Grade 4 Social Studies Iowa standards Standards

Iowa History

Critique Historical Sources and Evidence

Analyze Change, Continuity, and Context

Analyze Human Population Movement and Patterns

Evaluate Human Environment Interaction

Create Geographic Representations

Create a Saving and Spending Plan

Evaluate the National Economy

Interpret Processes, Rules and Laws

Apply Civic Virtues and Democratic Principles

Recognize the Interaction Between the Individual and Various Groups

Taking Informed Action

Communicating and Critiquing Conclusions

Developing Claims and Using Evidence

Constructing Questions

Change and Continuity

Identify a supporting question that answers the compelling question in a familiar inquiry.

Identify a reason why the cost of goods and services change.

Identify a reason why a person would choose to spend or save their money.

Create a geographic representation identifying natural resources in an area.

Identify why people live in specific places or regions.

Identify the different methods of transportation used throughout United States History.

Identify events that happened at the same time.

Identify the intended audience of a historical document.

Identify technological change in Iowa across time.

Identify changes in Iowa's agriculture over time.

Identify a response to a compelling question that uses evidence.

Identify responses to a compelling question that use relevant details.

Identify a civic problem within their classroom or community, and one possible consequence of an action to solve that problem.

Identify one cause of conflict or collaboration among different social groups.

Identify how democratic principles guide government, societies, and/or communities.

Identify how the enforcement of a law changed society (i.e. seat belts, speed limits).

Economics/Financial Literacy: Financial and Career Goals

Economics/Financial Literacy: Credit and Risk Management

Economics/Financial Literacy: Financial and Career Goals

Economics/Financial Literacy: Saving, Spending and Investing

Spending Wisely (Financial Literacy)

Civics/Government: Constitutional Principles and Civic Virtues

Civics/Government: Role and Systems of Government

History: Change, Continuity and Context

History: Comparison and Corroboration

Geography: Human Movement and Patterns

Geography: Geographic Tools

Immigration

Economics/Financial Literacy: Economic Decision Making

Civics/Government: Processes, Rules and Laws

History: Change, Continuity and Context

Geography: Human Movement and Patterns

Geography: Human-Environment Interaction

Geography: Places and Regions

Westward Expansion/Migration

Civics/Government: Citizenship and Civic Rights and Responsibilities

Geography: Geographic Tools

History: Multiple Perspectives

History: Change, Continuity, and Context

History: Chronological Reasoning and Causation

History: Chronological Reasoning and Causation

The American Revolution

Civic Engagement and Participation

Communicate Conclusions

Claims and Evidence

Gather, Interpret and Evaluate Sources

Develop Questions and Plan Inquiries

Inquiry Standards

Develop and refine questions to actively shape and advance the investigation of the topic.

Explain how the natural environment impacted decisions made during the American Revolution using geographic representations.

Summarize key principles of the Declaration of Independence.

Explain the process by which certain areas of land were added to the United States.

Clarify how westward expansion changed the landscape and how the landscape affected migration.

Describe how the population of Iowa has changed, from a predominantly Native American population to one composed largely of European and American settlers.

Describe the effects, opportunities, and conflicts that happened when people from different groups came into contact with each other.

Analyze the effects of government policies intended to promote westward settlement on diverse groups of people.

Analyze the costs and benefits of migration and resettlement for various groups.

Identify patterns and trends in the locations where immigrant groups settled in the United States.

Analyze the push and pull factors that led to new immigrant groups coming to the United States.

Interpret information about specific perspectives or beliefs from sources.

Compare and contrast the experiences of different immigrant groups to the United States.

Describe the diverse cultural makeup of Iowa’s past and present in the local community, including Native American and agricultural communities.

Explain why the United States made policies intended to encourage, restrict, and/or document populations of people entering the nation.

Evaluate civic virtues displayed by immigrants and immigrant groups coming to and settling in the United States.

Identify factors that can influence people’s different spending and saving choices.

Create a simple budget to plan how to spend and save money to meet financial goals.

Identify why it is important and ways to protect personal financial information.

Explore how people and the government work together to meet community needs.

Make a claim about a topic and support it with evidence from one or more sources.

Construct responses to questions using reasoning, examples, and relevant details.

Identify the strategies people and/or groups use to advocate for a cause, and evaluate the civic virtues reflected by those strategies.

Explain the causes of the American Revolution.

Evaluate the impact of the strategies used by Great Britain and the American Colonists to win the Revolutionary War.

Evaluate whether the outcomes of the Revolutionary War solved key problems of the Pre-Revolutionary period.

Describe the perspectives and impact of key individuals and groups during the American Revolution.