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SOCIAL SCIENCE-7th Grade Kansas History


OUTCOME/ ESSENTIAL QUESTION

 

CONTENT

 

OBJECTIVE/SKILL

 

ASSESSMENT

 

1. How did the exploration of early Kansas by American explorers affect later settlement and Indian policy?
2. What groups, individuals, ideas, events and developments drove the era of immigration?
 
1. Readings-text and outside sources, maps and graphs-both student and instructor generated.
2. What native groups were "relocated" to Kansas? What problems arose between "native" Kansas tribes and the "immigrant" tribes? Why Europeans settled where, when, and why?
 
1. Describe how Long's classification of Kansas as the "Great American Desert" influenced government policy on Indian relocation. Also how it influenced the lack of early settlement. (K1I2)
2. Locate on maps, graphs, and charts various routes of European as well as early American explorers. (K1I2) 
 
Tests, questions from text, map exercises, projects-mapping, graphing, writing-both group and individual, research writing, essay test
 
What groups, individuals, ideas, events, and developments drove the era of immigration?
1. Why was the Civil War era so pivotal to Kansas history?
 
What native groups were "relocated" to Kansas? What problems arose between "native" Kansas tribes and the "immigrant" tribes? Why Europeans settled where, when, and why?
1. Popular sovereignty as described under the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
 
Locate on maps, graphs, and charts various routes of European as well as early American exploers. (K2I2)
1. Research the territorial crisis-dual state constitutions, political ramifications of Kansas statehood on the national level, learn the forces that drove the guerilla warfare in Kansas, the pro-South Bushwhacker and the pro-North Jayhawker, the "New England" connection, Kansas contribution to the union (K3I1, K3I2)
 
Tests, questions from text, map exercises, projects both group and individual, research writing, essay test
 
1. Why was the Civil War era so pivotal to Kansas history?
2. Key elements of the post Civil War era of expansion and development in Kansas 1865-1900
 
1. Popular sovereignty as described under the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
2. Impact of railroad expansion, various immigration movements, exodustor, German-Russian/German, other European, Mexican
 
1. Territorial crisis-dual state constitutions, political ramifications of Kansas statehood, understand the forces that drove the guerilla warfare in Kansas, the pro-South Bushwhacker and the pro-North Jayhawker, the "New England" connection, Kansas contribution to the union (K3I1, K3I2)
2. Importance of railroad to development of the Texas cattle industry and development of small towns and cities (K4I7)-overall impact of the railroad on agriculture development as well as small industry (coal mining in southeast Kansas), exodustor-free slaves-found free land in Kansas, left south to escape "Jim Crow laws." (K4I3)
 
Tests, questions from text, map exercises, projects both group and individual, research writing, essay test
 
1. What were the key elements of the post Civil War era of expansion and development in Kansas 1865-1900
2. What are elements in the development of industrialization and modernization of Kansas 1900-present.
 
1. Impact of railroad expansion, various immigration movements, exodustor, German-Russian/German, other European, Mexican
2. Rise of populism in Kansas and the general Progressive movement, accomplishments of the movements
 
1. Students will demonstrate the importance of railroad to development of the Texas cattle industry and development of small towns and cities (K4I7)-overall impact of the railroad on agriculture development as well as small industry (coal mining in southeast Kansas), exodustor-free slaves-found free land in Kansas, left south to escape "Jim Crow laws." (K4I3)
2. Why Europeans came in search of opportunities. Show that the reform movement was a direct outgrowth of the expansion of railroads without big business and how the "common man" was treated. (K4I6) Disillusionment with big business, regulation of monopolies, banking regulations, health improvements
 
Tests, questions from text, map exercises, projects both group and individual, research writing, essay test
 
1. What are the key elements in the development of industrialization and modernization of Kansas 1900-present.
 
1. Describe the effects of the Dust Bowl on Kansas both urban and rural. Compare and contrast pre-World War II Kansas to post-World War II Kansas. Rise of industry extractive as well as industrial
 
1. Great Depression and the effect on the overall population of Kansas as well as the economy (K5I1, K5I2), the rise of the oil and gas industry from 1892 to present, the rise and fall of the coal industry, (K6I2) impact of industry and agri-business on the environment, the rural exodus to the towns and cities and the development of the industrial triangle at the end of World War II.
 
Tests, questions from text, map exercises, projects both group and individual, research writing, essay test