School Improvement in Maryland

State Curriculum: Social Studies Grade 5

Date: 6/20/2006
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Standard 1.0 Political Science

Topic

A.

Indicator

  • 1. Examine the early foundations, functions, and purposes of government

Objectives

  1. Describe how the European policies affected the interactions of explorers and colonists with Native Americans, such as the French and Indian War
  1. Explain and clarify how Europe's philosophies and policies affected the political structure of the early American Colonies
  1. Identify and summarize how democratic principles, such as rule of law, limited government, consent of the governed, popular sovereignty, representative democracy, and the limitation of power influenced our founding documents
  1. Trace the development of early democratic ideas and practices that emerged during the early colonial period, including the significance of representative assemblies and town meetings

Indicator

  • 2. Analyze the historic events, documents, and practices that are the foundations of our political systems

Objectives

  1. Explain and report on the early examples of self-government, such as the Mayflower Compact and the House of Burgesses
  1. Analyze the successes and failures in meeting the challenges of governing under Articles of Confederation
  1. Explain the significance of principles in the development of the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, Preamble, U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights
  1. Describe the three branches of government and their individual powers and responsibilities, such as separation of powers and checks and balances

Indicator

  • 3. Analyze the roles of colonial government regarding public policy and issues

Objectives

  1. Identify the effect that regional interests and perspectives had on shaping government policy, and compare such as middling class v. gentry, plantation owners v. proprietors
  1. Analyze how geographic information influenced the formation of policy, such as the Proclamation of 1763

Topic

B.

Indicator

  • 1. Analyze how individuals' roles and perspectives shape the American political system

Objectives

  1. Examine the contributions of people associated with the drafting of the Declaration of Independence and the framing of the Constitution, such as James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, John Jay, and George Washington
  1. Examine how the federalists and anti-federalist perspectives influenced government

Indicator

  • 2. Analyze the importance of civic participation as a citizen of the United States

Objectives

  1. Analyze the usefulness of various sources of information used to make political decisions
  1. Compare ways people can participate in the political process including voting, petitioning elected officials, and volunteering

Topic

C.

Indicator

  • 1. Describe individual rights and responsibilities in the United States

Objectives

  1. Describe responsibilities associated with certain basic rights of citizens, such as freedom of speech, religion, and press, and explain why these responsibilities are important
  1. Describe the power and responsibility of the Supreme Court including the power of judicial review

Indicator

  • 2. Evaluate how the United States government protects the rights of individuals and groups

Objectives

  1. Explain the balance between providing for the common good and protecting individual rights
  1. Analyze how government needs to provide more protection and order during times of crisis, such as the natural disasters and threats to national security

Indicator

Objectives

  1. Describe the due process protections in the Bill of Rights

Standard 2.0 Peoples of the Nation and World

Topic

A.

Indicator

  • 1. Describe the various cultures of colonial societies and how the environment influenced them

Objectives

  1. Describe how environment and location influenced the cultures and lifestyle
  1. Define the social, political, and religious components of the early colonies
  1. Analyze the religious beliefs of early settlers, the motives for migration and the difficulties they encountered in early settlements

Topic

B.

Indicator

  • 1. Analyze how native societies were influenced by the diverse cultures of the explorers and settlers

Objectives

  1. Compare perspectives of Native American, Africans, and the European explorers
  1. Describe how cultures changed as a result of Native American, African, and European interaction

Indicator

  • 2. Analyze how increased diversity in the colonies resulted from immigration, settlement patterns and economic development

Objectives

  1. Analyze how the influx of immigrants led to economic growth and cultural diversity
  1. Provide examples of how the interactions of various groups resulted in the borrowing and sharing of traditions and technology

Topic

C.

Indicator

  • 1. Analyze factors that affected relationships in the colonial period

Objectives

  1. Analyze how conflict affected relationships among individuals and groups, such as early settlers and Native Americans, free and enslaved people
  1. Provide the examples of conflicts and compromises among differing groups of people during the Constitutional Convention

Standard 3.0 Geography

Topic

A.

Indicator

Objectives

  1. Use map elements to interpret and construct a variety of maps
  1. Use a globe and a variety of maps, atlases to identify natural/physical features of colonial settlements
  1. Use photographs, maps, and drawings to describe geographic characteristics
  1. Compare geographic locations and geographic characteristics of colonial settlements, such as, Jamestown, Plymouth, Boston, Philadelphia, Charleston, and New York City

Topic

B.

Indicator

  • 1. Examine the similarities and differences of regions in Colonial America

Objectives

  1. Compare the natural/physical and human characteristics of the three colonial regions
    • New England
    • Middle
    • Southern
  1. Describe how geographic characteristics of a place or region changed from early settlements through the colonial period
  1. Explain how geographic characteristics affect how people live and work, and the population distribution of a place or region

Topic

C.

Indicator

Objectives

  1. Explain how geographic characteristics influenced settlement patterns in Colonial America
  1. Analyze the consequences of migration between the colonies and immigration to the colonies, such as Europeans and Africans immigrating to the east coast of the United States
  1. Explain the importance of shipping and trading to the economic development of the colonies, such as Triangular Trade

Topic

D.

