Our State's History Timeline Storyboard

4th Grade Social StudiesState History3 pages

About this worksheet

Students act as documentary directors in this 4th grade state history storyboard. Two planning questions ask which books, websites, or documents they will use and what they think the most important change has been. The storyboard has six panels in time order, from Native American Peoples and the first European settlers to Road to Statehood, A Major Industry, A Modern Change, and Our State Today. Each panel needs a date or era, a caption, and a source. The 3-page sheet fits C3 Framework D2.His.1.3-5. There is no answer key, since every state's story differs.

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Our State's History Timeline Storyboard: State History - page 1
Our State's History Timeline Storyboard: State History - page 2
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Curriculum objectives covered

D2.His.1.3-5

“Create and use a chronological sequence of related events to compare developments that happened at the same time.”

The six panels run in order from the first peoples to statehood and today, and each carries a date or era.

D2.His.2.3-5

“Compare life in specific historical time periods to life today.”

Panel 6, Our State Today, asks what life is like now, which students set against the earlier panels on settlers and industry.

What's inside this worksheet

Pre-Production Planning

Question 1 asks for the sources students will use. Question 2 asks for the most important change the state has gone through and why.

Documentary Storyboard

Six panels with prompts such as "Who lived in this region first?" and "When and how did it join the Union?" Each has a Date/Era line, a caption space, and a Source line. The directions say stick figures are fine and captions should explain change.

How teachers use it

End-of-unit project

Assign it once students have notes from the unit. With facts in hand, the six panels take about two class periods including sketching.

Caption coaching

Model a Panel 3 caption with your state's statehood year. Show how "People are building houses" describes a picture, while a good caption says what changed.

Source check

The Source lines are where corners get cut. Accept a textbook page as a source, but ask for at least two different sources across the six panels.

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