Elementary

__Elementary Frameworks__


 * Grade 1:**
 * __Individuals, Families, and Communities Now and Long Ago__**
 * 1.7 - //Folktales from around the World//
 * 1.8 - //Famous Americans of different ethnic groups//
 * 1.9 - //Religious, Community and Family traditions//

Using map exercises, incorporate world histories into discussion.
 * Grad****e 2:**

__**Traditions or customs from other countries that can be found in America today**__
 * 2.7 - //Tradtional food, customs, sports & games from places around the world//
 * 2.8 - //Tradations or customs from other countries found in America today//

__**American Revolution compared to a revolution in China**__ 3.5 - //Compare and contrast the relationship between differnt revoultions// __**Biography of American compared to a Chinese**__ 3.7 - //Read a biography of an Massachusetts and Chinese indivudal from the listed catagories and compare the similiatries and differences.//
 * Grade 3:**


 * Grade 4:**
 * __//Optional// Standards for Ancient China, C. 3000-200 BC/BCE__**
 * 4.1 On a map of Asia, locate China, the Huang He (Yellow) River and Chang Jiang (Yangtze) Rivers, and the Himalayan Mountains. (G)
 * 4.2 Describe the topography and climate of eastern Asia, including the importance of mountain ranges and deserts, and explain how geography influenced the growth of Chinese civilization. (G, E)
 * 4.3 Describe the ideological writing system used by the Chinese (characters, which are symbols for concepts/ideas) and how it differs from an alphabetic writing system. (H)
 * 4.4 Describe important technologies of China such as bronze casting, silk manufacture, and gunpowder. (H, E)
 * 4.5 Identify who Confucius was and describe his writings on good government, codes of proper conduct, and relationships between parent and child, friend and friend, husband and wife, and subject and ruler. (H, C)
 * 4.6 Describe how the First Emperor unified China by subduing warring factions, seizing land, centralizing government, imposing strict rules, and creating with the use of slave labor large state building projects for irrigation, transportation, and defense (e.g., the Great Wall). (H, C, E)
 * 4.7 After visiting a museum, listening to a museum educator in school, or conducting research in a library, describe an animal, person, building, or design depicted in an ancient Chinese work of art.


 * Grade 5:**
 * __Pre-Columbian Civilizations of the New World and European Exploration, Colonization, and Settlement to 1700__** 5.3