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Overarching
Question:
Why
do we need government?
Enduring
Understandings:
Government is designed to protect the rights and
property of its citizens.
Our nation was founded on principals identified in
the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, including the Bill of
Rights.
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Overarching Question:
How
do maps and globes help us better understand Massachusetts?
Enduring Understandings:
Maps are useful tools.
Maps can be used to learn about
our town, state, country, and world.
Maps are representations of
geographic information.
Massachusetts maps have changed throughout history to reflect changes in
population and use of land.
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Overarching Question:
Why does the past matter?
What is history?
Enduring Understandings:
Native Americans were the first
people who lived in all areas of Massachusetts.
Native Americans adapted to
different environments.
Native Americans helped people
face the challenges of adapting to the new world.
The people from Massachusetts came
from many different places for many different reasons. (Puritans/Pilgrims)
Many people in Massachusetts
contributed to the development of the state.
What you do today is the
history of tomorrow.
Many political, economic, and
military developments led to the American Revolution.
The Declaration of
Independence, The Constitution, and The Bill of Rights are key American
documents
Environment
affects the way people live.
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Overarching Question:
How
do people get the goods and services they need and want?
Enduring Understandings:
People make choices because
they cannot have everything they want.
All choices require giving
something up.
Tax is money people pay to the
government for the greater good.
Money is used as a means for
getting goods and services people want and need.
Governments use taxes to pay
for things a community needs and wants.
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