Rockingham County Public Schools

USI.1The student will demonstrate skills for historical and geographical analysis and responsible citizenship, including the ability to
a) identify and interpret primary and secondary source documents to increase understanding of events and life in United States history to 1865;
b) make connections between the past and the present;
c) sequence events in United States history from pre-Columbian times to 1865;
d) interpret ideas and events from different historical perspectives;
e) evaluate and discuss issues orally and in writing;
f) analyze and interpret maps to explain relationships among landforms, water features, climatic characteristics, and historical events;
g) distinguish between parallels of latitude and meridians of longitude;
h) interpret patriotic slogans and excerpts from notable speeches and documents;
i) identify the costs and benefits of specific choices made, including the consequences, both intended and unintended, of the decisions and how people and nations responded to positive and negative incentives.

1. Beacon's Primary vs Secondary Sources Interactive Learning

1. Library of Congress's Primary Documents American Revolution to Civil War

2. 100 Primary Source Documents for elementary

1. Continent SOL Review Notebook (Zipped-use Firefox)

2. Landforms SOL Review Notebook (Zipped-use Firefox)

3. SOL USI.1 Sequencing Events Notebook

4. Latitude and Longitude Instructional Notebook

5. Latitude and Longitude Senteo/SMART Response

6. Locating Positions on a Map Notebook

7. What's my Line Review Fun, interactive Quiz on Maps

1. Basic Map Skills Instructional PowerPoint

2. Map Skills Instructional PowerPoint

3. Map Skills Test Review PowerPoint

4. Good 3rd Grade Map Skills Review PowerPoint

1. Maps: Types, Symbols, and Terms 18min.

2. Understanding and Using Maps and Globes 41min.

3. Finding your Way: Using Maps and Globes 22min 36 sec.

1. Excellent Henrico Worksheets and Answer Keys

2. Superb Suffolk Teaching Activities and Resources

USI.2 The student will use maps, globes, photographs, pictures, or tables to
a) locate the seven continents and five oceans;
b) locate and describe the location of the geographic regions of North America: Coastal Plain, Appalachian Mountains, Canadian Shield, Interior Lowlands, Great Plains, Rocky Mountains, Basin and Range, and Coastal Range;
c) locate and identify the water features important to the early history of the United States: Great Lakes, Mississippi River, Missouri River, Ohio River, Columbia River, Colorado River, Rio Grande, St. Lawrence River, Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, and Gulf of Mexico;
d) recognize key geographic features on maps, diagrams, and/or photographs.

1. Suffolk Resources

2. Continents Hangman Game

3. Oceans & Geography Test

4. Matching Regions SOL Game

5. SOL USI.2 Jeopardy Game for 1 or 2 players

6. Ordered List of Continents Match the numbers to the continents on the map

7. Continents Matching Game SOL Continent practice

8. Geographic Regions of North America Millionaire Game with map of regions

9. Ordered List of Regions North American Regions

10. Millionaire Game on regions Vocabulary & descriptions

11. Rivers Matching Game SOL

12. Double Jeopardy SOL Game

13. Matching Game

14. Number the regions Game

15. SOL US1.2 Pictures of 8 regions 29 questionTest

16. SOL US Geography Quiz/Game

1. 8 regions of North America Adobe PDF document

2. SOL USI.2 Regions Web outline in Adobe PDF

3. SOL Geographic Regions Web outline in PDF

4. Major Bodies of Water Web outline in PDF

5. SOL Water Features Web outline in PDF

6. American History Research Information

1. Regions, Native Americans and Explorers Review Notebook (Zipped file-use Firefox)

2. SOL USI.2-5 Review (Zipped file-use Firefox)

3. Senteo (SMART Response) SOL Test

4. Senteo SOL Assessment 1 Test

5. SOL Senteo Test (Zipped-use Firefox)

6. USI.2 abc Senteo Review (Zipped-use Firefox)

7. USI.2 Excellent Review of 8 regions (Zipped-use Firefox)

8. Excellent Instructional Continents & Oceans Notebook

9. 8 Regions SOL Notebook (Zipped file-use Firefox)

