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CURRICULUM RESOURCES
NVACS-SS ALIGNED INQUIRY LESSONS
- Nevada Women’s Suffrage: What Took So Long?
- How Did Atomic Testing Affect the Landscape and Inhabitants of Nevada?
- How Can We Better Understand the People of the Past and Their Choices Without Passing Judgment? (The Donner Party)
4th GRADE HISTORY MYSTERIES
GRADE 4 OUTs (Opening Up the Textbook)
Please watch this brief video and the OUT Exemplar Video before implementing an OUT lesson:
- Introduction to 4th Grade Nevada History OUTs
- OUT Exemplar Video: Students engage in Constructing Hoover Dam OUT
- A. State Symbols and Motto
- B. Spirit Cave Mummy
- C. Homes of Nevada’s Native Peoples
- D. Reservation Life
- E. Explorers Come West
- F. Mountain Men
- G. Wagon Trains and the Forty Mile Desert
- H. Chinese Prospectors
- I. Basque Culture
- J. Chinese Railroad Workers
- K. Stewart Indian School
- L. Constructing Hoover Dam
- M. Industries In Nevada
- N. Unique Scenery and Tourism
- O. Mining and the Environment
FINANCIAL LITERACY RESOURCE OPTIONS
GRADE 4 ONE PAGERS
GRADE 4 UNIT PLANS and RESOURCES
- Grade 4 Conflict and Compromise in Nevada Unit Final
- Coexist Concept Lesson
- Coexist T Chart
- Grade 4 Nevada Mines Final Unit
- Boom and Bust Note-taker
- Ghosts of the Comstock
- Lesson 1 pgs 26-27 12-11
- Lesson 2 pgs 116-119
- Million Dollar Mines
- Observation Chart Mining Pictures Past and
- Present Pictures of Virginia City Past and Present
- Resources of Nevada
- Virginia City Census 1860
- Virginia City Census 2010
GRADE 4 CLOSE READINGS
- Grade 4 Roughing It Close Reading
- Grade 4 Roughing It Text Dependent Questions
- Grade 4 Numaga Close Reading
- Grade 4 Timber for the Comstock Close Reading
4th GRADE DISCUSSION LESSONS
- A. Native American Legends Revised-1116
- B. Why Have People Moved to Nevada?
- C. Mountain Men
- D. Pony Express Riders and Natives
- E. Lincoln and Statehood
- F. Womens’ Suffrage
- G. Yucca Mountain
- H. Tahoe Clarity
- I. South East Connector
4th GRADE VISUAL ANALYSIS
- Nevada Postcard Zoom In
- Nevada State Seal Zoom In
- Atomic Bomb Zoom In
- American Progress Zoom In (Westward Expansion)
- Miner Photograph Zoom In
- Explorers Come West Zoom In (supports OUT E)
- Mountain Men Zoom In (supports OUT F)
- Dangers of the Wagon Train Zoom In (supports OUT G)
- Basque Culture in Nevada Zoom In (supports OUT I)
- Womens’ Suffrage Zoom In (supports Discussion Lesson F)
We are considering a new text for our fourth grade Nevada social studies. Do you have a sample I can review and perhaps promote within our organization?
Sorry, we have not reviewed recent options yet. NDE will be posting a list of new approved texts in the spring.