Indicator

  • 1. Explain why and how people adapt to and modify the natural environment and the impact of those modifications

Objectives

  1. Compare ways Native American societies used the natural environment for food, clothing, and shelter
  1. Describe ways that colonists in the New England, Middle and Southern regions adapted to and modified the environment, such as the uses of the grist mill, water wheels and plantation farming
  1. Explain how colonists adapted to and modified their environments and how these modifications sometimes created environmental problems

Standard 4.0 Economics

Topic

A.

Indicator

  • 1. Explain that people made choices because resources were limited relative to economic wants for goods and services in Colonial America

Objectives

  1. Identify the opportunity cost of economic decisions, such as whether or not to buy products on which British taxes were imposed

Indicator

Objectives

  1. Describe how limited resources and unlimited economic wants caused colonists to choose certain goods and services
  1. Describe how available resources affected specialization and trade
  1. Analyze how changing from a British colony to an independent nation affected economic resources, production, and economic wants

Indicator

Objectives

  1. Explain how the development of new products and new technologies affected the way people lived
  1. Examine how technology has changed production such as wheat/grist mills

Indicator

Objectives

  1. Analyze examples of regional specialization and how it contributed to economic growth through the colonies
  1. Explain specialization and interdependence using the triangular trade routes

Topic

B.

Indicator

  • 1. Describe the types of economic systems in colonial America

Objectives

  1. Identify examples of tradition, such as the economic roles of men and women
  1. Describe examples of command decisions, such as the imposition of the Stamp Act and the Tea Act
  1. Analyze a market economy and give examples of how the colonial economy exhibited these characteristics such as private ownership and consumer choice

Indicator

  • 2. Describe the role of British government on the colonial economy

Objectives

  1. Explain how colonists were forced to change their purchasing habits based on the scarcity of goods imposed by taxes
  1. Evaluate the trade-offs of British protectionism

Indicator

  • 3. Describe the role of money and barter in the colonial trade

Objectives

  1. Compare the benefits of a money economy to a barter economy

Standard 5.0 History

Topic

A.

Indicator

  • 1. Analyze the chronology and significance of key historical events during the age of European exploration

Objectives

  1. Describe the origin, destination and goals of the North American explorers
  1. Evaluate the results of the interactions between European explorers and native peoples

Indicator

  • 2. Analyze the chronology and the significance of key historical events leading to early settlements in Colonial America

Objectives

  1. Describe the major settlements in Roanoke, St. Augustine and Jamestown
  1. Analyze how key historical events impacted Native American societies

Topic

B.

Indicator

  • 2. Analyze the growth and development of colonial America

Objectives

  1. Describe the religious, political and economic motives of individuals who migrated to North America and the difficulties they encountered
  1. Compare the political, economic and social lives of people in New England, Middle and the Southern colonies
  1. Analyze the different roles and viewpoints of individuals and groups, such as women, men, free and enslaved Africans, and Native Americans during the Revolutionary period

Topic

C.

Indicator

  • 1. Analyze the causes of the American Revolution

Objectives

  1. Identify and sequence key events between the French and Indian War and the American Revolution
  1. Examine the viewpoints of Patriots and Loyalists regarding British colonial policy after the Seven Years' War

Indicator

  • 2. Analyze the effects of the American Revolution

Objectives

  1. Analyze how the revolution altered colonial and national governments
  1. Describe individual freedoms that resulted from the formation of an independent nation

Standard 6.0 Social Studies Skills and Processes

Topic

A.

Indicator

  • 1. Use appropriate strategies and opportunities to increase understandings of social studies vocabulary

Objectives

  1. Acquire and apply new vocabulary through investigating, listening, independent reading and discussing a variety of print and non-print sources
  1. Identify and use new vocabulary acquired through study of relationships to prior knowledge and experiences
  1. Use context clues to understand new social studies vocabulary
  1. Use new vocabulary in speaking and writing to gain and extend content knowledge and clarify expression

Indicator

  • 2. Use strategies to prepare for reading (before reading)

Objectives

  1. Identify the characteristics of informational texts, such as print features, graphic aids, informational aids, organizational aids, and online features
  1. Preview the text by examining features, such as the title, pictures, maps, illustrations, photographs, charts, timelines, graphs, and icons
  1. Set a purpose for reading the text
  1. Ask questions and make predictions about the text
  1. Make connections to the text using prior knowledge and experiences

Indicator

  • 3. Use strategies to monitor understanding and derive meaning from text and portions of text (during reading)

Objectives

  1. Identify and use knowledge of organizational structures, such as chronological order, cause/effect, main ideas and details, description, similarities/differences, and problem/solution to gain meaning
  1. Reread slowly and carefully, restate, or read on and revisit difficult parts
  1. Use a graphic organizer or another note-taking technique to record important ideas or information
  1. Look back through the text to search for connections between and among ideas
  1. Make, confirm, or adjust predictions about the text
  1. Periodically summarize or paraphrase important ideas while reading
  1. Visualize what was read for deeper meaning
  1. Explain personal connections to the ideas or information in the text

Indicator

  • 4. Use strategies to demonstrate understanding of the text (after reading)

Objectives

  1. Identify and explain what is directly stated in the text
  1. Identify, paraphrase, or summarize the main idea of the text
  1. Determine and explain the author's purpose
  1. Distinguish between facts and opinions
  1. Explain whether or not the author's opinion is presented fairly
  1. Explain what is not directly stated in the text by drawing inferences
  1. Confirm or refute predictions made about the text to form new ideas
  1. Connect the text to prior knowledge or personal experiences
  1. Draw conclusions and make generalizations based on the text, multiple texts, and/or prior knowledge

Topic

B.