1. US Geography PowerPoint Continents and Regions Teaching powerpoint with quiz at end

2. SOL Jeopardy PowerPoint Regions, continents, and rivers

3. Interactive PowerPoint Interactive Game covers the 8 regions

4. Geography Review PowerPoint

5. Regions instructional with great pictures for SOLS

6. Hollywood Squares SOL US region description questions

7. Rivers and Lakes including St. Lawrence River Review PowerPoint

8. 8 Regions of US SOL Instructional PowerPoint

9. Name that Region Review PowerPoint

10. Rivers and Waterways Instructional PowerPoint

11. Regions SOL Quiz PowerPoint

12. US Geography SOL Quiz PowerPoint

13. US Geography Review PowerPoint

1. Geography Clipart Geography

2. Excellent Henrico Worksheets and Answer Keys

3. Superb Suffolk Teaching Activities and Resources

4. Geographic Features on Maps, see USI.1

USI.3 The student will demonstrate knowledge of how early cultures developed in North America by
a) describing how archaeologists have recovered material evidence of ancient settlements, including Cactus Hill in Virginia.
b) locating where the American Indians lived, with emphasis on the Arctic (Inuit), Northwest (Kwakiutl), Plains (Lakota), Southwest (Pueblo), and Eastern Woodlands (Iroquois);
c) describing how the American Indians used the resources in their environment.

1. Native American Groups Millionaire Game

2. American Indian Hangman Game

3. Matching Dwellings to Native American group Match the picture dwelling to the correct group

4. North American Patterns Multiple-choice quiz

5. Millionaire Game on American Indians Game

6. Native American SOL Jeopardy Game

7. Native Americans Hangman Game

8. 26 Question Test Multiple-choice

9. Native American Test 26 Questions

10. Geographic Regions & Native Americans Millionaire Game

11. Native American Groups Millionaire Game

1. Location of American Indian groups Adobe PDF document

2. Geography & Climate Adobe PDF document

3. SOL Native American Study Guide Word Document

4. Lots of Kid Friendly Native American Links

5. American History Research Information

1. USI. 3 SMARTboard Notebook Instructional Lesson

2. Regions, Native Americans and Explorers Review Notebook (Zipped file-use Firefox)

3. SOL USI.2-5 Review (Zipped file-use Firefox)

4. SOL USI.3 Inuit and Iroquois SMARTboard Notebook

5. Senteo SOL Native Americans Notebook

6. SOL 5.3 Senteo (SMART Response) Test

7. SOL Senteo (SMART Response) Assessment Test

8. First Americans SOL Instructional Lesson

9. Geography & First American SOL Senteo (SMART Response) Test

10. Native American SOL Senteo Test (zipped-use Firefox)

11. Native American Unit Instructional Notebook

12. Native Americans SOL Notebook

1. Good Teaching Native American PowerPoint Pictures and information on different groups

2. Native American Jeopardy Game PowerPoint

3. US1.3 Review PowerPoint Information and pictures

4. Native Americans SOL Instructional PowerPoint

1. Match Native American tribes to shelters (Picture Preview)

2. Drag tribe to the location where they lived (Picture Preview)

1. Native American Project in Word

2. Kidpix Drawing Native American clothing, housing, geography etc. Lesson Plan

1. Excellent Henrico Worksheets and Answer Keys

2. Superb Suffolk Teaching Activities and Resources

USI.4 The student will demonstrate knowledge of European exploration in North America and West Africa by
a) describing the motivations for, obstacles to, and accomplishments of the Spanish, French, Portuguese, and English explorations;
b) describing cultural and economic interactions between Europeans and American Indians that led to cooperation and conflict, with emphasis on the American Indian concept of land;
c) identifying the location and describing the characteristics of West African societies (Ghana, Mali, and Songhai) and their interactions with traders.

