Social Studies- First 9 weeks
Social Studies- First 9 weeks
The first two units of the year are Geography and Map Skills Review and Native Americans of North America.
With Map Skills Review, students will be reviewing physical map features, the compass rose, Latitude & Longitude, GPS, the five regions, and take a map quiz.
In the Native American of North America Unit, students will learn how to contrast Indigenous creation stories and examine scientific theories of human settlement in the Americas, define and analyze culture, explain how geography, natural resources, and climate influence culture, label 8 Native American cultural regions on a map, discover cultures of Native people of the American Northeast and the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), the Great Plains Indigenous peoples and the Lakota (Sioux), Southwest Indigenous peoples and the Navajo, Pacific Northwest, the Tlingit, Plateau Indigenous people, and the Yakama, the Great Basin Indigenous peoples and the Shoshone, California Indigenous peoples and the Yurok, Southwest Indigenous peoples, and the Cherokee. We will also explore how European colonization affected Indigenous Americans in general and how it affected people in four specific cultural regions.
Geography and Map Skills:
5.G.1 Demonstrate that lines of latitude and longitude are measured in degrees of a circle, that places can be precisely located where these lines intersect, and that location can be stated in terms of degrees north or south of the equator and east or west of the Prime Meridian. (Essential)
5.G.2 Use maps and globes to locate states, capitals, major cities, major rivers, the Great Lakes, and mountain ranges in the United States. (Essential)
5.G.3 Locate the continental divide and the major drainage basins/watersheds in the United States, noting the watersheds that Indiana lies within.
5.G.4 Use maps to describe the characteristics of climate regions of the United States.
5.G.5 Identify major sources of accessible fresh water and describe the impact of access on the local and regional communities.
5.G.6 Identify the major manufacturing and agricultural regions in colonial America and summarize the ways that agriculture and manufacturing changed between 1600 and 1800. (Essential)
5.G. 7 Describe the ways Native Americans, Africans, immigrant groups, and colonists adapted to variations in the physical environment.
5.G.8 Describe and analyze how specific physical features influenced historical events. (Essential)
Native Americans of North America:
5.H.1 Identify and describe early cultures and settlements that existed in North America prior to contact with Europeans. (Essential)
5.H.3 Compare and contrast historic Indian groups of the West, Southwest, Northwest, Arctic and sub-Arctic, Great Plains, and Eastern Woodlands regions at the beginning of European exploration in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
5.G. 7 Describe the ways Native Americans, Africans, immigrant groups, and colonists adapted to variations in the physical environment.
5.H.6 Identify and explain instances of both cooperation and conflict that existed between Native Americans and colonists.
5. H. 8 Identify the early founders of colonial settlements and describe early colonial resistance to British rule.
5.E.1 Describe the economic activities within and among Native American cultures prior to contact with Europeans. Examine the economic incentives that helped motivate European exploration and colonization. (Essential)
5.E.2 Define types of trade barriers.
Geography and Map Skills Review :
I can locate and distinguish between lines of Latitude and Longitude.
I can use a compass rose.
I can identify and describe the cultural and physical regions of the United States.
I can use maps and globes to locate states, capitals, major cities, major rivers, the Great Lakes, and mountain ranges in the United States.
I can locate the continental divide and the major drainage basins in the United States.
I can identify major sources of accessible fresh water and describe the impact of access o the local and regional communities.
Native Americans of North America:
I can compare and contrast creation stories.
I can examine scientific theories of human settlement in the Americas.
I can define "culture" and analyze my own identity by creating an identity chart.
I can explain how geography, natural resources, and climate influence culture.
I can label 8 Native American cultural regions on a map.
I can create Cultural Atlas pages about the Native people of the American Northeast and the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois).
I can create Cultural Atlas pages about the Great Plains Indigenous peoples and the Lakota (Sioux).
I can create Cultural Atlas pages about the Southwest Indigenous peoples and the Navajo.
I can create Cultural Atlas pages about the Native people of the Pacific Northwest and the Tlingit.
I can plan a group project about a Native American group.
I can listen respectfully to student presentations.
I can create Cultural Atlas pages about the Plateau Indigenous peoples and the Yakama.
I can create Cultural Atlas pages about the Great Basin Indigenous peoples and the Shoshone.
I can create Cultural Atlas pages about the California Indigenous peoples of the Yurok.
I can create Cultural Atlas pages about the Southeast Indigenous peoples and the Cherokee.
I can explain how European colonization affected Indigenous Americans in general.
I can explain how European colonization affected Indigenous people from four specific cultural regions.
I can write thoughtful questions to ask a representative of a local tribe about their culture.
I can illustrate three main ideas from the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
I can research and teach about a modern-day Indigenous American leader.