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General Course Information and Notes
General Notes
Fifth Grade: United States History - The fifth grade Social Studies curriculum consists of the following content area strands: American History, Geography, Economics, and Civics. Fifth grade students will study the development of our nation with emphasis on the people, places and events up to approximately 1850. Students will be exposed to the historical, geographic, political, economic, and sociological events which influenced the initial inhabitation, exploration, colonization, and early national periods of American History. So that students can see clearly the relationship between cause and effect in history, students should also have the opportunity to understand how individuals and events of this period influenced later events in the development of our nation.Mathematics Benchmark Guidance - Social Studies instruction should include opportunities for students to interpret and create representations of historical events and concepts using mathematical tables, charts, and graphs.
Instructional Practices
Teaching from well-written, grade-level instructional materials enhances students' content area knowledge and also strengthens their ability to comprehend longer, complex reading passages on any topic for any reason. Using the following instructional practices also helps student learning:
1. Reading assignments from longer text passages as well as shorter ones when text is extremely complex.
2. Making close reading and rereading of texts central to lessons.
3. Asking high-level, text-specific questions and requiring high-level, complex tasks and assignments.
4. Requiring students to support answers with evidence from the text.
5. Providing extensive text-based research and writing opportunities (claims and evidence).
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Student Resources
Original Student Tutorials
Learn more about three U.S. states and their capital cities, as well as important people and places involved in the American Revolution by visiting Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts in this interactive tutorial.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Learn more about three states, their capital cities, and their sports history by visiting Indiana, Ohio, and Maryland in this interactive tutorial.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Explore the Mississippi River and learn more about this physical feature in this interactive research page!
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Learn more about three states and their capital cities by visiting Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine in this interactive tutorial.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Learn about three states and their capitals, and their local food, by taking a trip to Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York in this interactive tutorial.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Learn about three states and their capitals by taking a trip to West Virginia, Virginia, and Delaware in this interactive tutorial.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Identify the locations and state capitals of five U.S. states: California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, and Hawaii. With this interactive tutorial, you'll also learn why we have state capitals: because of federalism.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Learn more about three U.S. states and their capitals, Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin, in this interactive student tutorial. Practice your math skills by solving multi-step real world problems involving money and decimals.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Learn to identify the locations and state capitals of five U.S. states: Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota. In this interactive tutorial, you'll also learn why we have state capitals: because of federalism.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Learn about three states and their capitals by taking a trip to Kentucky, North Carolina, and South Carolina in this interactive tutorial. Practice your math skills by solving multi-step real world problems involving money and decimals.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Learn about five states and their capitals by taking a trip to state parks in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee in this interavtive tutorial.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Learn to identify the locations and state capitals of five U.S. states: Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana with this interactive tutorial. You'll also learn why we have state capitals: because of federalism.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Learn to identify the locations and state capitals of five U.S. states: Nevada, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona. In this interactive tutorial, you'll also learn why we have state capitals: because of federalism.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Learn about the history and background of the U.S. Constitution and how the Constitution and Bill of Rights safeguards our rights and liberties in this interactive tutorial.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Learn about important historical documents that influenced political concepts in the United States and that the Declaration of Independence affirms all citizens have certain unalienable rights with this interactive tutorial.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Read about the sinking of the Titanic and learn to identify key ideas in multiple texts, review similarities and differences between those key ideas, and identify the difference between important and interesting key ideas. This interactive tutorial will help you integrate information from several texts on the same topic.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Learn how to draw information from multiple print sources to locate an answer to any research question quickly.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Learn how to analyze multiple accounts of the same topic or event and note important similarities and differences in the points of view they represent with this interactive tutorial.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Learn to identify components within a galaxy such as gas, dust, stars and objects that orbit stars with this interactive tutorial.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Learn to quote accurately from a text when answering explicit questions and when supporting inferences from the text as you complete this interactive tutorial.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Student Center Activity
Students can practice answering reading comprehension questions with a text about online learning. With an account, students can save their work and send it to their teacher when complete.
Type: Student Center Activity
Video/Audio/Animation
View a 10-part video on the Battle of Yorktown, the culminating battle of the Revolutionary War. With French aid, George Washington led American troops to a victory that ensured American independence.
In addition to the video, you will find primary source documents and a graphic organizer to help you analyze the Battle of Yorktown in greater detail.
Type: Video/Audio/Animation
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