Indicator

  • 1. Use informal writing strategies, such as journal writing, note taking, quick writes, and graphic organizers to clarify, organize, remember and/or express new understandings

Objectives

  1. Identify key ideas
  1. Connect key ideas to prior knowledge (personal experience, text, and world)

Indicator

  • 2. Use formal writing, such as multi-paragraph essays, historical investigations, research reports, letters and summaries to inform

Objectives

  1. Identify form, audience, topic, and purpose before writing
  1. Organize facts and/or data to support a topic
  1. Provide introduction, body, and conclusion
  1. Cite sources of information

Indicator

  • 3. Use formal writing, such as multi-paragraph essays, historical investigations, editorials, and letters to persuade

Objectives

  1. Identify form audience, topic and purpose
  1. State a clear opinion or position
  1. Support the opinion or position with facts and/or data

Indicator

  • 4. Use timed, on-demand writing to demonstrate understanding on assessments (Constructed Responses)

Objectives

  1. Address the topic
  1. Provide accurate information
  1. Support topic with appropriate details
  1. Incorporate social studies knowledge

Topic

C.

Indicator

  • 1. Identify a topic that requires further study

Objectives

  1. Identify prior knowledge about the topic
  1. Pose questions the about the topic
  1. Formulate research questions
  1. Develop a plan for how to answer questions about the topic

Indicator

  • 2. Identify a problem/situation that requires further study

Objectives

  1. Define the problem/situation
  1. Identify prior knowledge about the problem/situation
  1. Pose questions about the problem/ situation from a variety of perspectives
  1. Pose questions that elicit higher order thinking responses
  1. Formulate simple research questions
  1. Develop a plan for how to answer questions about the problem/situation

Topic

D.

Indicator

  • 1. Identify primary and secondary sources of information that relate to the topic/situation/problem being studied

Objectives

  1. Gather and read appropriate print sources, such as textbooks, government documents, timelines, trade books, and web sites
  1. Read and obtain information from texts representing diversity in content, culture, authorship, and perspective
  1. Locate and gather data and information from appropriate non-print sources, such as music, artifacts, charts, maps, graphs, photographs, video clips, illustrations, paintings, political cartoons, interviews, and oral histories

Indicator

  • 2. Engage in field work that relates to the topic/ situation/ problem being studied

Objectives

  1. Gather data
  1. Make and record observations
  1. Design and conduct surveys and oral histories

Topic

E.

Indicator

  • 1. Organize information from non-print sources

Objectives

  1. Prioritize information gathered according to importance and relevance
  1. Distinguish factual from fictional information
  1. Find relationships between gathered information
  1. Display information on various types of graphic organizers, maps, and charts
  1. Categorize information obtained from surveys and field work

Indicator

  • 2. Organize information from print sources

Objectives

  1. Prioritize information gathered according to importance and relevance
  1. Distinguish factual from fictional information
  1. Find relationships between gathered information
  1. Construct various types of graphic organizers, maps, and charts to display information

Topic

F.

Indicator

  • 1. Interpret information from primary and secondary sources

Objectives

  1. Interpret information in maps, charts and graphs
  1. Interpret information from field studies and surveys
  1. Analyze a document to determine point of view
  1. Analyze the perspective of the author
  1. Identify the bias and prejudice

Indicator

  • 2. Evaluate information from a variety of sources

Objectives

  1. Compare information from a variety of sources
  1. Compare information to prior knowledge
  1. Determine the reliability of the document

Indicator

  • 3. Synthesize information from a variety of sources

Objectives

  1. Recognize relationships in and among ideas or events, such as cause and effect, sequential order, main idea, and details

Topic

G.

Indicator

  • 1. Describe how the country has changed over time and how people have contributed to its change, drawing from maps, photographs, newspapers, and other sources

Objectives

  1. Present social studies information in a variety ways, such as mock trials, simulations, debates, and skits
  1. Engage in civic participation and public discourse

Indicator

  • 2. Use historic contexts to answer questions

Objectives

  1. Use historically accurate resources to answer questions, make predictions, and support ideas
  1. Explain why historic interpretations vary and are subject to change
  1. Construct a sound historical interpretation

Indicator

  • 3. Use current events/issues to answer questions

Objectives

  1. Summarize the main points of an issue explaining different viewpoints
  1. Make a decision based on the analysis of issues and evaluate the consequences of these decisions
  1. Identify and formulate a position on a course of action or an issue
  1. Propose and justify solutions to social studies problems

Date: 6/20/2006