Grade 5 Social Studies
10 units matched to the Prince Edward Island Curriculum.
Learning focus
- Citizenship, Power, and Governance. Students will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship and the origins, functions, and sources of power, authority, and governance.
- Culture and Diversity. Students will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of culture, diversity, and world view, recognizing the similarities and differences reflected in various personal, cultural, racial, and ethnic perspectives.
- Individuals, Societies, and Economic Decisions. Students will be expected to demonstrate the ability to make responsible economic decisions as individuals and as members of society.
- Interdependence. Students will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of the interdependent relationship among individuals, societies, and the environment — locally, nationally, and globally — and the implications for a sustainable future.
- People, Place, and Environment. Students will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of the interactions among people, places, and the environment.
- Time, Continuity, and Change. Students will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of the past and how it affects the present and the future.
Units
Unit 1
Maps, Sources and Fair Thinking
Reading and building maps with latitude and longitude, telling primary from secondary sources and fact from opinion, comparing points of view, and working fairly with others.
Curriculum outcome: 5.1.1 · using maps, timelines and sources to learn about the past
Unit 2
Investigate It
Sorting primary and secondary sources, checking a source, asking good inquiry questions and reading maps.
Curriculum outcome: 5.1.1 · primary and secondary sources, perspectives and maps for investigating the past
Unit 3
Where and When?
Where early civilizations grew up (the Nile, Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, China, the Mediterranean, the Americas) and how to read BCE and CE dates. The peoples of the Americas are shown as living peoples.
Curriculum outcome: 5.1.1; 5.2.1 · finding ancient civilizations in place and time
Unit 4
Land and Water
How the Nile, the Tigris and Euphrates, the Andes, the Greek coast and the lakes of Mexico shaped farming, homes, tools and trade, and how droughts and floods created challenges.
Curriculum outcome: 5.2.1 · how land and water shaped life in ancient societies
Unit 5
Rise and Fall
Food surplus, rivers, trade and strong leaders helped civilizations rise. Drought, invasion, fighting inside and worn-out farmland could lead to decline, usually through several causes together.
Curriculum outcome: 5.2.1 · why ancient civilizations grew and why they changed
Unit 6
Life in the Middle Ages
Children explain why social structure mattered in a society of the Middle Ages.
Curriculum outcome: 5.3.1 · the importance of social structure in a society from the Middle Ages
Unit 7
First Nations and Inuit Societies
Children learn about the diverse societies of First Nations and Inuit in what later became Canada.
Curriculum outcome: 5.4.1 · the diverse societies of First Nations and Inuit in what later became Canada
Unit 8
Deciding Together
Children examine how decisions were made in First Nations and Inuit societies in what later became Atlantic Canada.
Curriculum outcome: 5.4.2 · decision-making practices in First Nations and Inuit societies in what later became Atlantic Canada
Unit 9
Meeting in Atlantic Canada
Children examine interactions between the English, the French, and First Nations and Inuit in what later became Atlantic Canada.
Curriculum outcome: 5.5.1 · interactions among the English, French, First Nations and Inuit in what later became Atlantic Canada
Unit 10
Gifts from the Past
What ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, Greece, Rome, the Maya and the Inca left behind, such as writing, a 60-minute hour, paper, democracy, roads and languages.
Curriculum outcome: 5.6.1 · ideas and inventions from the past that we still use
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