Highlighted+Resources


 * [|Kentucky Department of Education Social Studies Standards]
 * [|National Council for the Social Studies Standards]
 * [|National Council for the Social Studies Positions Statements]
 * [|Teaching with Documents (NCSS)]
 * [|NCSS Lessons]
 * [|NCSS Notable Trade Books]
 * K-PREP Blueprint
 * K-PREP Number of Items

Literature
 * CALLS--Location excerpts to use with students

=*** 4th Grade Kentucky Unit on Wikispaces***=

@4th - 5th Grade Kentucky Camp Lessons

 * __Featured Links - Weeks 7-12 PD Session__**


 * JCPS Social Studies Professional Development Wikis
 * [|Grade 4 Social Studies Engagement Activities (must log on first)]
 * [|JCPS Online Social Studies Lessons (must log on first)]
 * [|United Streaming (Discovery Education)]
 * [|Digital Docs in a Box]
 * [|iCivics]
 * [|Colonial Williamsburg]
 * [|Slave Trade - Triangular Trade]
 * [|Library of Congress (LOC)]
 * [|Cochran Elementary website - Social Studies]
 * Mission US--Interactive site for students
 * History.com-The Boston Massacre (part of the series //America The Story of Us//)


 * __Featured Links - Weeks 13-18 PD Session__**


 * [|School House Rock]
 * [|Mini-Pages]
 * [|Charters of Freedom] (original documents)
 * [|Articles of Confederation vs. the Constitution]
 * [|TLC Elementary - We the People: A History] (Constitution starts @ 15 minute mark)
 * [|The Core Democratic Values]
 * [|Interactive Constitution]
 * [|Basic Ideas in Preamble - Center for Civic Education] (Look at grade 4 as well as 5)
 * [|JCPS Online Lessons – Separation of Powers] – must be logged in and active on JCPS online first!
 * [|How Do You Make a More Perfect Union - National Endowment for the Humanities - Edsitement]
 * [|Readers’ Theater] (Social Studies)
 * [|Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States] (Interactive Painting) - Christy
 * [|Rethinking the U.S. Constitutional Convention: A Role Play] (from Teaching a People's History - free subscription required)
 * Celebrating Constitution and Veterans Day Wikispace

Grade 5 Curricum Map __**Featured Links - Weeks 19-24 PD Session**__


 * The Nation Divided**
 * Civil war overview video (3:54) America Divided--History.com
 * Readers Theater--Cotton Gin
 * Maps of Civil War--Scholastic.com
 * Mission US-Mission 2: Flight to Freedom
 * Book in an Hour--Dr. Sheffield
 * Scholastic: Underground Railroad-Escape from Slavery


 * Reconstruction Lesson-JCPS Online

//**How Westward Expansion, Immigration, Industrialization, (Urbanization), and subsequent Reform Movements, WWI affected and changed people (esp. children, women, African-Americans, and immigrants) and how people responded to shape their nation)**//
 * A Nation Changes-**
 * Factory to Information Age Wiki- a super resource for teaching about the Civil War to the present day
 * Fasttrack to America's past - teacher resource


 * Westward Expansion - A Collection of Lessons
 * The American Frontier- Discovery Education Video (20 minutes)
 * Transcontinental Railroad- JCPS Online Lesson


 * Immigration Explorer NY Times Interactive Map Showing Immigrants through time
 * Immigration map timeline- National Constitution Center
 * Immigration in America - JCPS Online Lesson
 * Legislation Against Immigration - JCPS Online Lesson
 * Immigration Game - Interactive game from Tenement Museum


 * Gilded Age Timeline - FastTrack Teaching
 * Factory Life - JCPS Online Lesson
 * The American Industrial Revolution - Discovery Education Video (27 minutes)
 * Growth of Cities- JCPS Online Lesson
 * The Great Migration - JCPS Online Lesson
 * The Urban Transformation - Discovery Education Video segment of The American Industrial Revolution (7 1/2 minutes)
 * Living During the Industrial Revolution - Discovery Education Video segment (1 minute)


 * Progressivism - JCPS Online Lesson
 * An Unfinished Nation: The Progressive Era - Teacher Background Resource (27 minutes)
 * The Birth of Progressivism - Excellent Brief Introductory Primer to Progressive Era (1 minute)
 * The Gilded Age and Progressive Reform Teacher created YouTube slideshow to use with students (10 minutes)
 * Muckrakers - short YouTube overview of Muckrakers (little over 1 minute)
 * [[file:Muckrakers.ppt]]
 * The Problem of Child Labor in Factories - JCPS Online Lesson
 * Beyond Their Years - YouTube slideshow about child labor featuring Lewis Hines photos (3 1/2 minutes)
 * Child Labor (Babies In the Mill / Dark as a Dungeon)-YouTube video set to period folk music (7 1/2 minutes)
 * How the Other Half Lives- Narrated YouTube slideshow of Jacob Riis photos about Tenement Life (9 minutes)
 * Workers, Women, African-Americans, Immigrants


 * The Great War - JCPS Online Lesson
 * WWI - Discovery Education Video segment (5 minutes)

Weeks 25-30
JCPS Online > Elementary Social Studies Resources > Content

// World War II //
WWII on the Homefront

// Civil Rights Movement //
Civil Rights Movement - JCPS Online Lessons

Factory to Information Age Wikispace - Civil Rights Lesson Resources

Rise and Fall of Jim Crow - Literacy Tests

[|Unit 7 Lesson 2 Martin Luther King Jr..doc]

Multiple Civil Right Online Video Excerpts

King Leads the March on Washington - History.com video segment



Freedom Riders - America in the 20th Century - Civil Rights Movement

The Civil Rights Movement: The Role of Youth in the Struggle

Civil Rights Movement Timeline

Digital Docs in a Box - Civil Rights

Civil Rights Legislation of the 1960s and 1970s

== [|Unit 7 Lesson 4 Civil Rights in Louisville.doc] ==

Civil Rights in Louisville

// Globalization //
The Cold War and Vietnam - JCPS Online Lesson

International Influence - iCivics

Conflict and Cooperation - iCivics

Flashbacks [[file:5th Grade Social Studies Flashbacks.pdf]]
Kentucky Flashbacks

Blank Templates to Create Games

**Kentucky Social Studies Camp (4th and 5th)**

 * Opener
 * Polls everywhere
 * Analysis Activity
 * Digging into the Lessons
 * Share
 * [|Kentucky Camp Lesson Planstemplate.docx]
 * Closing
 * Evaluation