1. Matching European Explorers Game

2. Early Explorer Matching Game

3. 25 Question SOL Quiz Multiple-choice test

4. 15 Question SOL Test Mutliple-choice quiz

5. Explorer Jeopardy Game

6. Matching Explorers SOL people

7. Explorers of North America Matching Game

8. Eight Question Quiz Multiple-choice

9. Explorer Millionaire Game

10. Matching Explorer Game

1. Explorer Links for Kids

2. Ipad Nation Creation App

1. Why Explorers Explored the World (Thinkquest) Info on all explorers with easy to read web pages

2. West Africa Information

3. Explorer Study Guide SOL Study Guide

4. Explorer Study Guide in Word

5. American History Research Information

1. Regions, Native Americans and Explorers Review Notebook (Zipped file-use Firefox)

2. SOL USI.2-5 Review (Zipped file-use Firefox)

3. Senteo SOL Explorer Test (Zipped-use Firefox)

1. Geography & Exploration SOL Jeopardy PowerPoint

2. Exploration Instructional Powerpoint

3. Explorer SOL PowerPoint

4. Explorer Jeopardy Game PowerPoint

5. SOL Explorer Instructional PowerPoint

6. Explorers and Interactions Instructional PowerPoint

7. Dungeon Multiple-choice Explorer Game PowerPoint

8. Geography & Exploration Game PowerPoint

1. Excellent Henrico Worksheets and Answer Keys

2. Superb Suffolk Teaching Activities and Resources

USI.5 The student will demonstrate knowledge of the factors that shaped colonial America by
a) describing the religious and economic events and conditions that led to the colonization of America;
b) describing life in the New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern colonies, with emphasis on how people interacted with their environment to produce goods and services, including examples of specialization and interdependence;
c) describing colonial life in America from the perspectives of large landowners, farmers, artisans, women, free African Americans, indentured servants, and enslaved African Americans;
d) identifying the political and economic relationships between the colonies and Great Britain.

1. Colonial Regions 18 Multiple-choice Test

2. American Colonial Government & Policies Vocabulary Matching

3. Colonial Challenge Millionaire Game

4. 31 Question Test Fill in the blank

5. Colonial Millionaire Game

6. Colonial Test 10 multiple-choice

7. Seven Question Test

8. Early Colonies Test 12 questions

1. 13 Colonies Interactive Maps

2. Ipad App on Early Jamestown Textbook Information, pictures and movie clips

3. Ipad Nation Creation App

1. USI.5 Study Guides & Worksheet in Word

2. 13 Colonies Study Guides (Glogster)

3. American History Research Information

1. US 1.5 Colonial Instruction and Review Notebook Interactive Lesson

2. SOL USI.2-5 Review (Zipped file-use Firefox)

3. 13 Colonies Match states to USA map

4. Colonies Senteo SMARTboard Notebook

5. 13 Colonies match state names to state

6. 13 Colonies lesson matching

7. SOL Senteo (SMART Response) Assessment Test

8. Senteo SOL Test (Zipped-use Firefox)

9. Colonial America SOL Notebook

10. SOL Colonial America Review Notebook

11. 13 Colonies Review Differences Notebook

12. Colonial Days Compare Native Americans to Colonist Instructional Notebook

1. Colonial America SOL Jeopardy PowerPoint

2. 13 Colonies Instructional New England, Middle and Southern Colonies PowerPoint

3. Roanoke-Jamestown Instructional PowerPoint

4. Colonial Maps Review PowerPoint

5. Colonies and why Established Instructional PowerPoint

6. New England, Mid-Atlantic and Southern Colonies PowerPoint

7. Why People Came to the Colonies PowerPoint

8. Colonial America Game PowerPoint

1. USI. 5 Lesson Plan Ideas in Word

2. Kidpix Drawing Lesson Plan

1. 13 Colonies Map Printout

2. Excellent Henrico Worksheets and Answer Keys

3. Superb Suffolk Teaching Activities and Resources

USI.6 The student will demonstrate knowledge of the causes and results of the American Revolution by
a) identifying the issues of dissatisfaction that led to the American Revolution;
b) identifying how political ideas shaped the revolutionary movement in America and led to the Declaration of Independence;
c) describing key events and the roles of key individuals in the American Revolution, with emphasis on George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Patrick Henry;
d) explaining reasons why the colonies were able to defeat Great Britain.

