Washington State
Social Studies GLEs
Grade 4
OSPI Suggested Grade 4 Units:
Fall 2008
WA - Being Citizens in Washington
WA - Living in Washington: Its Geography, Resources and the Economy
WA - Exploring the Pacific Northwest Prior to Statehood
Social Studies EALR 1: CIVICS
Component 1.1
GLE 1.1.1
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GLE 1.1.2
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Component 1.2
GLE 1.2.1
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GLE 1.2.2
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GLE 1.2.3
No Grade 4 GLE
GLE 1.2.4
No Grade 4 GLE
The student understands and applies knowledge of government, law, politics, and the nation’s fundamental documents to make
decisions about local, national, and international issues and to demonstrate thoughtful, participatory citizenship.
Understands key ideals and principles of the United States, including those in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution,
and other fundamental documents.
Explains that personal rights include not being deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law
(section three).
Explains that every person has the right to freely speak, write, and publish on all subjects (section five).
Understands the key ideal of rights set forth in Article I of the Washington State Constitution.
Explains how the right to religious choice protects people’s freedom (section eleven).
Critiques how well the seatbelt law of Washington State promotes the personal right to life (RCW 46.61.688).
Critiques how the legal ban on smoking in public places in Washington State promotes the personal right to life
(RCW 70.160.030).
Understands how and why state and tribal governments make, interpret, and carry out rules and laws.
Understands the purposes, organizations, and functions of governments, laws and political systems.
Understands that governments are organized into local, state, tribal, and national levels
.
Evaluates the effectiveness of a law or policy by explaining how the law promotes ideals.
Explains the hierarchy of state government over local government.
Explains how tribal governments are sovereign, separate form state and local governments.
Explains how Senate Bill 5610 related to promoting salmon recovery became a law in 2005.
Explains how the local tribal council created its code of laws.
Explains how the seatbelt law attempts to solve the problem of injury collisions.
Identifies and explains how the voters of Washington State participated in making the law that banned smoking in
public places.
Washington State
Social Studies GLEs
Grade 4
Fall 2008
Social Studies EALR 1: CIVICS
Component 1.3
GLE 1.3.1
No Grade 4 GLE
Component 1.4
GLE 1.4.1
Examples
Understands the purpose, organization of international relationships and United States foreign policy
.
Understands civic involvement.
Explains that attending a town meeting can help a citizen stay informed about public issues.
Explains why voting is a civic duty.
Understands that civic participation involves being informed about public issues and voting in elections.
Explains that reading the newspaper or watching the news can help a citizen stay informed about public issues.
The student understands and applies knowledge of government, law, politics, and the nation’s fundamental documents to make
decisions about local, national, and international issues and to demonstrate thoughtful, participatory citizenship.
Washington State
Social Studies GLEs
Grade 4
Fall 2008
Social Studies EALR 2: ECONOMICS
Component 2.1
GLE 2.1.1
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Component 2.2
GLE 2.2.1
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GLE 2.2.2
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Understands that people have to make choices between wants and needs and evaluate the outcomes of those choices.
Explains the components of Washington State’s agricultural industry including the natural resources of land and
water, the farmers and laborers, the distributors, and the consumers of agricultural products.
Understands that the economy in Washington State relies on trade with Pacific Rim countries.
Examines how technology and transportation industries impact the economy of Western Washington.
Explains how clothing, toys, and electronic goods are brought to Washington State from Pacific Rim countries to
be sold to people in the state.
Understands and analyzes the costs and benefits of people’s decision to move and relocate to meet their needs and wants.
Examines the costs to pioneers on the Oregon Trail along the Oregon Trail versus the benefits they received
once pioneers reached their destination.
Understands how economic systems function.
Examines the costs and benefits of the Oregon Trail to tribes living the Pacific Northwest.
The student applies understanding of economic concepts and systems to analyze decision-making and the interactions between
individuals, households, businesses, governments, and societies.
Examines how irrigating the semi-desert climate of Easter Washington has impacted the economies of Indian
tribes and other residents in Washington State.
Understands the basic elements of Washington State’s economic system, including businesses, industry, natural resources,
and labor.
