Standards
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Lesson 4
3rd Grade Social Studies Standards
3.C.1.1: Compare languages, foods and traditions of various groups living in local and regional communities.
3.C&G.2: Understand how citizens participate in their communities.
3.C&G.2.1: Exemplify how citizens contribute politically, socially, and economically to their community.
3.C&G.2.2: Exemplify how citizens contribute to the well-being of the
community’s natural environment.
3.E.2: Understand entrepreneurship in a market economy.
3.G.1.4: Explain how the movement of goods, people and ideas impact the community.
4th Grade Social Studies Standards
4.C.1: Understand the impact of various cultural groups in North Carolina.
4.E.2: Understand the economic factors when making personal choices.
4.E.2.2: Explain how scarcity of personal finance resources affects the choices people make based on their wants and needs.
4.G.1: Understand how human, environmental and technological factors affect the growth and development of North Carolina.
4.G.1.1: Summarize changes that have occurred in North Carolina since statehood (population growth, transportation, communication, landscape).
4.G.1.2: Explain the impact that human activity has on the availability of natural resources in North Carolina.
4.G.1.3: Exemplify the interactions of various peoples, places, and cultures in terms of adaptation and modification of environment
4th Grade Science Standards
4.L.1: Understand the effects of environmental changes, adaptations and behaviors that enable animals (including humans) to survive in changing habitats.
4.L.1.1: Give examples of changes in an organism’s environment that are beneficial to it and some that are harmful.
4.L.1.2: Explain how animals meet their needs by using behaviors in response to information received from the environment
4.L.1.3: Explain how humans can adapt their behavior to live in changing habitats (e.g., recycling wastes, establishing rain gardens, planting trees and shrubs to prevent flooding and erosion).
5th Grade Social Studies Standards
5.C&G.2: Analyze life in a democratic republic through the rights and responsibilities of citizens.
5.E.2: Understand that personal choices result in benefits or consequences.
5.G.1: Understand how human activity has and continues to shape the United States.
5th Grade Social Studies Standards
5.L.2: Understand the interdependence of plants and animals with their ecosystem.
5.L.2.3: Infer the effects that may result from the interconnected relationship of plants and animals to their ecosystem