Social Studies

People and Geograpy of the United States

Skills:

• Uses strategies for reading notification.
• Obtains important data from a variety of places including libraries, maps, the Internet, music, maps, film, eyewitness accounts and newspapers.
• Questions whether certain perspectives are being omitted from sources.
• Describes places from the perspective of people who live there.
• Builds ideas and inferences well supported with evidence.
• Presents clear, well-reasoned narratives, explanations and opinions.

Concepts:

• Describes Massachusetts as a state with its own cities, towns and rural areas; its own history, government and laws.
• Explains how climate in the different regions is shaped by latitude, elevations and landforms.
• Describes how geography, history, economy and people’s diversity interact to shape the way people live in each region.