Social+Studies

Essential Standards for Social Studies: 4.H.1.1 Summarize the change in cultures, everyday life and status of indigenous American Indian groups in North Carolina before and after European exploration. 4.H.1.2 Explain how and why North Carolina was established. 4.H.1 Analyze the chronology of key historical events in North Carolina history. 4.H.1.3 Explain how people, events and developments brought about changes to communities in various regions of North Carolina. 4.H.1.4 Analyze North Carolina’s role in major conflicts and wars from the Pre-Colonial period through Reconstruction. 4.H.2.1 Explain why important buildings, statues, monuments and place names are associated with the state's history. 4.H.2 Understand how notable structures, symbols and place names are significant to North Carolina. 4.H.2.2 Explain the historical significance of North Carolina’s state symbols. 4.G.1.1 Summarize changes that have occurred in North Carolina since statehood (population growth, transportation, communication and land use). 4.G.1.2 Explain the impact that human activity has on the availability of natural resources in North Carolina. 4.G.1.3 Exemplify the interactions of various peoples, places and cultures in terms of adaptation and modification of the environment. 4.G.1 Understand how human, environmental and technological factors affect the growth and development of North Carolina. 4.G.1.4 Explain the impact of technology (communication, transportation and inventions) on North Carolina’s citizens, past and present. 4.E.1 Understand how a market economy impacts life in North Carolina. 4.E.1.1 Understand the basic concepts of a market economy: price, supply, demand, scarcity, productivity and entrepreneurship. 4.E.1.2 Understand how scarcity and choice in a market economy impacts business decisions. 4.E.1.3 Analyze the historical and contemporary role that major North Carolina industries have played in the state, nation and world. 4.E.1 Understand how a market economy impacts life in North Carolina. 4.E.2.1 Explain how personal financial decisions such as spending, saving and paying taxes can positively and/or negatively affect everyday life. 4.E.2 Understand the economic factors when making personal choices. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 70%;">4.E.2.2 Explain how scarcity of personal financial resources affect the choices people make based on their wants and needs.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">**North Carolina:** <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__All about North Carolina__ []

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">**General Information on North Carolina:** [|NC Almanac] [|N.C. General Information] [|North Carolina Pedia] [|Interesting Facts on North Carolina] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6c850f; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">__<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**[|NC Wise Owl]** __ <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__**[|NC Resources]**__ <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__**[|Digital NC]**__ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">**N.C. Economy:** [|N.C. Economy]
 * [|NC.GOV]**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">**N.C. Geography:** [|N.C. Geography]

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">N.C. State Maps: <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">[|N.C. Maps]

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">**Assessments on North Carolina:** [|N.C. State Quiz] [|N.C. Quiz]

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**N.C. Historic People and Places:** <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__**N.C. Historic Places**__ [] N.C. Battleship:

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">**Information on North Carolina:** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6c850f; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__**[|North Carolina at Worldatlas.com]**__ <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">**North Carolina On Line Textbook:** <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__**[|NC Digital Textbook]**__

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">**Games on North Carolina:**
 * [|NC State Learning Games]**
 * [|NC. State Game]**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">**Information on all 100 Counties in North Carolina:** [|Information on Counties in N.C.] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6c850f; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6c850f; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">** Virtual tours of places in North Carolina: ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6c850f; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px;">[|Virtual Tours] <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">**North Carolina Waterfalls:** [|NC Waterfalls] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6c850f; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6c850f; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px;">North Carolina Lighthouses: ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6c850f; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">__<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**[|N.C. Lighthouses]** __ <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">**Videos on North Carolina:** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">[|Videos on N.C.] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6c850f; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">** Powerpoints on North Carolina: ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6c850f; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">[|NC at PPPST] [|America's Story of North Carolina] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">**North Carolina in the Past:** __<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">** [|The Way We Lived] ** __ __<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">** [|100 Years of NC History] ** __ <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__**Lost Colony: How do you lose a colony?**__

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">**The Old North State Song;** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6c850f; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">[|Listen Here] <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">**North Carolina Commodities:** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6c850f; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">[|NC Commodities Webquest] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6c850f; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6c850f; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px;">** The Wright Brothers: ** [|The Wright Brothers Games] [|The Wright Brothers Activities] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6c850f; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">[] <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">**North Carolina People:** [|NC Famous Natives Alphabetical] [|Famous North Carolinians] <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">**Projects:** [|Timeline Generator] [|4th Grade Wax Museum] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6c850f; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">**NC Social and Political Institutions:** [|Tour the State Capitol] [|Visit Raleigh] [|Three Branches of Government - 3 Ring Circus] [|I'm Just a Bill]

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">**North Carolina Ghost Stories:** [|Ghost stories of North Carolina] <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__**[|Ghost Stories of NC]**__ <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__**[|Ghost Stories by Regions]**__ <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|NC Legends and Ghost Stories] ** <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Haunted NC] ** <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Creepy NC] **

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">**Pirates:** [|Pirates at PPPST] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6c850f; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6c850f; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">[|Blackbeard Scavenger Hunt at iss.k12.nc.us] **__ __** [|Blackbeard History Channel] **__ __**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6c850f; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">[|Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge on PBS] **__ [] [] __<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**National Geographic Pirate Adventure** __

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">**Three Regions of North Carolina:** <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**__Overview of 3 regions of North Carolina-__** Livebinders with all the information you would ever want for Coastal region, Piedmont region, and Mountain region. []

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">**Coastal North Carolina:** []
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__Wild Horses of North Carolina__ **

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">**North Carolina Lighthouses:** [|4th Grade Lighthouse Projects] [|Lighthouses of NC google video] [|Great site! NC Lighthouses ncbeaches.com] [|RESEARCH NC Lighthouse Notes] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6c850f; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"> North Carolina Lighthouse Wiki Page David Hooper <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">**Colonial Unit:** <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__**Colonial Unit Interactive Game**__ [] <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**__Colonial Then and Now Video's__** []

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">**COLONIAL TIMES RESEARCH LINKS:**
=== <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__**[|Colonial Life]**__ === ===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__**[|Daily Life - Diagram]**__ === ===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__**[|Colonial Schools]**__ === ===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__**[|Education]**__ === ===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__**[|Recreation (Games/Hobbies)]**__ === ===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__**[|Colonial Games]**__ === ===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__**[|Williamsburg Site - Lots of Info on Colonial Times]**__ ===

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">**COLONIAL TRADESMAN ASSIGNMENT LINKS:**
=== <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__**[|Williamsburg Site - Trades]**__ === ===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__**[|Colonial Trades]**__ === ===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__**[|More on Colonial Trades]**__ === ===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__**[|Colonial Tradesman - good site]**__ === ===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__**[|Pictures of Signs]**__ === ===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__**[|Pictures of Tradesman Shop Signs]**__ ===

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">**Native American Groups of NC:**
==<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__**[|Algonquians of NC Coast]**__ == <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__**[|Iroquois Indians]**__ <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__**[|Tuscarora Indians] [|More on the Tuscaroras]**__ <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__**[|Souian (Catawba Indians of the Piedmont)]**__

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">**NC Natural Resources:** <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__**[|NC Agriculture (crops, animals)]**__ <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__**[|Ag's Cool Site - NC Dept of Agriculture]**__ <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__**[|Christmas Trees]**__ <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__**[|Minerals]**__ <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__**[|NC Fisheries (shrimp, fish industries]**__ <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__**Mountains, Beaches (recreation)**__

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">**State Symbols:** ===<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__**[|Secretary of State Kids Page]**__ ===

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