MA Curriculum Standard: Science, Technology and Engineering (STE) 2017 History and Social Science (HSS)

Pre-K

• Observe plants & animals, the moon & sun
• Investigate pitch & volume, shadow & light, liquids & solids & how things move
• Sort by observable properties

K

• Plants and animals basic needs and how they meet them
• How plants and animals change their environment
• Effect of temperature on weather and materials (solid/liquid)
• Investigate motion of objects by changing the strength and direction of push and pull

Grade 1 (Patterns)

• Movement of sun, mood, stars
• Seasonal changes in weather (temp./rainfall)
• How animals use body parts & senses to survive
• Observe & classify plants & animals (common behavior & appearance)

Grade 2 Wholes & Parts

• Environment as provider of food, water and shelter for living things
• Landforms and water bodies and how they are shaped by wind and flowing water
• Classify materials by similar properties & functions

MA Curriculum Standard: STE, HSS

Maritime history of Newbury/Newburyport; history of Marine Society; history of U.S.Customs Service & Custom House building in Nbpt.; highlights of museum collection.

MA Curriculum Standard: History and Social Science (HSS)

Grade 3
Topic 5 (3.T5)No. 2 Using visual primary sources such as paintings, artifacts, historic buildings, or text sources, analyze details of daily life, housing, education, and work of the Puritan men, women, and children of the Mass. Bay Colony, including self-employed farmers and artisans, indentured servants, employees, and enslaved people.

No. 5 Explain the importance of maritime commerce and the practice of bartering -exchanging goods or services without payment in money – in the development of the economy of colonial Massachusetts, using materials from historical societies and history museums as reference materials.

1. The fishing and shipbuilding industries
2. Trans-Atlantic and Caribbean trade, especially the Triangular Trade that included Africans to be sold as slaves in the colonies and goods such as sugar and cotton procured by slave labor to be sold in the colonies and in Europe
3. The development of seaport cities of New Bedford, Newburyport, Gloucester, Salem and Boston

Possible dates for timeline activity

*12,000 BCE – Indigenous people arrive
1635 – Newbury settled
1675 – King Philip’s War
1764 – Newburyport separates
1775 – Arnold to Quebec
*1776 – Privateering/Rev. War
*1789 – U.S. Customs Dist. est. in Nbpt./Trade
*1791 – Revenue Cutter Monroe built (birth of Coast Guard)
*1794 – Orlando Merrill invents lift, or waterline, model
*1812 – Capt. Nichols & War of 1812
*1835 – Custom House built
1851 – Newburyport becomes a city
*1863 – Sonora burned by Alabama (portrait of Anna Schmidt another victim)

MA Curriculum Standard: HSS

Grade 5

• Early Colonization & Growth (English & Native people, why colonies established, triangular trade, enslaved and free African Americans) Reasons for Revolution, the Revolutionary War and the Formation of Government.
• Growth of the Republic -War of 1812, westward expansion, textile industry, whaling, shipping, China Trade (short and long term benefits of these
  industries)
• Slavery, the Legacy of the Civil War and the Struggle for Civil Rights

Grades 6 & 7: World Geography & Cultures (includes ancient civilizations)

Grade 8: Civics

High School: U.S. History, World History, U.S. Government & Politics (elective), Economics (elective)

MA Curriculum Standard: HSS

Grade 3

Topic 5 (3.T5)
No. 5 Explain the importance of maritime commerce and the practice of bartering – exchanging goods or services without payment in money – in the development of the economy of colonial Massachusetts, using materials from historical societies and history museums as reference materials.

1. The fishing and shipbuilding industries
2. Trans-Atlantic and Caribbean trade, especially the Triangular Trade that included Africans to be sold as slaves in the colonies and goods such as sugar and cotton procured by slave labor to be sold in the colonies and in Europe
3. The development of seaport cities of New Bedford, Newburyport, Gloucester, Salem and Boston

Grade 5

• Early Colonization & Growth (English & Native people, why colonies established, triangular trade, enslaved and free African Americans) Reasons for Revolution, the Revolutionary War and the Formation of Government.
• Growth of the Republic -War of 1812, westward expansion, textile industry, whaling, shipping, China Trade (short and long term benefits of these industries)
• Slavery, the Legacy of the Civil War and the Struggle for Civil Rights

MA Curriculum Standard:

Age appropriate activities.

For any work of art students use thinking skills, art principals (line, shape, form, value, space, color, texture) and knowledge of history to make inferences about why the work was created, the story it tells, and why it is important to know about and preserve. Bloom: remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, create.

MA Curriculum Standard: History and Social Science (HSS)

Grade 3

Topic 5 (3.T5)

No. 2 Using visual primary sources such as paintings, artifacts, historic buildings, or text sources, analyze details of daily life, housing, education, and work of the Puritan men, women, and children of the Mass. Bay Colony, including self-employed farmers and artisans, indentured servants, employees, and enslaved people.

No. 5 Explain the importance of maritime commerce and the practice of bartering – exchanging goods or services without payment in money – in the development of the economy of colonial Massachusetts, using materials from historical societies and history museums as reference materials

• The fishing and shipbuilding industries
• Trans-Atlantic and Caribbean trade, especially the Triangular Trade that included Africans to be sold as slaves in the colonies and goods such as sugar and cotton procured by slave labor to be sold in the colonies and in Europe
• The development of seaport cities of New Bedford, Newburyport, Gloucester, Salem and Boston

MA Curriculum Standard: History and Social Science (HSS)

Grade 5

• Early Colonization & Growth (English & Native people, why colonies established, triangular trade, enslaved and free African Americans) Reasons for Revolution, the Revolutionary War and the Formation of Government.
• Growth of the Republic -War of 1812, westward expansion, textile industry, whaling, shipping, China Trade (short and long term benefits of these industries)
• Slavery, the Legacy of the Civil War and the Struggle for Civil Rights