🌎 5th grade Social Studies

Units

1. Unit 1

   🏘️The Thirteen Colonies

   Why the colonies were founded, how land and climate shaped the three regions, the people who founded them, the religious life of the colonies and the First Great Awakening, and early self-government such as the Mayflower Compact and the House of Burgesses.

   TEKS student expectation: 5.1(A); 5.1(B); 5.13(B) · why and where the colonies were founded, their founders, and early representative government

2. Unit 2

   ⚓Colonial Trade & Work

   Resources, specialization and trade in the colonies, mercantilism, and the Atlantic slave trade and its impact on African peoples, told plainly and age-appropriately.

   TEKS student expectation: 5.9(A); 5.9(B); 5.10(A) · the economic patterns and major industries of the colonies and the start of free enterprise

3. Unit 3

   📜Road to Revolution

   British taxes, colonial protests such as boycotts and the Boston Tea Party, the Continental Congresses, and why Loyalists and Patriots saw things differently.

   TEKS student expectation: 5.2(A); 5.2(B) · taxation after the French and Indian War, colonists' responses and the Sons of Liberty

4. Unit 4

   🥁The American Revolution

   The Declaration of Independence and its ideals, key battles from Lexington to Yorktown, help from France and others, and the people of many backgrounds who shaped the war.

   TEKS student expectation: 5.2(B); 5.2(C); 5.14(A) · the Declaration of Independence, the people and battles of the Revolution, and its results

5. Unit 5

   🏛️Building a Government

   Why the Articles of Confederation were replaced, the compromises of 1787, the three branches, checks and balances, federalism and the Bill of Rights (1791).

   TEKS student expectation: 5.3; 5.14(B); 5.14(C); 5.15(A) · the framers of the Constitution, its purposes, the Bill of Rights and the three branches

6. Unit 6

   🗺️States & Capitals

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

   TEKS student expectation: 5.6(C) · locating the 50 states and naming their capitals

7. Unit 7

   🔍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.

   TEKS student expectation: 5.23(A); 5.23(B) · using primary and secondary sources and asking whether they are credible

8. Unit 8

   🚂A Growing Nation

   The causes and effects of the War of 1812, the Louisiana Purchase and Lewis and Clark, Manifest Destiny, the Industrial Revolution and sectional conflict, and the immigrants and settlers who built the railroads and farmed the West. American Indian nations are described as living communities.

   TEKS student expectation: 5.4(A); 5.4(B); 5.4(C); 5.4(F); 5.22(B) · the War of 1812, the Industrial Revolution, territorial expansion, and the settlers and immigrants who built the West

9. Unit 9

   ⚖️Civil War & Reconstruction

   How the expansion of slavery caused sectionalism and the Civil War, the war's main events, Juneteenth in Galveston, Reconstruction, and the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments. Told factually.

   TEKS student expectation: 5.4(D); 5.4(E); 5.11(B) · the central role of slavery in causing the Civil War, its effects, Reconstruction and the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments

10. Unit 10

    🚀America in the 20th & 21st Centuries

    Industrialization and urbanization, the world wars, the Great Depression, the civil rights movement, September 11 and the 2008 election, and the people and inventors the Texas standards name, from Susan B. Anthony and the Tuskegee Airmen to the Wright brothers and Neil Armstrong.

    TEKS student expectation: 5.5(A); 5.5(B); 5.5(C); 5.22(A); 5.22(C) · events and people of the 20th and 21st centuries, and notable scientists and inventors

11. Unit 11

    🗽Symbols, Rights & Citizens

    Patriotic and political symbols (Uncle Sam, the donkey and elephant), Labor Day, the history of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” the meaning of the Pledge, the White House, the Statue of Liberty and Mount Rushmore, federalism and checks and balances, the Bill of Rights, and how citizens take part.

    TEKS student expectation: 5.15(B); 5.15(C); 5.16(A); 5.16(B); 5.16(C); 5.16(D); 5.17(A); 5.17(B); 5.18(A); 5.18(B); 5.19 · patriotic symbols, landmarks, federalism and checks and balances, rights in the Bill of Rights, and civic participation

12. Unit 12

    🏭Free Enterprise & Work

    How the free enterprise system works and its benefits, supply and demand, how people in different regions earn a living, immigration and migration, and mass production, specialization and division of labor.

    TEKS student expectation: 5.10(A); 5.10(B); 5.10(C); 5.11(A); 5.12(A); 5.12(B); 5.12(C); 5.12(D) · the free enterprise system, supply and demand, regional economies, migration and mass production

13. Unit 13

    🗺️Mapping the United States

    Regions of the United States, landforms and waterways such as the Appalachian Mountains, Great Lakes, Mississippi River, Great Plains and Rocky Mountains, large cities, and why people settle where they do.

    TEKS student expectation: 5.6(A); 5.6(B); 5.6(D); 5.7(A); 5.7(B); 5.7(C) · regions and physical features of the United States, and patterns of settlement