1. Matching American Revolution Game

2. American Revolution Millionaire Game

3. American Revolution Key Events Matching Game

4. 33 Fill in the Blank Test

5. American Rev. Millionaire 2 Game

6. Millionaire Game on Am. Rev. Events

7. SOL USI.6 Matching Game

8. USI.6 SOL Millionaire Game

1. Ipad The Revolution: Interactive Guide App

2. Learn about the Revolutionary War thru online Game

3. Ipad American Revolution Interactive Timeline App

1. SOL Revolutionary War Study Guide in Word

2. American History Research Information

1. Revolutionary War USI.6 SOL Review Notebook (Zipped file-use Firefox)

2. USI.6 Revolutionary War SMARTboard Notebook

3. SOL Senteo (SMART Response) Assessment Test

4. The Road to the Revolution Instructional Notebook

5. Causes of the American Revolution Review Notebook

1. American Revolution Powerpoint Online

2. Hollywood Squares American Revolution Review PowerPoint

3. American Revolution & New Nation Jeopardy SOL PowerPoint

4. French & Indian War Instructional PowerPoint

5. Events leading to Revolution Instructional PowerPoint

6. American Revolution Jeopardy Review PowerPoint

7. US Revolution SOL Notes Instructional PowerPoint

8. American Revolution Review PowerPoint

1. The Revolutionary War: The War and a New Nation (20 min)

2. Six Revolutionary War Figures (15 min)

1. Excellent Henrico Worksheets and Answer Keys

2. Superb Suffolk Teaching Activities and Resources

USI.7 The student will demonstrate knowledge of the challenges faced by the new nation by:
a) identifying the weaknesses of the government established by the Articles of Confederation;
b) describing the historical development of the Constitution of the United States;
c) describing the major accomplishments of the first five presidents of the United States.

1. Hamiliton vs. Jefferson 10 Multiple-choice test

2. Issues & Events Faced by first 5 Presidents 10 Multiple-choice test

3. Articles of Confederation & Bill of Rights 24 Multiple-choice test

4. 47 Fill in the blank Test

5. Matching Test

1. Historical Documents Ben's Guide for Kids

2. National vs. State Government Ben's Guide for Kids

3. SOL Consitution Study Guide in Word

4. SOL 5 Presidents Study Guide in Word

5. American History Research Information

1. Birth of a Nation SOL Review (Zipped file-use Firefox)

2. 3 Branches of Government (Free login to SMART Exchange required)

3. Three Branches of Government Smartboard Notebook

4. SOL Senteo (SMART Response) Assessment Test

5. Senteo SOL Notebook Test (Zipped-use Firefox)

6. Our Nation's First Plan of Government Review Notebook

7. Good overview of how US Government Evolved Instructional Notebook

8. Constitution Jeopardy Game

9. Understanding and Explaining the 1st Amendment Instructional Notebook

10. 3 Branches of Government & Bill of Rights Notebook

1. American Revolution & New Nation Jeopardy SOL PowerPoint

2. Hollywood Squares New Nation Review PowerPoint

3. Birth of a Nation Instructional PowerPoint

4. American Revolution & New Nation Game SOL PowerPoint

5. New Nation Game PowerPoint

1. Three Branches of Government sort (Picture Preview)

2. Thomas Jefferson vs. Alexander Hamiliton (Picture Preview)

1. Excellent Henrico Worksheets and Answer Keys

2. Superb Suffolk Teaching Activities and Resources

USI.8 The student will demonstrate knowledge of westward expansion and reform in America from 1801 to 1861 by:
a) describing territorial expansion and how it affected the political map of the United States, with emphasis on the Louisiana Purchase, the Lewis and Clark expedition, and the acquisitions of Florida, Texas, Oregon, and California;
b) identifying the geographic and economic factors that influenced the westward movement of settlers;
c) describing the impact of inventions, including the cotton gin, the reaper, the steamboat, and the steam locomotive, on life in America;
d) identifying the main ideas of the abolitionist and women’s suffrage movements.

