Social Studies Curriculum

Topics of Study in 5th Grade Social Studies:

August- Geography

September- Native Americans

October- European Explorers/Exploring the New World

November- Early English Settlements and Comparing the Colonies

December- Slavery and Colonial Williamsburg

January- Growing Tensions Between the Colonies and Britain

February- The Declaration of Independence and The Revolutionary War

March- The Constitution and The Bill of Rights

April- Manifest Destiny and Settling the West

May- The causes of the Civil War and the major battles of the Civil War