Grade 5

Grade 5 · Social studies

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Social studies · 2018 framework

Lessons

  1. 01Check multiple sources and communicate a public issue with dataExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  2. 02Compare government authority, citizen participation and limits on rulersExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  3. 03Explain lasting effects of exploration and colonization in the AmericasExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  4. 04Compare distinct Native communities without erasing their identitiesExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  5. 05Explain why people, products and ideas move and shape cultural diversityExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  6. 06Use circle graphs to compare parts of a clearly defined wholeExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  7. 07Evaluate present and future consequences of individual and public choicesExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  8. 08Investigate productive resources, division of labor and interdependenceExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  9. 09Explain how learning and experience can expand earning opportunitiesExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  10. 10Choose geographic tools and evaluate what maps includeExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  11. 11Use coordinates and multiple criteria to compare regionsExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  12. 12Explain two-way relationships between environments and human activitiesExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  13. 13Order dates across BCE and CE using an honest timelineExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  14. 14Compare Maya and Mexica societies using identified evidenceExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  15. 15Compare Inka and Mississippian organization, food systems and evidenceExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers

Social studies · 2026 framework

Lessons

  1. 01Examine multiple perspectives on a historical event with primary and secondary sources, then communicate a claimExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  2. 02Make an informed, reasoned civic decision by evaluating, using and discussing a line graph of change over timeExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  3. 03Use continents and regions to organize the Western Hemisphere, then compare the languages, cuisines, belief systems and arts that nations share and that make each uniqueExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  4. 04Trace how European exploration and colonization of Central and South America from the 1400s to the 1700s transformed the hemisphere and left impacts we can observe todayExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  5. 05Answer the fundamental questions of economics and explain how growing cities and civilizations fostered markets and the move from barter to moneyExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  6. 06Compare the governments, social structures, religions, technologies and farming of the Maya, Inca, Aztec and Mississippian cultures, and explain what made each one uniqueExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers