Social Studies - 4th Grade (2024)
Lesson Plans

Strand 2: Pre-Expansion (Before 1847)

Students will learn that while recorded history spans only a few centuries, humans have lived in the land now called Utah for thousands of years. They will recognize that for centuries the historic tribal groups of Utah—the Goshute, Navajo (Diné), Paiute, Shoshone, and Ute—adapted to their ever-changing environment. Students will understand that more adaptations occurred due to contact and trade while Utah was part of the Spanish Empire and later Mexico. Students will identify the factors that encouraged early trade and exploration among varied explorers and frontiersmen.

Compelling Questions:

• What can the study of archaeology teach us about the economies, communities, and other aspects of the cultures of indigenous Native American tribes within Utah?
• How did the arrival of European and American trappers and traders alter the human geography of Utah?
• What may happen when two or more cultures, with significant differences, come into contact?

Standard 4.2.1

Use evidence (for example, artifacts, texts, oral traditions, geographic inquiry) to make inferences about, and explain the importance of, the geography of the land that would become Utah in the culture of one or more prehistoric or historic Native American cultures.

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