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WOW HomeLanguage ArtsMathScience Social Studies K Social Studies 1st Grade Social Studies 2nd Grade Social Studies 3rd Grade Social Studies 4th Grade Social StudiesStandardInternetSMARTboard 5th Grade Social Studies | Unit 1 Unit One focus: Connecting Themes in Fourth Standards: The focus of this important first unit is on the concepts and enduring understandings rather than specific standards. In this unit students will be introduced to the unit connecting themes of: • Beliefs and Ideals • Location These themes will provide the scaffolding needed for the study of Social Studies for the rest of the school year. Unit 2 Unit Two focus: The Discovery of North America Unit Four focus: Forming a New Nation Standards: H1a,b; H2a,b; G1a; G2a,b; E1a Map Skills: 6,8 Info Skills: 5,7,13 Location • American Indian settlements (H1a, G2a) Lewis and Clark Interactive Trail • Use of environment (H1b) Movement/Migration • Reasons, obstacles, accomplishments of explorers (H2a) Unit 3 Unit Three focus: The Colonization of North America Standards: H3a,b; G2c; E1b,c,d Map Skills: 6,8,11,12 Info Skills: 13 Location • Geography of each colony (G2c) Individuals, Groups, Institutions • Colonial life (H3b) Unit 4 Unit 4 focus: Forming on a New Nation Standards: H4a,b,c,d; G2d; CG1a Map Skills: 6,7,8,10,11,12 Info Skills: 5,6,7,17 Beliefs and Ideals • Explain the Declaration of Independence (H4b) Conflict and Change • Events that shaped the revolutionary movement (H4a) Individuals, Groups, Institutions • Key individuals in the Revolution (H4d) Unit 5 Unit Five focus: Challenges of a New Nation Standards: H5a,b,d,e; H7a,b; CG1b; CG5; E1e Map Skills: 7,11 Beliefs and Ideals • “We the people” (CG1b) Conflict and Change • Weaknesses of Articles of Confederation (H5a) Individuals, Groups, Institutions • Major leaders of the Constitutional Convention (H5b) Unit 6 Unit Six focus: Expansion of a New Nation Standards: H6a,b; G1b; G2e; E1f Map Skills: 6,7,8,10,11,12 Info Skills: 5,7,11 Individuals, Groups, Institutions • Biographies of Harriet Tubman, Elizabeth Cady Staton (H7a) Movement/Migration • Territorial expansion (H6a) Technological Innovation • Impact of steamboat, locomotive, telegraph (H6b) Unit 7 Unit Seven focus: Our American Government Standards: H5c; CG1c; CG2; CG3a,b,c,d,e; CG4a,b Map Skills: Distribution of Power • 3 branches of gov’t (H5c) Rule of Law • Freedom of expression (CG2) Unit 8 Unit Eight focus: Being a Responsible Spender by Learning from Our Past Standards: E1a,b,c,d,e,f; E2 Map Skills: Info Skills: 5,7,11 In this unit, students will use what they have learned from this year’s unit focuses about opportunity costs, price incentives, specialization, voluntary exchange, trade, and productivity to create a “business community” and understand personal finance. Unit Connecting Themes: Production, Distribution, Consumption Scarcity • Identify elements of a personal budget (E2) This unit will reflect some type of activity in which students create their own economic system. |
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