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Fifth Grade Social Studies
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Quarter #1
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Essential Skills Embedded throughout the SDOW Curriculum: Link
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Professional CommunicationCritical ThinkingEmotional IntelligenceTime Management/OrganizationLeadership
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TechnologyDigital CitizenshipLearning from FailureConflict ResolutionTeamwork
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In fifth grade, students engage in the study of events, documents, movements, and people emphasizing the time period between 1800 and 2000 in America with a focus on inquiry into the continuing development of the United States as a nation. This survey of U.S. History between 1800 and 2000 requires that students generate and research compelling questions.
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PLC Questions I: What is it the student is to know and do?
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Unit: Geography Skills Handbook
(In Growth of Our Nation-
5th gr)

Unit Duration: 3-5 Days		Critical Area of Focus: Geography
Students will use maps and globes to find information and solve problems. They will learn to locate and describe places using absolute and relative locations, and analyze the nation's physical features like mountains and rivers to understand their impact on human activities.

Common Language: region, landform, climate, globe, equator, latitude, longitude, prime meridian, absolute location, hemisphere, relative location, physical map, landform, relief, plain, elevation, elevation map, regions map, historical map, drought, current events, 		DOKIntroduce (I)
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Essential Question:What are the five themes of geography, the types and parts of a map, and how can you analyze a map to gather information?1st2nd3rd4th
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SDOW.SS.PS.4Create and use maps and other graphic representations in order to explain relationships and reveal patterns or trends.
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5.EG5.A.a Use geographic sources to acquire information, answer questions and solve problems.I
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5.EG5.B.b Locate and describe real places, using absolute and relative location.I
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5.EG5.C.a Describe and analyze physical characteristics of the nation.I
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Unit: Westward Expansion
(Chapter 8 in Building Our Country-5th gr)

Unit Duration: 20 Days		Critical Area of Focus:
Students will explore how technology affects society, why countries change their borders, and why people move. They’ll learn about maps, how economies work, and how people adapt to their surroundings. They’ll also compare cultures from different times in early American history. This will help them understand how our world has changed over time.
Common Language: profit, mass production, canal, vaquero, annex, Manifest Destiny, wagon train, prairie schooner, persecution, gold rush, entrepreneur, discrimination, Pony Express
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Essential Question:What are the cost and benefits of growth?1st2nd3rd4th
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SDOW.SS.PS.3Analyzing laws, policies, and processes to determine how they affect individuals and groups.
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5.EG5.E.a Analyze how changes in communication and transportation technologies affect people’s lives.
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5.GS2.C.a Explain how authoritative decisions are made, enforced and interpreted by the federal government across historical time periods and/or current events.
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SDOW.SS.PS.4Create and use maps and other graphic representations in order to explain relationships and reveal patterns or trends.
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5.EG5.A.a Construct and interpret historical and current maps.
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5.EG5.B.a Name and locate specific regions, states, capitals, river systems and mountain ranges in the United States based on historical or current topics.
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SDOW.SS.PS.5Analyze how the physical and human characteristics of regions are connected to changing identity and culture.
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5.EG5.C.b Identify and compare diverse human geographic characteristics of the nation.
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5.EG5.D.a Analyze how people are affected by, depend on, adapt to and change their physical environments in the past and in the present.
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5.EG5.G.a Use geography to interpret the past and predict future consequences as appropriate to topics or eras discussed.
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5.EG5.C.b Identify and compare diverse human geographic characteristics of the nation.
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5.EG5.C.a Identify and compare physical characteristics of specific regions within the nation.
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SDOW.SS.PS.6Using an inquiry lens, analyze the economic decisions to determine how it will affect society and individuals.
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5.E4.B.a Conduct a public cost-benefit analysis.
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5.E4.D.a Explain factors, past and present, that influence changes in state and regional economies.
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SDOW.SS.PS.7Analyze sources and artifacts to determine people’s perspectives and how they shaped society.
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5.RI6.A.a Compare cultural characteristics across historical time periods in U.S. history prior to c. 1800.
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5.RI6.C.a Research stories and songs that reflect the cultural history of the early United States prior to 1800.
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5.RI6.D.a Analyze the preservation of cultural life, celebrations, traditions, and commemorations over time.
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5.EG5.F.a Identify different regions in the United States and analyze how their characteristics affect people who live there.
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Unit: Civil War & Reconstruction
(Chapter 9 in Growth of Our Nation-5th gr)

