about the Longhouse.

Artic Studies Center provides information and background about native Alaskan people, explores the cultures, and the traditions of these people.

Native American Technology and Art: Look at the art work of Native Americans, learn about their games and toys, try a few foods and recipes at home, and read some poetry and stories.

Pow Wows are an important Native American cultural event .

Southern POW WOWs

Thanksgiving and Pilgrims: Choose from Plymouth Thanksgiving Story, Recipes, Indian Corn, and Corn Husk Doll

Take a Virtual tour of Plimoth Plantation.

Thanksgiving Resources: provides links to sites that explore history of the first nations, Miles Standish, Nauset, Plimoth Planatation, Mayflower, Wampanoags, and more.