Grade 4 Social Studies: Year-long Overview 

 

To be productive members of society, students must be critical consumers of information they read, hear, and observe and communicate effectively about their ideas. They need to gain knowledge from a wide array of sources and examine and evaluate that information to develop and express an informed opinion, using information gained from the sources and their background knowledge. Students must also make connections between what they learn about the past and the present to understand how and why events happen and people act in certain ways. 

 

To accomplish this, students must: 

1. Use sources regularly to learn content. 

2. Make connections among people, events, and ideas across time and place. 

3. Express informed opinions using evidence from sources and outside knowledge. 

 

 

Grade 4 Content 

 

1 - Prehistory and the Agricultural Revolution

 

2 - Ancient Near East

 

3 - Early Civilizations: India, China, Greece

 

4 - The Growth of Empires

 

5 - Early Civilizations in North America

 

6 - The Maya