Explains how timber and agricultural products from Washington State are sold to other Pacific Rim countries and
transported via cargo ships across the Pacific Ocean.
Explains components of Washington State’s timber industry including the trees, workers, production mills, and
consumer wood products.
Compares how the geography, available natural resources, climate, and the available labor force affect the
economic opportunities available in rural and urban Washington State.
Washington State
Social Studies GLEs
Grade 4
Fall 2008
Social Studies EALR 2: ECONOMICS
Component 2.3
GLE 2.3.1
Component 2.4
GLE 2.4.1
Examples
Explains that available labor resources determine economic opportunities for the agricultural industry.
Understands the economic issues and problems that all societies face.
No Grade 4 GLE
Draws conclusions about how the economy in each region of Washington State could change as a result of the
depletion of natural resources specific to the regions.
Explains how climate influences the production of goods and has an impact on the sustainability of the economy
for the agricultural industry of Washington State.
Explains how dams impact the economic well-being of regions in Washington State.
Understands the government’s role in the economy.
Understands how geography, natural resources, climate, and available labor contribute to the sustainability of the economy of
regions in Washington State.
The student applies understanding of economic concepts and systems to analyze decision-making and the interactions between
individuals, households, businesses, governments, and societies.
Washington State
Social Studies GLEs
Grade 4
Fall 2008
Social Studies EALR 3: GEOGRAPHY
Component 3.1
GLE 3.1.1
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GLE 3.1.2
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Component 3.2
GLE 3.2.1
GLE 3.2.2
GLE 3.2.3
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Component 3.3
GLE 3.3.1
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Constructs and uses maps to explain the movement of people.
The student uses a spatial perspetive to make reasoned decisions by applying the concepts of location, region, and movement
and demonstrating knowledge of how geographic features and human cultures impact environments.
Understands the location, physical characteristics, cultural characteristics, and spatial patterns of places and regions on the
Earth's surface.
Understands the physical, political, and cultural characteristics of places, regions, and people in the
Pacific Northwest, including the difference between cities, states, and countries.
Understands the interactions between humans and environments.
No Grade 4 GLE
Explains the differences in the physical characteristics, including landofrms, climate, and natural resources, of
the different regions within Washington States.
Explains the cultural characteristics, including disribution of population and languages, of the people in
Washington States.
Constructs maps of the Oregon Trail showing and labeling the starting location, the destination, the route,
geographic features that affected the route, and a title, captions, or symbols that describes the movement of the
settlers.
Explains why indegenous peoples were forced to move to reservation land that was neither fertile nor profitable.
Explains that learning about the geography of Washington State helps us understand global trade.
Explains how the climate and land in Eastern Washington allow farmers to grow apples for trade to other countries
Explains how the ports of Tacoma and Seattle enable Washington to be a gateway for products to and from
Pacific Rim Countries.
Understands the geographic context of global issues and events.
Understands that the geographic features of Washington State have influenced the movement of people.
No Grade 4 GLE
Explains the location of Washington in relation to other states and countries.
Explains why people traveling on the Oregon Trail made the choice to move west because of a need for available
land.
Washington State
Social Studies GLEs
Grade 4
Fall 2008
Social Studies EALR 4: HISTORY
Component 4.1
GLE 4.1.1
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GLE 4.1.2
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Component 4.2
GLE 4.2.1
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GLE 4.2.2
GLE 4.2.3
Understand and analyzes causal factors that have shaped major events in history.
Understands and analyzes how individuals caused change in Washington State history.
Growth of northwest coastal and plateau tribes prior to traties (time immemorial to 1854).
Martime and overland exploration, encounter, and trade (1774 - 1849)
Explains how the Hudson’s Bay Company establishment of Fort Vancouver in 1825 helps to define the history of
the Pacific Northwest from 1811 to 1889 as a time of immigration and settlement.
Explains how the growth of major tribes helps to define the history of the Pacific Northwest prior to 1854.
Explains how the Lewis and Clark expedition help to define the history of the Pacific Northwest from 1774 to
1849 as a time of exploration and encounter.
Territory and treaty-making (1854 – 1889).
Immigration and settlement (1811-1899)
Understands historical chronology.
