Grade 4 Social Studies Suggested Web Links
Unit 1 Our Country's Geography
Lesson 2, 3- http://www.maps.com/learn/games/ (This site has
online map activities.)
http://www.maps.com/learn/101-content/skills.html (This site offers
explanations for many map skills.)
http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/ (This site lets
you enter the name of any place and it will find it on the map.)
Lesson 6 - Have students visit the following website to see
descriptions of climates for seven regions of the United States.
Be sure to visit the website before using them with students.
(Technology LG-5, 6, Indicator 14)
http://weathereye.kgan.com/cadet/climate/climate.html
Lesson 10 - http://www.mdkidspage.org (Maryland's Kids Page) Click on Geography to find information about Maryland's geographic characteristics.
Lesson 11 - http://www.mdkidspage.org (Maryland's Kids Page) Click on Geography to find information about Maryland's geographic characteristics.
Lesson 13 - Have students visit the following website to learn
more about the economy of Maryland. Be sure to visit the website
before using it with students. (Technology LG-5, 6, Indicator
14)
http://www.mdkidspage.org (Maryland's Kids Page) Click on Economics.
Unit 2 The Earliest Americans
Lesson 1 - For additional information about the first Americans,
visit the following sites at http://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/curric/elem/Esocstud.html.
Social Studies- Grade 4: Origins
All About Glaciers
Peopling the Americas
Lesson 2 Learn about the culture of the Anasazi at http://sipapu.gsu.edu
or complete a search using the key word "Anasazi."
Lesson 3- Have students visit the following website to learn more about the Eastern woodland Indians. http://www.germantown.k12.il.us/html/woodland2.html
Lesson 5 - Have the students go online to take a virtual tour of an Eastern Woodlands community circa 1550 in Maryland by connecting to http://nativetech.org/scenes/index.html.
Lesson 6 - Have the students go online to learn more about
Native Americans in Maryland by connecting to the following websites:
o Maryland with Pride website at www.pride2.org, navigate through
the Schools section to Maryland with Pride. Go to the Faculty
room and select the lesson plan on Maryland Indians.
o Maryland Government website kids' page at www.mdkidspage.org.
Unit 3 A Time of Exploration
Lesson 1 - Have students visit one or more of the following
websites to learn more about Christopher Columbus.
http://www.mariner.org/age/columbus.html
http://www1.minn.net/~keithp/
Unit 4 European Settlement
Lesson 8 - Examine "Captain John Smith's Map of Virginia." You can use Resource Sheet 25, text p. 162, or access the map online at http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vcdh/jamestown/jsmap1.html. This map is best viewed online.
Lesson 13 Find the charter of the Massachusetts Bay colony online by searching for the key word Massachusetts Bay Charter. Currently it may be found at http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/mass03.htm
Lesson 16 Students may view the transcripts of the Trial of Anne Hutchinson at http://personal.pitnet.net/primarysources/hutchinson.html.
Lesson 18 Students may find the original document of Georgia's Royal Charter at http://www.sos.state.ga.us/archives/oe/images/charter/jpg.
Lesson 19
o Have students read the entire letter by Richard Frethorne, available
in old English or modern version on the Virtual Jamestown website.
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vcdh/jamestown
o An indenture contract students may examine is "Indenture
Contract, Type B, Middlesex County, January 1683-May 1684."
http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/speccol/sc2200/sc2221/000019/0000/d011675a.gi
o Students may read the entire account Gottlieb Mittelberger:
On the Misfortune of Indentured Servants (1735) at http://www.jmu.edu/madison/servan.html.
o Have students examine two original documents available from
the Maryland State Archives: Education and Outreach, Documents
for the Classroom: "The Strength of Our Diversity-Multiculturalism
in Maryland History" "A direction for choice of
servant" MSA SC 2221-19-12, p.1 and "The form of binding
a servant" MSA SC 2221-19-12, pp. 2-3 www.mdarchives.state.md.us/homepage/html/educ.html