CONTENT CONNECTION WORKSHEET Grade 4
Theme Title
EXPLORING OUR WORLD
Content Connection
Theme #6 Lesson #27
Social Studies
Essential Questions
 What can we learn about the physical geography of Utah and how it has changed over
time?
Resources
Main Selection and Leveled Books
 Grand Canyon A Trail Through Time
 Hawaii: Visiting a Volcano (BelowLevel)
 Yellowstone: A Blast from the Past
(On-Level)
 Great Barrier Reef: A Colorful World
(Advanced)
 A Trip Through the United States
(ELL)
 Over the Edge (Comprehension)
 The Rock Cycle (Paired Selection)
Core Program Vocabulary (Tier
II)
 ancient
 distant
 sentries
 glistens
 embedded
 cascading
 weary
 eroding
Other Resources
 Classroom Library
Cliff Hanger
Average
The Winking, Blinking Sea
 Grand Canyon National Park
 A Desert Scrapbook: Dawn to Dusk in
the Sonoran Desert
 The Last River: John Wesley Powell &
the Colorado River Exploring
Expedition
Content Vocabulary (Tier III)
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archaeology
artifacts
communication
erosion
excavations
landforms
natural resources
regions
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seismic activity
transportation
tourism
Comprehension Focus Strategy
 Understand explicit and implicit ideas
in nonfiction text
 Monitor comprehension by
summarizing
Comprehension Focus Skill
 Recognize an unstated main idea in a
passage or selection
 Identify details that support the main
idea
Connecting Social Studies Standard
 Standard I: Students will understand
the relationship between the physical
geography in Utah and human life
Objective
 1.b. Examine the forces at work in
creating the physical geography of Utah
(e.g. erosion, seismic activity, climate
change)
Intended Learning Outcomes
 Students will understand the physical geography of Utah through nature’s causes
Social Studies Activities t0 Develop Social Studies Concepts