Explains the contributions Mother Joseph of the Sisters of Providence made to Eastern Washington, including
building schools and orphanages.
Examines how Geography Washington Bush promoted the movement of African American people in Washington
State.
Understands and creates timelines to show how historical events are organized into time periods and
eras.
Understands how the following themes and developments help to define eras in Washington State
History from time immemorial to 1889:
Constructs a timeline with events from the treaty-making ear that are related to artifacts and/or primary sources.
Constructs a timeline with events from the Lewis and Clark Expedition that are related to artifacts and/or primary
sources.
No Grade 4 GLE
The student understands and applies knowledge of historical thinking, chronology, eras, turning points, major ideas, individuals,
and themes of local, Washington State, tribal, United States, and world history in order to evaluate how history shapes the present
and future.
Examines how Chief Joseph helped shape the development of the Pacific Northwest.
No Grade 4 GLE
Washington State
Social Studies GLEs
Grade 4
Fall 2008
Social Studies EALR 4: HISTORY
Component 4.3
GLE 4.3.1
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GLE 4.3.2
Component 4.4
GLE 4.4.1
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Understands that there are multiple perspectives regarding the interpretation of historical events and creates an historical
account using multiple sources.
Compares the account of the Whitman Massacre from the perspective of the missionaries and the perspective of
the Cayuse native people.
Constructs an historical account of Lewis and Clark’s exploration of the Pacific Northwest using evidence from
artifacts and primary sources, such as journal entries.
No Grade 4 GLE
Uses history to understand the present and plan for the future.
Understands that significant historical events in Washington State have implications for current
decisions.
Explains how the treaties with native tribes led to the Boldt decision and current tribal fishing rights.
The student understands and applies knowledge of historical thinking, chronology, eras, turning points, major ideas, individuals,
and themes of local, Washington State, tribal, United States, and world history in order to evaluate how history shapes the p
Constructs an historical account of the Pig War using evidence from artifacts and primary sources.
Constructs an historical account of how treaties affected changes in land ownership for the native tribes in the
Pacific Northwest using evidence from mulitple sources.
Understands that there are multiple perspectives and interpretations of historical events.
Washington State
Social Studies GLEs
Grade 4
Fall 2008
Social Studies EARL 5: SS SKILLS
Component 5.1
GLE 5.1.1
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GLE 5.1.2
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Component 5.2
GLE 5.2.1
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GLE 5.2.2
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Component 5.3
GLE 5.3.1
Component 5.4
GLE 5.4.1
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GLE 5.4.2
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Deliberates public issues.
Develops a research question on people’s experiences traveling on the Oregon Trail.
Makes a list of the main ideas from an artifact to find out accurate information on the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Explains how the state law limited cell phone usage in cars related to the concepts of individual and public
safety.
Explains how a school rule prohibiting running in the hallways relates to the concepts of rule of law and freedom.
Understands the main ideas from an artifact, primary source, or secondary source describing an issue or event.
Creates and uses a research question to conduct research on an issue or event.
The student understands and applies reasoning skills to conduct research, deliberate, form, and evaluate positions through the
process of reading, writing, and communicating.
Uses critical reasoning skills to analyze and evaluate positions.
Completes a list of resources on the Pig War including the title, author, type of source, date published, and
publisher for each source.
Summarizes the main ideas from a secondary source on why people traveled on the Oregon Trail by creating a
web of information.
Writes a clear, well-reasoned conclusion about the challenges pioneers faced when movig west, supported by
diaries, letters, and journals.
Draws clear, well-reasoned conclusions and provides explanations that are supported by artifacts and/or primary sources in a
paper or presentation.
Prepares a list of resources including the title, author, type of source, date published, and publisher for each source.
No Grade 4 GLE
Creates a product that uses social studies content to support a thesis and presents the product in an appropriate manner to a
meaningful audience.
Presents a clear, well-reasoned explanation of the causes of the Pig War supported by maps and other artifacts.
Determines the accuracy of resources by comparing multiple versions fo the Whitman Massacre.
Evaluates the accuracy of one’s understanding of concepts used in documents and sources.
Understands the concepts used in documents and sources.
Develops a research question to study the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Uses inquiry-based research.