Unit 1: Discovering the Social Sciences

Lesson 1: The Four Core Social Sciences

• Focus Question: What do Social Scientists do?

• Vocabulary: economy, geography, history, political science

Lesson 2: Exploring Regions of the United States

• Focus Question: How do geographers study the regions of the United States?

• Vocabulary: basin, coastal plain, global grid, inland, line of latitude, line of longitude, map key, plateau, region, scale, special-purpose map

Lesson 3: The Peopling of the United States

• Focus Question: How have different groups contributed to the United States?

• Vocabulary: the Americas, colony, culture, democracy, diverse, immigrant