1. Westward Millionaire Game

2. Westward 30 Question Test Multiple-choice

3. Matching Westward Movement Game

4. Millionaire Westward Game

5. Test on Westward Expansion Fill in the Blank

1. Cotton Gin Webquest

2. Ipad Westward Expansion app on maps, timelines, and review questions

3. Ipad Oregon Trail app Game

4. Ipad Nation Creation App

1.American Inventor's Chart Robert Fulton, Eli Whitney etc.

2. SOL Westward Expansion & Inventions Study Guide in Word

3. American History Research Information

1. Lewis and Clark Expedition

2. SOL Senteo (SMART Response) Assessment Test

3. Lewis & Clark & Louisana Purchase Instructional Notebook

4. Lewis & Clark Senteo/SMART Response

5. Gold Rush Westward Expansion Review Notebook

6. Inventions of the Industrial Revolution Instructional Notebook

7. Abolitionist vs Suffrage Movement Review Notebook

8. Women's Right to Vote-Susan B. Anthony Instructional Notebook

1. SOL Westward Expansion Instructional & Review PowerPoint

2. Daniel Boone & Lewis & Clark Instructional PowerPoint

3. Hollywood Squares SOL Review 2 PowerPoint

4. Hollywood Squares SOL Review PowerPoint

5. Hollywood Squares SOL Review 3 PowerPoint

6. Hollywood Squares SOL Review 4 PowerPoint

7. Westward Expansion Instructional PowerPoint

8. Manifest Destiny Instructional PowerPoint

9. Abolitionist Movement Instructional PowerPoint

10. Westward Discussion PowerPoint

11. Westward Explansion Jeopardy PowerPoint

1. Excellent Henrico Worksheets and Answer Keys

2. Superb Suffolk Teaching Activities and Resources

USI.9 The student will demonstrate knowledge of the causes, major events, and effects of the Civil War by:
a) describing the cultural, economic, and constitutional issues that divided the nation;
b) explaining how the issues of states’ rights and slavery increased sectional tensions;
c) identifying on a map the states that seceded from the Union and those that remained in the Union;
d) describing the roles of Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, and Frederick Douglass in events leading to and during the war;
e) using maps to explain critical developments in the war, including major battles;
f) describing the effects of war from the perspectives of Union and Confederate soldiers (including African American soldiers), women, and enslaved African Americans.

