🌎 5th grade Social Studies

Units

1. Unit 1

   🌽Nations Before Contact

   The many distinct Native nations of North America before contact and how they lived in different regions, their governments and trade, and how they shaped the early United States. Native nations are living communities today.

   Learning standard: 5.H.CP.10; 5.H.CE.8; 5.C.PI.1 · the distinct ways of knowing and living of Indigenous peoples of North America before contact, and their effects on the early United States

2. Unit 2

   ⛵Encounters & Colonization

   European exploration and colonization from 1492 to the 1700s, the Columbian Exchange, cooperation and conflict between Native nations and Spanish, French and English colonists, and the effects of conquest and assimilation.

   Learning standard: 5.H.CH.2; 5.G.HI.6; 5.G.HI.7; 5.G.MM.4; 5.H.CC.4; 5.H.CC.5 · European exploration and colonization, encounters with Indigenous nations, and the effects of conquest and assimilation

3. Unit 3

   🏘️The 13 Colonies

   The geography of New England, the Middle and the Southern colonies, why colonies were founded, mercantilism and specialization, and early self-government.

   Learning standard: 5.G.GR.3; 5.C.PI.1; 5.H.CE.6; 5.E.MI.5; 5.E.ST.10 · the geography of the thirteen colonies, colonial government and daily life, mercantilism and specialization

4. Unit 4

   ⛓️Slavery & Resistance

   The transatlantic slave trade and slavery in the colonies, the enslavement of Indigenous people, the many ways enslaved people resisted, gradual abolition in the North and people who fought for freedom. Told plainly and age-appropriately.

   Learning standard: 5.H.CH.1; 5.E.MI.6; 5.H.CP.9; 5.H.CC.3 · the role of slavery in the colonies, the slave trade, gradual abolition and people who resisted enslavement

5. Unit 5

   🥁The American Revolution

   Causes of the Revolution from 1763, the Declaration of Independence, key battles, the Treaty of Paris, and the different perspectives of Patriots, Loyalists, enslaved people, women and Native nations.

   Learning standard: 5.H.CE.7; 5.H.CE.6; 5.C.PI.3 · multiple perspectives on the causes and effects of independence from Britain, and the founders

6. Unit 6

   📜Constitution & Bill of Rights

   Why the Articles of Confederation were replaced, the Preamble, the three branches and checks and balances, the Bill of Rights (1791), and who was left out of rights in 1789.

   Learning standard: 5.C.DP.5; 5.C.CE.6; 5.C.PI.2; 5.C.IR.4; 5.E.MI.4 · the Preamble and Constitution, the Bill of Rights, who gained and lost rights, and why government collects taxes

7. Unit 7

   🗺️States & Capitals

   The capital cities of the 50 states, and major rivers, mountains and lakes of the United States.

   Learning standard: 5.G.GR.2 · locating states, capital cities and important geographic features on a US map

8. Unit 8

   🍋Earning & Saving

   Making a savings plan for a goal, estimating what a youth business can earn, income, expenses and profit, incentives, career choices and why people save differently.

   Learning standard: 5.E.ES.1; 5.E.ES.2; 5.E.IC.7; 5.E.IC.8; 5.E.IC.9 · savings plans, a youth business's income, career choices, incentives and differences in saving

9. Unit 9

   ⏳Colonies to Constitution

   Ordering events from Columbus to the Bill of Rights, including slavery and resistance, to see causes and effects over time.

   Learning standard: 5.H.CH.2; 5.H.CE.7 · tracing colonization and the events leading to independence in order

10. Unit 10

    🔍History Detective

    Primary and secondary sources, timelines and centuries, fact and opinion, claims and evidence, and judging a source by its maker, date and purpose, using early American history.

    Learning standard: 5.H.CE.7; 5.H.CH.2 · using sources and multiple perspectives to trace and explain early American history