Newly updated pacing guide format featuring the BCS Common Instructional Framework and districtwide social studies resources:
Studies Weekly (Grades 4-5)
Newsela
Flocabulary
Aligned learning targets and instructional goals
The NC K-12 Social Studies Resource Hub is a repository for all Social Studies stakeholders with resources that assist with planning, instruction, and professional learning designed to support effective standard-based teaching and learning.
Newsela Social Studies Grade 4-5 helps build connections, promote inquiry, and get students thinking like historians, political scientists, or geographers with content that is relevant and accessible to students and aligned to standards.
Features: quizzes, writing prompts and an extensive library of authentic content, including: famous speeches, biographies, historical fiction, non fiction texts and recent current events
Studies Weekly provides Grade 4–5 students with standards-aligned social studies content through engaging print and digital resources that build historical thinking, civic understanding, and content knowledge.
Flocabulary is a research-based learning platform for grades K-12 that uses educational hip-hop music and storytelling to teach academic vocabulary, reading comprehension, and core curriculum subjects. By pairing rigorous content with catchy rhythms, it boosts student engagement and information retention.