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| Grade 4
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| History and Government, Economics and Geography, Approved 2005
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| Kansas, United States, and World History |
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Standard
Benchmark
Indicator | Description | Lesson Plans | Thinkfinity | Resources |
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4
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The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas, events, eras, and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and research skills.
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4.1
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The student understands the significance of important individuals and major developments in history.
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4.1.1
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(A) The student researches the contributions made by notable Kansans in the history (e.g., Dwight David Eisenhower, Alf Landon, Amelia Earhart, George Washington Carver, Robert Dole, William Allen While, Langston Hughes, Carry A. Nation, Black Bear Bosin, Gordon Parks, Clyde Cessna, Charles Curtis, Walter Chrysler, Wyatt Earp).
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4.1.2
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(K) The student uses traditional stories from regions of United States to help define the region.
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4.1.3
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(K) The student describes the observations of the explorers who came to what was to become Kansas (e.g., Francisco Coronado, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, Zebulon Pike, Stephen H. Long).
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4.1.4
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(K) The student describes how communication and transportation systems connect Kansas to other regions, past and present (e.g., trails, Pony Express, telegraph, steamboats, railroad lines, highway systems, air transportation, Internet).
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4.1.5
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(A) The student compares and contrasts the purposes of the Santa Fe and Oregon-California Trails (e.g., commercial vs. migration).
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4.1.6
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(K) The student describes life on the Santa Fe and Oregon-California Trails (e.g., interactions between different cultural groups, hardships such as lack of water, mountains and rivers to cross, weather, need for medical care, size of wagon).
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4.2
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The student understands the importance of experiences of groups of people who have contributed to the richness of heritage.
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4.2.1
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(A) The student compares the various reasons several immigrant groups settled in Kansas (e.g., English, German, German-Russian, French, Swedish, Czechoslovakian, Croatian, Serbian, Mexican, African American, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Laotian).
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4.2.2
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(K) The student explains the economic and cultural contributions made by immigrant groups in Kansas (e.g., jobs, agriculture, mining, arts, customs, celebrations).
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4.3
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The student understands the significance of events, holidays, documents, and symbols that are important to Kansas, United States and World history.
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4.3.1
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(K) The student explains the origin of the name "Kansas."
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4.3.2
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(K) The student describes the history of the Kansas state song, "Home on the Range."
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4.4
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The student engages in historical thinking skills.
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4.4.1
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(A) The student crates and uses historical timelines (e.g., time periods, eras, decades, centuries).
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4.4.2
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(A) The student develops a thesis statement around a historical question.
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4.4.3
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(K) The student understands the difference between inferred information and observed information.
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4.4.4
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(A) The student identifies and compares information from primary and secondary sources (e.g., photographs, diaries/journals, newspapers, historical maps).
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4.4.5
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(A) The student uses research skills to interpret an historical person or event in history and notes the source(s) of information (e.g., discusses ideas; formulates broad and specific questions; determines a variety of sources; locates, evaluates, organizes, records and shares relevant information in both oral and written form).
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