5th Grade

Unit 4: How the world works

January 5th - February 18th

Explain how other people have impacted the world around them in the same way that they have a desire to impact the world. (Connect to Making Conclusions and Exhibition ideas.)

Voice: Exchange ideas with classmates and share their findings with their community.
Choice: Choose an idea of how people have shaped the world; choose a format to present their research information.
Ownership: To analyze how they have been personally impacted by this change in the world.

Choose: Being more organized in the classroom and station rotation.
Act: Acknowledging the responsibility to stick to their goal.
Reflect: Holding each other accountable to reflect on their subject goals and their plans to accomplish them.

Form: What is it like? The understanding that everything has a form with recognizable features that can be observed, identified, described and categorized.
Causation: Why is it like this? The understanding that things do not just happen, that there are causal relationships at work, and that actions have consequences.
Change: How is it changing? The understanding that change is the process of movement from one state to another. It is universal and inevitable.

Reading: Biography, poetry, informational texts (central idea, text features, text structure), fiction (plot, story elements, characters and their conflicts.
Math: data representation and geometry and measurement
Science: Earth rotation, sun & ocean in water cycle, Sun, Earth and Moon characteristics.
Social Studies: Westward expansion, Industrial revolution, Territorial expansion (Louisiana Purchase, Luis and Clark expedition, Manifest Destiny)

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