English Language Arts Aligned

Essential Question: As a museum curator, what will you include in your museum room to help people understand the importance of your California Native American community?

Science: Analyze and interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earth’s features. Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost. 

Social Studies: Discuss the major nations of California Indians, including their geographic distribution, economic activities, legends, and religious beliefs; and describe how they depended on, adapted to, and modified the physical environment by cultivation of land and use of sea resources.

English Language Arts Aligned

Essential Question: What is a topographical map, and what do they tell us? How do I read and understand a topographical map? 

Science: Analyze and interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earth’s features.

Social Studies: Use maps, charts, and pictures to describe how communities in California vary in land use, vegetation, wildlife, climate, population density, architecture, services, and transportation. 

Essential Question: How might we create a business that can incorporate a simple circuit and show regions of California while selling a product?

Science: Students will use the engineering and design process to make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.

Social Studies: Identify the state capital and describe the various regions of California, including how their characteristics and physical environments (e.g., water, landforms, vegetation, climate) affect human activity.