The Native Americans in Virginia (4th Grade)

Virginia Standards of Learning Addressed:

• VS.1 The student will develop skills for historical and geographical analysis including the ability to:
  
  a) identify and interpret artifacts and primary and secondary source documents to understand events in history
  
  b) determine cause and effect relationships
  
  c) compare and contrast historical events
  
  d) draw conclusions and make generalizations
  
  e) make connections between past and present
  
  f) sequence events in Virginia history
  
  g) interpret ideas and events from different historical perspectives
  
  i) analyze and interpret maps to explain relationships among landforms, water features, climatic characteristics, and historical events
   

• VS.2 The student will demonstrate knowledge of the geography and early inhabitants of Virginia by:
  
  a) locating Virginia and its bordering states on maps of the United States
  
  b) locating and describing Virginia’s Coastal Plain (Tidewater), Piedmont, Blue Ridge Mountains, Valley and Ridge, and Appalachian Plateau
  
  c) locating and identifying water features important to the early history of Virginia (Atlantic Ocean, Chesapeake Bay, James River, York River, Potomac River, and Rappahannock River)
  
  d) locating three American Indian (First American) language groups (the Algonquian, the Siouan, and the Iroquoian) on a map of Virginia
  
  e) describing how American Indians (First Americans) adapted to the climate and their environment to secure food, clothing, and shelter
   

• VS.3 The student will demonstrate knowledge of the first permanent English settlement in America by:
  
  f) describing the hardships faced by settlers at Jamestown and the changes that took place to ensure survival
  
  g) describing the interactions between the English settlers and the Powhatan people, including the contributions of the Powhatans to the survival of the settlers
   

• VS.8 The student will demonstrate knowledge of the reconstruction of Virginia following the Civil War by:
  
  b) identifying the effects of segregation and “Jim Crow” on life in Virginia
   

• VS.9 The student will demonstrate knowledge of twentieth century Virginia by:
  
  b) identifying the social and political events in Virginia linked to desegregation and Massive Resistance and their relationship to national history