The Maine Learning Results document identifies the goal of social studies education as helping students to "develop the ability to make informed and reasoned decisions for the public good as citizens of a culturally diverse, democratic society in an interdependent world ".
Our curriculum focuses on important eras in American history, examining historical events and daily life through diverse points-of-view.
Our Units of study:
First Americans
Colonial America
A Mill Town
Moving West
Immigration
Our curriculum focuses on important eras in American history, examining historical events and daily life through diverse points-of-view.
Our Units of study:
First Americans
Colonial America
A Mill Town
Moving West
Immigration
September:
Our first unit is about the people who migrated to North America from Asia, and about the world they inhabited. Students will learn how people settled, and how they developed the skills to help them live in and shape their environment. Some concepts or vocabulary taught in this unit are:
- First Americans
- migration
- North America
- Asia
- land bridge
- Native American
- tribes
- geographical features
- natural resources
- Wabanaki
The second part of the First Americans unit involves small group investigation of specific geographical regions and the American Indians who lived in them before Europeans arrived in North America.
Tuesday, September 19, 2016
Students will be choose a region for their short research project from the following groups:
Tribes include:
1. The Great Plains Tribes
2. Southwest Desert Dwellers
3. Western/Pacific Native Americans
4. Tribes of the Southeast
5. Tribes of the Northeast Woodlands
6. Californian Tribes