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Introductory Unit: Ambassador Butterflies to Mexico
Every autumn, a magical event takes place in the animal world. The annual monarch butterfly migration to Mexico is underway! Monarch butterflies are born knowing everything they need to survive. We look on with wonder:
- How do the monarchs know when to go to Mexico?
- How do they know which way to fly?
- How fast, how far, and how high do they travel?
- How do they know when they have arrived—at a small speck on the planet where none has ever been before?
Unit 2: Where We Live
REVIEW JEOPARDY GAME
http://jeopardylabs.com/play/social-studies-where-we-live
Objectives:
1. Distinguish between city, suburban, and small town or farm setting
2. Recognize human-made features of land and identify various landforms and bodies of water
3. Compare physical features of land
4. Use colors and symbols to read a physical map and distinguish land and water on a map
5. Identify examples of how people live in different locations
6. Identify how land and climate affect people’s work and the recreation that enjoy
7. Compare a map and globe and location continents, oceans, equators and poles on both
8. Describe how people depend on the land and identify ways people adapt to and change their environments to meet their needs
9. Recognize how seasonal changes can affect the land and its use
Farm to Market Project
Farm to Market Resources
Group 1: Trees to Paper
http://kinooze.com/how-is-paper-made-from-trees/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IP0Ch1Va44
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4j-McwKckQ
http://www.idahoforests.org/paprmake.htm
Group 2: Cocoa Beans to Chocolate
https://miniyummers.com/how-is-chocolate-made-a-guide-for-kids/
https://www.hersheys.com/en_us/our-story/how-we-make-chocolate.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vXb8Tt_VCU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPAn4flcvBI
Group 3: Milk to Ice Cream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-7s7WrTX7k
http://www.teachertube.com/video/ice-cream-from-the-cow-to-you-33179
http://www.benjerry.com/flavors/how-we-make-ice-cream (articles)
Group 4: Orange to orange juice
http://www.tropicana.com/grove-to-glass
Group 5: Wheat to Cereal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S89_0ZelkTI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV3IF7Gt1h0
Group 6: Apples to Apple Juice
National Monuments Links
World Book Online:
user id- mside
password- learn
A Guide to Famous Landmarks:
http://www.areavibes.com/library/famous-american-landmarks-kids/
National Landmarks Facts:
http://www.softschools.com/facts/us_national_landmarks/
Statue of Liberty Information for Kids:
http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/engineering/statueofliberty.html
Statue of Liberty Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usHRc7G0gVo
Ellis Island Information for Kids:
http://www.ducksters.com/history/us_1800s/ellis_island.php
Ellis Island Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rredHTyKaQ
Washington Monument Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6X-EqGii0k
Washington Monument Information for Kids:
http://www.american-historama.org/1881-1913-maturation-era/washington-monument.htm