Grade 4 Social Studies Hawaii standards Standards

Content Standards

Anchor and Inquiry Standards

Developing Questions and Planning Inquiries

Gathering and Evaluating Sources

Creating Claims

Communicating Conclusions

Taking Informed Action

Construct compelling questions and explain the importance of the questions to self and others

Categorize questions according to the social studies disciplines

Create supporting questions to help answer compelling questions

Explain how supporting questions help answer compelling questions

Determine whether a source is primarily fact or opinion

Determine whether a source is primary or secondary

Gather relevant information from multiple sources that would be helpful in addressing compelling and supporting questions

Develop claims in response to compelling questions

Identify specific evidence that supports the claims

Construct arguments and explanations about classroom, school, or community issues and use relevant reasons to support the arguments

Respectfully ask and answer questions about the reasons others use in their arguments and explanations

Present arguments and explanations using a variety of print, oral, and digital technologies

Identify local, regional, or global problems or issues in various times and places

Explain different ways students could work individually or in collaboration with others (e.g., other students, teachers, community and/or global organizations) to address local, regional, or global problems or issues and predict possible results of their actions

Use deliberative and democratic procedures (e.g., listening, consensus-building, voting) to identify ways to take action about local and/or regional problems or issues

Show evidence of taking individual or group action on one or more problems or issues

Explain how voyaging skills and canoe design allowed Polynesians to travel from Asia throughout the Pacific to Hawaiʻi

Describe how early Hawaiians viewed the creation of the world and their environment through oral traditions

Summarize migration stories passed down through Hawaiian oral tradition

Identify major geographic characteristics of the Hawaiian archipelago, including its relative location to other major land masses

Describe how the original settlers modified their environment

Explain how geographic characteristics of the islands influenced locations of early settlements

Analyze how early Hawaiians used natural resources to meet their needs

Differentiate between native and non-native plants and animals used by early Hawaiians

Compare aspects of early Hawaiian culture and other Polynesian cultures

Explain how core values of the early Hawaiians are applicable to modern-day Hawaiʻi

Investigate the roles of gods in early Hawaiian society

Summarize how the concept of mana and one's genealogy determined rights and responsibilities

Explain how the kapu system regulated people's behavior and lives

Analyze how the kapu system maintained natural resources

Analyze how specialization of labor and the exchange of goods and services created a successful interdependent society in the ahupua'a

Use maps and illustrations to explain how Hawaiians used and modified land in the ahupua'a

Analyze major events that led to the unification of Hawaiʻi Island by Kamehameha I

Explain the roles and responsibilities of the aliʻi in governing Hawaiian society