Stupendous+Social+Studies



 **Places Unit -** (Sept/Oct) In this Unit the students will be able to identify types of human settlements, connections between the settlements, and the types of activities found in each. Knowledge and Skills: Students will know:
 * Physical characteristics of of places (landforms, climate, natural resources)
 * Human characteristics of places,
 * Types of connections between places and reasons for building them.
 * Culture ( music, art, drama, clothing, customs)

Students will be able to:
 * Describe the charcteristics of a place
 * Compare and categorize the characteristics of different places
 * Identify different types of connections and provide reasons for them
 * Compare different types of maps

__**Resources:**__ [|Virtual Schools] [|Hi Friends from around the globe- E Pals] **[|Digital Storytelling - Africa]** [|E-Pal Classrooms-Places] ** __[|Brain Pop] See Social Studies - Continents __ **

What Does LIBERTY really mean? Our favorite websites: [|Liberty Bell - from Jordan] [|U.S. Marine Memorial][|l]

=Earth Day= =Delaware Children's Museum came to our school and brought their Earth Balloon!=

Please go to the Discussion page and add your comments about your experience with and in the Earth Balloon!
=Inventions= [|Goldberg's Great House Contraptions]

[|BSS TECH ikeepbookmarks] [|Inventors] [|factmonster] [|Inventions: Games that Teach] [|Inventions and Inventors]

Have you heard of the "Great Iditarod Race?"

**Let's take a trip to Alaska and see what's going on! I can hear the dogs barking and the mushers gearing up.....I can feel the frost on my nose...... I can smell the clean thin frosty air..... I can see miles of white wilderness...... Let's take a peak and see how the mushers and their dogs are getting ready for the big race in March!**

__**Student Resources**__ [|Preview to the Iditarod] [|Scholastic Coverage] [|Eye on the Trail]

__**Teacher Resources**__ [|Iditarod- Project w/ scholastic] [|Dog Breeds] [|Iditarod FREE videos] [|Preparations] [|Trail Map] [|www.ikeepbookmarks.com] [|Serum Run] [|Discovery Channel!]