Learning Objects Scenario


Grade Four - Social Studies - Westward Expansion

 

Essential Question:  

In what ways do events in our country's past influence us today?

 

Georgia Performance Standards SS4H6a and SS4H6b

 

Student Syllabus

 

In this unit, students are learning about events in our country's past that influence us today. These include the invention of the steamboat and the telegraph, as well as the completion of the transcontinental railroad.

 


Lesson One:    S  T  E  A  M  B  O  A  T  S

 

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Lesson Two:  T  E L E G R A P H S

 

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Lesson Three:  T H E    T R A N S C O N T I N E N T A L   R A I L R O A D

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