Indiana Social Studies Grade 4

NEW in 2024: Updated for Indiana's New Standards! Also, now in digital format as well as PDF. There are multiple lessons for each of the new state standards. There are also daily guides to the lessons, assessments, projects, articles, assignments, and activities.

Unit 1:

• Prehistoric People of Indiana (Paleoindian, Archaic, Woodland, Mississippian) page 2-17- What are artifacts? Booklet that gives info about each group, play Chunkey, Prehistoric Scoot game,
• Native Americans of Indiana (Miami, Shawnee, Potawatomi, Lenape, Kickapoo, Wyandotte) pages 18-71- Looking at Native American artifacts and guessing what it was used for, Look at a list of natural resources and plan what they would do with each of them to survive, booklet about each group listed above, Wampum belts, Masks, readers theater of Native American legends, Museum project, misconceptions about Native Americans, ABCS of Native Americans
• Geography pages 73-123- using a map key, creating a map, relative location, booklet about Indiana regions, Indiana regions Scoot game, Indiana's atmosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere and how they are connected, (activities include making rocks out of chocolate, creating a water cycle in a bag, research plants and animals from Indiana), ABCs of Spheres, Sphere Scoot game,

Unit 2:

• Indiana History through Statehood pages 2-27- Study the Europeans who settled in Indiana; French and Indian War and Revolutionary War in Indiana, Land Ordinance of 1785 (Measure and divide classes into ordinances), Looking at population data to see when people reached statehood level, Battle of Fallen Timbers and Tippecanoe- quotes from Native American leaders, poem writing activity
• Constitution and Citizenship pages 28-45- Study the Indiana Constitution in small groups and present their part, write a classroom Preamble and Constitution, Rights and responsibilities, solve a classroom problem, look at a local issue
• Early Settlements pages 46-58- New Harmony (Create your own utopia), money around the world timeline, French and German immigrants, mapping first roads, railroads, canals
• Underground Railroad and Colonization pages 59-72- Learning about songs sung by enslaved people, quilt patterns, mapping routes on Underground Railroad with examples of actual stops in Indiana, colonization movement in Indiana
• Civil War pages 73-98- Primary sources about Abraham Lincoln, differences in the north and south, creating circle graphs of data, Camp Morton, Civil War in Indiana, Comparing Lew Wallace and Benjamin Harrison
• Immigration pages 99-125- Ellis Island simulation

Unit 3:

• Early Indiana Industry pages 2-31- How industry helped grow the state, booklet about the various industries- agriculture, coal, glass, steel, automobile, current industries, Studebaker Brothers, Eli Lilly, Madam CJ Walker, creating a yearbook of Indiana entrepreneurs, reading timelines, creating a pretend business
• Productivity and Economics pages 32-63- booklet about farming changes since the 1800s, Productivity examples, inventing something to help a teacher be more productive, looking at old advertisements for signs of productivity, supply and demand, private vs. public services, creating a goods and services town, Indiana in WWI and II, Great Migration, Women's suffrage, Great Depression, Segregation, Korean War, Immigrants in Indiana, Interstates and Ports in Indiana, Researching events in Indiana- first Indy 500, Ohio River Flood, Palm Sunday Tornadoes, Research an Indiana Artist and hold an Art Show
• Indiana History in the 20th Century pages 64-95
• TIMELINE AND SOURCE CENTER
• Research pages 96-102
• Social Studies Teacher of the Day Separate Digital File