1. Lincoln or Lee 10 Question Quiz

2. Civil War Test Fill in the Blank

3. Civil War Millionaire Game

4. Matching Civil War Game

5. Millionaire Civil War Game

6. Civil War Matching Game

7. Civil War Multiple-choice Test

1. Underground Railroad Webquest

2. Ipad Nation Creation App

1. Civil War for Kids Research web page

2. Reasons for the Civil War Study Guide in Word

3. Civil War Battles & Leaders Study Guide in Word

4. Cultural & Economic Differences on Civil War

5. American History Research Information

1. SOL Civil War SMARTboard Notebook

2. Overview Civil War SMARTboard Notebook (zipped file-use Firefox)

3. Civil War Facts SMARTboard Notebook

4. SOL Senteo (SMART Response) Assessment Test

5. SOL Senteo (SMART Response) Assessment Test

6. SOL Senteo (SMART Response) Assessment Test

7. SOL Civil War Instructional Notebook

8. North vs South Differences Instructional Notebook

9. Overview of Civil War including leaders and battles Instructional Notebook

10. Causes of the Civil War and Differences of North vs South Review Notebook

1. Civil War Jeopardy SOL PowerPoint

2. Civil War Instructional PowerPoint

3. Slavery Instructional PowerPoint

4. Differences Between North & South Instructional PowerPoint

5. Southern Secession Instructional PowerPoint

6. Civil War Leaders Instructional PowerPoint

7. Major Civil War Leaders and Events PowerPoint

8. Civil War SOL Review PowerPoint

1. Excellent Henrico Worksheets and Answer Keys

2. Superb Suffolk Teaching Activities and Resources

1. http://www.quia.com/pages/sol5.html SOL 5th grade webpage

3. Download Study Guides for 5th Grade History in PDF Study Guides for refrigerator

3. SOL HollyWood Squares & Jeopardy PowerPoints

4. US1.2-1.5 SOL JeopardyGame have to type in answers

5. US History SOL Test 1
US History SOL Test 2
US History SOL Test 3
US History SOL Test 4
US History SOL Test 5
US History SOL Test 6
US History SOL Test 7

6. Superb Suffolk SOL Review

7. SOL Hollywood Squares 5 History Review PowerPoint

8. SOL Hollywood Squares 5 History Review 2 PowerPoint

9. Are you Smarter than a 5th grader PowerPoint SOL Review

10. US History to 1877 SOL Review Foldables

11. US History SOL Tests Website

12. SMARTboard Senteo 2007 SOL Released Test 5th Grade (Zipped file-use Firefox)

13. Eleven SOL US History Senteo SMART Board Notebook files
US History SOL Senteo Assessment 1
US History SOL Senteo Assessment 2
US History SOL Senteo Assessment 3
US History SOL Senteo Assessment 4
US History SOL Senteo Assessment 5
US History SOL Senteo Assessment 6
US History SOL Senteo Assessment 7
US History SOL Senteo Assessment 8
US History SOL Senteo Assessment 9
US History SOL Senteo Assessment 10
US History SOL Senteo Assessment 11

14. Senteo SOL 2007 SOL Released Items Notebook

15. Social Studies Reading Comprehension Test Practice

16. Pass the Past Ipad app -SOL Released Test Practice with grade

17. 5th Grade SOL Review Amazing Race Promethean Flipchart with QR Codes

18. 5th Grade SOL Review Amazing Race SMART Notebook file with QR Codes

19. 5th Grade SOL History Game (requires Classroom Jeopardy)

1. Print PDF SOL Posters Virginia Studies 4th Grade Social Studies colorful posters created for each SOL)

2. SOL Cards & Games 5th grade SOL Review cards, games, and units)

3. Camping out with the 5th Grade SOLS

4. Interactive Notebooks Buy excellent interactive notetaking notebooks for SOL)

5. VDOE SOL History Resources VDOE Lesson plans & websites for each SOL, download in word or pdf)

6. Kidspiration Templates Templates organized by subject and grade

7. Download Jeopardy Powerpoint Game Template Fill in the questions and answers and have fun playing Jeopardy! 25 questions board

8. Download Millionaire Powerpoint Game Template Fill in the questions and answers and have fun playing Millionaire!

9. Brainpop Social Studies Movies Movie clips on Social Studies (Subscription)

10. Create SOL Foldables for US History Template and Digital Picture examples

11. SOL Study Guide with Pictures

12. Superb Suffolk Teaching Activities and Resources

13. US History PDFs of Interactive SOL Notebooks, tests, worksheets, study guides. This is an incredible resource for US History teachers.

14. SOL ABC Book Vocabulary in Word

15. Buy SOL Review Books Games for Learning

16. Free Pictures for Teachers

17. Free Clipart for Teachers

18. Excellent Henrico Worksheets and Answer Keys

19. Our America to 1865 (Hardcover) by Joy Masoff Excllent SOL History Textbook with easy to read sentences and great pictures

20. Pdf-notes ipad app allows you to annotate over any pdf. Convert any of your Word worksheets or review material to a pdf and then use the pdf-notes app on the ipads to write over the pdf using your finger just like a SMART Board on an ipad.