4-Social-Studies-March

Main Concept

 * 1) Industrial Growth and Expansion
 * 2) Urbanization: Economic, Political, and Social Impacts

Theme/Content Skills

 * Technology
 * Change
 * Human Systems
 * Environment and Society
 * 1) Industrial Growth and Expansion
 * Transportation, inventions, communication, and technology (e.g., 1800s - Erie Canal, railroads, steamboats, turnpikes, telegraph, cable; 1900s - automobiles, subways, air travel, seaways, telephones, radios and televisions, computer)
 * Immigration and Migration (e.g., Ellis Island; the mass starvation in Ireland, 1845-50; forced relocation of Native American Indians in New York State)
 * The important contributions of immigrants to New York State
 * Geographic influences of industrialization and expansion (e.g., natural resources, location); the interactions between geographic factors

2. Urbanization: economic, political, and social impacts
 * Rural to urban to suburban migration
 * Economic interdependence (e.g., resource use; from farm to market)
 * Ways of learning and public education in our community and State
 * The labor movement and child labor


 * Erie Canal
 * immigrant
 * immigration
 * migration
 * Ellis Island
 * rural
 * urban
 * suburban

Holidays

 * St. Patrick's Day

Field Trip Suggestions

 * Ellis Island
 * New York Transit Museum