EDEL453 Spring2014 JanisGommeCampbell Unit Plan Wednesday

Unit Plan: 3What Were the Immigrant's Contributions?

Lesson Plan for WednesdayGrade: 4thSocial Studies Strand: History

Submitted By: Janis Gomme-Campbell

EDEL 453: Teaching Elementary School Social Science

Nevada State College – Spring 2014

Instructor: Karen Powell

B. Summary of the Lesson Plan :

SWBAT identify what immigrant's contributions were to Nevada. SW understand the pioneer's trade relationships with the Plains Indians.

Unit Plan 3 strand: History submitted by: Janis Gomme-Campbell

C. Basic Information:

Grade Level: 4th grade

Time to Complete this Lesson: 50 min

Groupings: individual, partners, group

D. Materials:

Text: Heading West: Life With the Pioneers By: Pat McCarthy.

Text: Houghton Mifflin, "Early Settlers", Pgs. 206-207

Hand-out: "Notable Pioneers in History"

Double-bubble map work-sheet.

pencil

E. Objectives:

o NV State Social Studies Standards

H1.4.5. Identify contributions of immigrants in Nevada.

o Student-Friendly Standards

H1.4.5. I can identify contributions of immigrants in Nevada.

F. Vocabulary

homestead- a piece of land given to someone so that they may settle and farm there.

reservation- land set aside by the government for the Indians.

G. Procedure:

1. TW read-a-loud text: Heading West: Life With the Pioneers, first having students predict what story is about through cover illustration. Predictions will be made throughout story.

2. TW distribute sheet with photos of the contributions that pioneer immigrants made to society.

3. SW individually create a double-bubble map. "Pioneers" will be in the center of circle. For the outer circle, SW brainstorm things the pioneers did that contributed to society.

4. TW ask key questions pertaining to the book: "What did we say were some of the things the pioneers did to be able to survive in the harsh environment?" "How did they help each other?" "What was traded?" This will spur ideas for the double-bubble map.

5. TW coral-read with students out of Houghton Mifflin text: "Early Settlers" pages 206-207. TW discuss "Talk About It" section of page 207.

6. SW complete a written paragraph (see "closure" below)

H. Assessment:

What will you use to measure student understanding?

I will ask questions of the group as an informal assessment (see procedure #4 above) I will evaluate closure paragragh.

I. Closure: SW write a paragraph: "Would you have enjoyed living in the early 1880s?" Why or why not?"

Notable Pioneers in History

Nevada State College EDEL 453 - Spring 2014 Karen Powell- Instructor page 2


In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson guided a splendid piece of foreign

diplomacy through the U.S. Senate: the purchase of Louisiana territory from France. After the Louisiana Purchase

Treaty was made, Jefferson initiated an exploration of the newly purchased land and the territory beyond the

"great rock mountains" in the West.

Jefferson chose his personal secretary, Meriwether Lewis, an intelligent and literate man who also possessed skills

as a frontiersman. Lewis in turn solicited the help of William Clark, whose abilities as draftsman and frontiersman

were even stronger. Together they collected a diverse military Corps of Discovery that would be able to

undertake a two-year journey to the great ocean.

Jefferson hoped that Lewis and Clark would find a water route linking the Columbia and Missouri rivers. This water

link would connect the Pacific Ocean with the Mississippi River system, thus giving the new western land access to

port markets out of the Gulf of Mexico and to eastern cities along the Ohio River and its minor tributaries.

Alice Fletcher (1838-1923) was a pioneer ethnologist and leader in the movement to bring Native Americans into the mainstream of white society, Fletcher was nearly unique among her peers for putting her ideas into practice as an administrator of Indian policy in the field.



Robert Fulton invented the steamboat.

Robert Fulton invented the first steamboat. He displayedhis boat for the first timeon the Hudson River banks.

Hudson Rive Robert Fulton invented the steamboat. He displayed his new invention on the banks of the

Mark Twain, (Samuel Clemmens) wrote many novels: the first was: Roughing It (1872), an autobiographical account of his years in the West told in the humorous style of his travel writing. Clemens' best work was especially evident in the novels set in his boyhood world beside the Mississippi River, Tom Sawyer (1876) and his masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884).

Mark Twain



James Knox Polk(1795-1849) was known as the expansionist eleventh President of the United States, James K. Polk was perhaps more responsible than any other single person for setting the boundaries of what came to be the American West.

James K. Polk

As head of the Mormon Church and architect of the Mormon colony in Utah, Brigham Young (1801-1877) was almost sole author of one of the most important chapters in the history of the American West.

Brigham Young

At one time the absolute ruler of what amounted to a private kingdom along the Sacramento River, John Sutter (1803-1880) saw his immense wealth and power overrun in the world's rush to pick California clean of gold.

John Sutter



William Church (circa 1778–1863) was an American inventor who patented a typesetting machine in 1822

The First American Cotton Mill Began Operation December 20, 1790 Samuel Slater built that first American mill in Pawtucket based on designs of English inventor Richard Arkwright. Though it was against British law to leave the country if you were a textile worker, Slater fled anyway in order to seek his fortune in America. Considered the father of the United States textile industry, he eventually built several successful cotton mills in New England and established the town of Slatersville, Rhode Island. Before the Civil War, textile manufacture was the most important industry in America and there were rapid advances


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Unit Plan 3: Reflection Page

1. Where did you get the ideas and materials for this unit plan? Include website names, URLs, book titles and authors.

Text: Heading West: Life With the Pioneers By: Pat McCarthy.

Text: Houghton Mifflin, "Early Settlers", Pgs. 206-207

Notable Pioneers in History:

http://www.kidskonnect.com/subjectindex/16-educational/history/276-pioneers.html

2. What were the easiest and most challenging parts of writing this unit plan?

The most difficult part of doing this unit plan was trying to decide which pioneers to include on my hand-out. There are so many notables, and I obviously couldn't pick them all. The easiest part of this plan may have been deciding on the compare and contrast map. It is a great toll to use to gather thoughts and really drive-home concepts about the lesson.

3. What suggestions do you have for yourself for the next time you write unit plans?

I might try to figure out how to combine all the information about the famous pioneers into a better format.




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EDEL453 Spring2014 JanisGommeCampbell Unit Plan Wednesday