RESOURCES FOR TEACHING SOCIAL STUDIES
Grade 4
Units - One per quarter
Unit 1: Maryland: The First People
Unit 2: Maryland: From Settlement to State (1630-1800)
Unit 3: Maryland: Growth and Change (1800-1875)
Unit 4: Modern Maryland (1870-Present)
Curriculum and Assessment
 Teacher resource guides can be ordered through IFAS Stores, the HCPSS
purchasing system. The principal’s secretary can order copies – order
#39520018
 Teacher Resource Guides contain lessons for all objectives.
 Assessments are optional and are housed on the Document Repository
(DR) – an electronic storage device accessed through the HCPSS CLC,
an internal email and communication system.
 Student Resource Booklets that contain student worksheets are available.
They are sent automatically to schools to the attention of the Principal’s
Secretary prior to the start of each quarter. If additional copies are needed
they should be copied at the school.
Resources Housed on the Document Repository
 Essential Curriculum objectives
 Lessons
 Teacher and student resource sheets
 Lesson quizzes and end-of-unit tests
 Answer keys to quizzes and tests
 PowerPoint slideshows for lesson delivery (inside the multi-media folder
within the lesson folder
 Lessons that integrate the use of technology
 Alternative texts and students worksheets are available for some lessons.
These are provided for below grade level readers.
 Transparencies that can be printed using a color printer and the
appropriate type of transparency film for the type of printer used
 Forms and rubrics for assessing students’ groupwork, performances and
the Student Resource Booklet (SRB) – located in the folder titled: G4
Effective Assessment.
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RESOURCES FOR TEACHING SOCIAL STUDIES
Resources Housed in the School Media Center
 Grade 4 Social Studies Transparency Set – a binder containing color
transparencies used in lesson delivery. Every school has at least 2 sets. It
is the responsibility of teachers to return all transparencies to the binders
in order, and return the binder to the media center at the end of the school
year. Missing transparencies can be printed using a color printer and the
appropriate type of transparency film for the type of printer used – the
transparencies are available on the DR. Alternatively, schools can email
the transparencies as PDF files to a commercial copy center to have
replacement transparencies made. If the latter option is selected, school
funds can be used to cover the cost.
 NGS Picture Pack: Native Americans 1 – Used in quarter 1. A binder of
color transparencies used in lesson delivery. Every school has at least 2
sets. It is the responsibility of teachers to return all transparencies to the
binders in order, and return the binder to the media center at the end of
the unit.
 NGS Picture Pack: The Age of Exploration - Used in quarter 1. A binder
of color transparencies used in lesson delivery. Every school has at least
2 sets. It is the responsibility of teachers to return all transparencies to the
binders in order, and return the binder to the media center at the end of
the unit.
 Digital Atlas of Maryland – produced by the Maryland Geographic
Alliance. A CD-ROM of digital pictures of Maryland’s Regions.
Optional lesson plans are also on the CD.
 Interactive Geography CD - produced by the Maryland Geographic
Alliance. Interactive games for learning about the geographic features of
Maryland.
Texts Housed in Grade 4 Team Areas
 The Maryland Adventure, Chapelle, Suzanne Ellery, Utah: Gibbs-Smith,
2001 ISBN: 087905896X student textbook
 America in The Time of Columbus, Isaacs, Sally Senzell, Chicago:
Heinemann Library, 1998 ISBN: 1575729334 set of 25
 Encounter, Yolen, Jane, New York: Harcourt Brace, 1992 4 copies
 The Iroquois and the Cherokee, Searl, Duncan, New York: Newbridge
Educational Publishing, 2005 6 pk.
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 People of the Plains, Granahan, Shirley, Newbridge Educational
Publishing, 2005 6 pk.
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