Tentative Social Studies Outline for the Year

Text: Geography Tools and Concepts

September: Chapter 1: Earth’s Geography

Map coloring and labeling assignment

Five Themes project

October: Chapter 2: Physical Geography

Map project

November: Chapter 3: Human Geography

Map follow up project: Brochures/writing

Chapter 4: Cultures

DIG project

December: Finish book work

Family cultures projects: traditions, artifact fair, oral tradition

Text: The Ancient World

January: Chapter 1 Beginnings of Early Society

Timelines

Vocabulary

Thinking Maps

January/Feb.: Chapter 2: Fertile Crescent

Marketplace

February/March: Chapter 3 Ancient Egypt

Various projects, extension activities

April: India/China

May: Greece/Rome