Unit Duration: 18 Days		Critical Area of Focus:
Students will understand that social, political and economic differences can lead to conflict; and how forced change can be more difficult because people will fight to protect their beliefs and way of life. Students will learn that in wars, men, women, children, and the environment may all be affected. Conflicts can have unexpected results that can reshape a country.
Common Language: plantation, Union, states’ rights, compromise, Underground Railroad, abolitionist, secession, Confederacy, enlist, blockade, proclamation, emancipation, Juneteenth, siege, total war, assassinate, Reconstruction, amendment, impeachment, carpetbaggers, segregation, black codes, sharecropping
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Essential Question:What is worth fighting for?1st2nd3rd4th
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SDOW.SS.PS.1Using an inquiry lens, develop compelling questions to determine helpful resources and consider multiple points of view represented in the resources.
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5.TS7.A.a Identify, select, analyze, and evaluate resources to create a product of social science inquiry.
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5.TS7.D.a Conduct and present social studies ’ research to an audience using appropriate sources.
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5.TS7.E.a Generate compelling research questions about a social studies’ topic.

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5.TS7.E.b Create and apply a research process to investigate a compelling social studies’ question.
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5.TS7.E.c Evaluate and use appropriate resources for investigating a compelling social studies’ question.
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5.TS7.F.a Conduct and present research on a social studies’ question to an audience, using appropriate sources.
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SDOW.SS.PS.2Analyze the causes and consequences of a specific problem as well as the challenges and opportunities faced by those trying to address the problem.
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5.GS2.A.a Explain how the purpose and roles of government have been debated across historical time periods to current times.

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5.H3.E.a Explain the causes and consequences of major political developments and reform in U.S. history from c. 1800- 2000.
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5.H3.F.a Investigate the causes and consequences of westward expansion c. 1800-2000.
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5.RI6.B.a Evaluate constructive processes or methods for resolving conflicts.
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SDOW.SS.PS.3Analyzing laws, policies, and processes to determine how they affect individuals and groups.
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5.PC1.D.a Analyze ways by which citizens have effectively voiced opinions, monitored government, and brought about change both past and present.
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5.GS2.C.a Analyze how authoritative decisions are made, enforced and interpreted by the federal government across historical periods and current events.
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5.GS2.D.a Distinguish between powers and functions of local, state and national government in the past and present.
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SDOW.SS.PS.4Create and use maps and other graphic representations in order to explain relationships and reveal patterns or trends.
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5.H3.A.a Outline the territorial expansion of the United States.
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5.EG5.A.a Use geographic sources to acquire information, answer questions and solve problems.
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5.EG5.B.a Name and locate specific regions, states, capitals, river systems and mountain ranges in the United States based on historical or current topics.
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5.EG5.G.b Use a geographic lens to describe the impact of migration on the immigrants and the United States c. 1800- 2000.
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5.TS7.B.b Create and present products such as maps, graphs, timelines, charts and models, diagrams etc. to communicate information and understanding on social studies’ topics.
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SDOW.SS.PS.5Analyze how the physical and human characteristics of regions are connected to changing identity and culture.
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5.EG5.C.b Describe and analyze diverse human characteristics of the nation.
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5.EG5.G.a Use geography to interpret the past, explain the present and plan for the future as appropriate to topics or eras discussed.
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5.H3.B.a Examine cultural interactions and conflicts among Native Americans, European Americans and African Americans from c. 1800 – 2000.
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SDOW.SS.PS.6Using an inquiry lens, analyze the economic decisions to determine how it will affect society and individuals.
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5.H3.G.a Identify political, economic and social causes and consequences of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
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5.E4.D.a Explain factors, past and present, that influence changes in our nation’s economy
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SDOW.SS.PS.7Analyze sources and artifacts to determine people’s perspectives and how they shaped society.
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5.EG5.F.a Describe different regions in the United States and analyze how their characteristics affect people who live there.
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5.RI6.A.a Compare cultural characteristics across historical time periods in the U.S. post c.1800
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5.RI6.C.a Research stories and songs that reflect the cultural history of the United States c. 1800- 2000.
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5.RI6.D.a Analyze the preservation of cultural life, celebrations, traditions, and commemorations over time.
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5.RI6.E.a Examine the changing roles among Native Americans, Immigrants, African Americans, women and others from 1800-2000.
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