Fifth Grade Month: September Social Studies Unit: Three ...

Month: September Unit: Three Cultures Interact

Fifth Grade Social Studies Pacing Guide

Theme/Big Ideas

Objectives

Essential/Focus Questions

The

What was North

environment U1.1 American

America like

affects the Indian Life in the before 1600?

way people Americas

live

Describe the life of How did the

peoples living in environment

People adapt North America before affect life in

the

European

North America?

environment exploration.

to meet their

How did the

needs.

5 ? U1.1.1 Use maps introduction of

to locate peoples in new cultures

People

the desert Southwest, modify life and

construct the Pacific

the environment

institutions to Northwest, the

of North

guide their nomadic nations of America?

lives in

the Great Plains, and

groups.

the woodland peoples

east of the

Mississippi River

(Eastern Woodland).

(National Geography Standard 1, p. 144) 5 ? U1.1.2 Compare how American Indians in the desert Southwest and the Pacific Northwest adapted to or modified the environment.

Teaching Strategy

(our current

Assessment

Vocabulary/ Concepts

performance indicator)

Resources

Board Objectives

Chapter test Use

Describe how

Apply key

Compare

geography skills to Achievement Explain

learn 14 geographic Series

Describe

terms and 15

Desert

physical features that describe the U.S.

Southwest Pacific

Northwest

Use visual images and written

Great Plains Woodland

information to

Peoples

discover why

Mississippi

Native Americans

River

migrated to North AMerica and how they adapted to the environments they encountered.

Nomadic Peoples

American Indians

Adapt



History Alive! America's Past Text chapter 1,2,3

N.A. settled into regions on the North American continent, to understand what North America was like before 1600's.

Mark the maps to show the location of the native American regions to know where each cultural group could be found.

Discover how several Native American groups adapted to different geographic areas.

Modify

Environment

Explain how

Government

climate and

Family Structure

Property Ownershi p

Land Use

natural resources determined the types of homes, tools, clothing and food were used in each region to

understand the

different life-

styles of the

groups.

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(National Geography Standard 14, p. 171) 5 ? U1.1.3 Describe Eastern Woodland American Indian life with respect to governmental and family structures, trade, and views on property ownership and land use. (National Geography Standard 11, p. 164, C, E)

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Month: October Unit: Three Cultures Interact

Fifth Grade Social Studies Pacing Guide

Theme/Big Ideas

Objectives

Essential/Focus Questions

Teaching Strategy

(our current performance

Assessment

Vocabulary/ Concepts

Resources

Board Objectives

indicator)

Technology U1.2 European

What were some of

Chapter test Invention

Tell why the

impacts the Exploration

the problems the

way people Identify the causes and early explorers

live.

consequences of

faced?

European exploration

Technology and colonization.

What motivated

allows

them to achieve

people to 5 ? U1.2.1 Explain the their goal?

investigate technological (e.g.,

"Excavate" and

Technological

examine

Achievement Astrolabe

artifacts from Series

Sea



"sunken ship" and discuss what they reveal about expeditions.

Cause/Effect Quiz

Exploratio

n



Explorers

Europe



Goals

European Explorers came to the "New World" and how that affected the Native Americans and Europe, to understand how

the

invention of the

What were the

Obstacles

each group felt.

unknown. astrolabe and improved cultural

Read about

maps), and political characteristics of eight European

Ways of developments, (e.g., rise people from Africa, explorers and

thinking are of nation-states), that determined made sea exploration by culture. possible.

(National Geography

Europe, and North then illustrate America before facts about the their interactions on explorers' the North American expeditions.

Standard 1, p. 144, C) continent? How did

5 ? U1.2.2 Use case interactions in

Learn about slavery from the perspective

Motivation

Consequence

Explain how

Colonization

"new"

Americas Regions



technology and more accurate map-making

technology

helped make sea

History Alive Teacher Edition, textbook and exploration

workbook chapter 4,5,8

possible.

studies of individual North America

explorers and stories of affect the society,

life in Europe to

economics and

compare the goals, politics of Europe

obstacles, motivations, and Africa

and consequences for

European exploration

and colonization of the

of West

Africans and Graphic

gain

Organizer

appreciation for Fill-In

the dilemmas

they faced.

World Map Physical Features Map for North America

Choose 3 explorers and compare their reasons for leaving Europe, obstacles and goals to

Americas (e.g.,

understand the

economic, political,

impact of their

cultural, and religious).

exploration on

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(National Geography Standard 13, p. 169, C, E)

U1.3 African Life Before the 16th Century Describe the lives of peoples living in western Africa prior to the 16th century.

5 ? U1.3.1 Use maps to locate the major regions of Africa (northern Africa, western Africa, central Africa, eastern Africa, southern Africa). (National Geography Standard 1, p. 144)

5 ? U1.3.2 Describe the life and cultural development of people living in western Africa before the 16th century with respect to economic (the ways people made a living) and family structures, and the growth of states, towns, and trade. (National Geography Standard 10, p. 162)

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North America and Europe.

Read about life in West Africa before the 1600's to understand what life was like before European Slave Trade.

Identify the regions of Africa on the map to know where they are located.

Describe the daily life of the people living in West Africa before the 1600's.

Compare life in western Africa before the 1500's with life during European trade.

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