Grade 8 Social Studes

Unit 1 | Unit 2 | Unit 3 | Unit 4 | Unit 5 | Unit 6 | Unit 7 | Unit 8 | Unit 9 | Unit 10 l Print Version
 

 Unit 1: Louisiana’s Physical and Cultural Geography
Activity 1 Telling Time
Activity 2:  Identifying Louisiana Geographic Features
Activity 3:  Off the Charts
Activity 4: Population Trends
Activity 5:  Louisiana Location
Activity 6:  Laws and Public Policy
Activity 7: Physical and Human Phenomena of Louisiana Activity 8: Rivers and Roads
Activity 9:  Physical Change
Activity 10:  Vanishing Habitat
Activity 11:  Cultural Diffusion, Diversity, and Louisiana Heritage
Activity 12: Roots

Unit 2: Economics in Louisiana
Activity 1: Local, National, and Global Interdependency
Activity 2: Ancient Economics
Activity 3:  Natural Resources
Activity 4:  Scarcity of Resources:  Personal and Societal Levels
Activity 5:  Making Effective Economic Decisions
Activity 6: Pick a Car, Any Car
Activity 7: Pay Me Now or Pay Me Later
Activity 8:  Careers, Training, and specialization in Louisiana
Activity 9: Louisiana Specialty
Activity 10: Four Corners
Activity 11:  Analyzing and Creating Products and Services
Activity 12:  Economic Systems and Questions
Activity 13:  Louisiana Historical and Economic Growth Factors
Activity 14, Part One: To Tax or Not to Tax
Activity 14, Part Two
Activity 15:  Influences of Inflation, Unemployment, and Underemployment
Activity 16:  Geography and Economy

Unit 3: Louisiana’s Government

Activity 1: Comparing State and Federal Preambles

Activity 2:  Louisiana and U.S. Constitutions

Activity 3:  Forms of Local Government

Activity 4:  State and Local Representatives

Activity 5:  Current Representatives

Activity 7:  Taxes:  What They Are and Why We Need Them

Activity 8:  Political and Social Conflicts

Activity 9:  The Political Process

Activity 10:  U.S. Census and the Political Process

Activity 11:  Electoral College

Activity 12:  Individual Rights in the Louisiana Constitution

Activity 13: Citizen Influence on Government

Activity 15:  The Kingfish

 

Unit 4: Early Peoples of Louisiana and a Meeting of Different Worlds

Activity 1:  Louisiana’s Native Americans

Activity 2:  Timeline

Activity 3:  Settlement of Louisiana

Activity 4:  Louisiana’s Environment

Activity 5:  Political, Social, or Economic Contexts

Activity 6:  Influential Figures

Activity 7:  Extra, Extra, Read All About It!

Activity 8:  Memoir Writing

 

Unit 5: The Acadian Odyssey

Activity 1: Reflection in Time

Activity 2:  The Acadian Odyssey

Activity 3: In the Eye of the Storm - Conflict and Similarities between Cultures

Activity 4: The Song of the Acadians

Activity 5: The Americanization of the Acadians

Activity 6: The Acadian Legacy

Unit 6: Louisiana Becomes a State

Activity 1:  Timeline

Activity 2:  The Louisiana Purchase

Activity 3: The Americanization of Louisiana

Activity 4:  Panel Discussion

Activity 5:  Battle of New Orleans Geography

Activity 6:  The Battle of New Orleans

Activity 7:  Plantation Economy

Activity 8: Reflection on African American History

Activity 9: Claim to Fame: Role-playing Historical Figures in Louisiana History

Activity 10:  Steamboats

 

Unit 7: Civil War and Reconstruction

Activity 1:  Louisiana Civil War Timeline of Causes and Effects

Activity 2:  Geographical Factors in the Civil War

Activity 3:  Louisiana Trade

Activity 4:  Civil War Trading Cards

Activity 5:  New Orleans during Union Occupation

Activity 6:  Reconstruction Plans:  Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan, Johnson's Plan, and Military Reconstruction

Activity 7:  Early Congressional Legislation and the Reconstruction Acts

Activity 8:  Radical Republican Governments in the South

Activity 9:  Reconstruction and Louisiana's African American Population

Activity 10:  Reconstruction's End and the Election of 1876

 

Unit 8: Transitions to the Twentieth Century

Activity 1: The Bourbons and the Louisiana Lottery

Activity 2: The struggle for Civil Rights

Activity 3:  The Populists and the Farmers' Union

Activity 4:  Labor Conflict (GLEs:  51, 52, 65)

Activity 5:  Agriculture, Industrial Progress, and Healthcare Progress

Activity 6:  The Progressive Movement and Louisiana’s Governors

Activity 7:  New Conveniences

Activity 8:  Changes in Louisiana

Activity 9:  The Rise of Huey Long

Activity 10:  The Effects of the Great Flood of 1927

Activity 11:  Altering Louisiana’s Environment: Cause and Effect

Activity 12:  The Great Depression and the New Deal

 

Unit 9: Eras of World War II and Civil Rights

Activity 1:  Louisiana During World War II

Activity 2:  Louisiana’s Governors (Long or Anti-Long)

Activity 3:  Postwar Economy

Activity 4:  Cultural Change

Activity 5:  Civil Rights in Louisiana

Activity 6:  Louisiana’s Constitution

Activity 7:  The Superdome and Economic Development

Activity 8:  Suburban Growth

 

Unit 10: Louisiana Ends the Twentieth Century and Enters the Twenty-First

Activity 1:  Oil Boom to Bust

Activity 2:  Economic Development

Activity 3:  Environmental Issues and Economic Development

Activity 4:  Political Trends

Activity 5:  Present Louisiana Government and Economy

Activity 6:  Louisiana Preservation and Prospects
Activity 7: Cultural Diffusion: Louisiana, The Melting Pot 

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