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GRADE 5 CURRICULUM PlAN FOR SOCIAL STUDIES

LESSONS STANDARDS and OBJECTIVES

First Quarter

“The standards for K-5 reading in history/social

studies, science, and technical subjects are integrated

into the K-5 Reading standards. The CCR anchor

standards and high school standards in literacy work

in tandem to define college and career readiness

expectations—the former providing broad standards,

 Learn about Maps the latter providing additional specificity.”

 How to Read a Map? Students expected to know the following

 Cardinal and Intermediate objectives by the end of this quarter:

Directions
 Know the following definitions: Cardinal
 How to Tell Directions?
Directions, Compass, Intermediate

Directions, and the Compass rose.

 Learn how to tell directions during the day

and the night.

 Learn how to tell directions if the weather

is cloudy.

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Second Quarter

Students expected to know the following

objectives by the end of this quarter:

 Know the following definitions: Peninsula.

 Know the countries of the Arabian

Peninsula.
 The Arab Countries
 Know the borders of the Arabian
 Countries of the Arabian
Peninsula Peninsula.

 Borders of the Arabian Peninsula

Third Quarter

Students expected to know the following

 Learn about Earth
objectives by the end of this quarter:
 As Earth Goes Round
 Know the following definitions: Equator,
 Weather and Climate
sphere, Northern Hemisphere, Southern
 Land and Water
Hemisphere, axis, weather, and climate.

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 Learn that there are four seasons a year:

Spring, summer, autumn, and winter.

 Know the following definitions: Peninsula,

gulf, spring, rainforest, island, oasis,

desert, and waterfall.

Fourth Quarter

Students expected to know the following

objectives by the end of this quarter:

 Know the following definitions: Pangaea,

 Changes Through Time Panthalassa, and transportation.

 How Old Is Planet Earth?  Know that people, long ago, did not have

 Transportation cars, airplanes or trains.

 Know that when the wheel was invented,

transportation became easier.

 Know some information about the means

of transportation in the past.

 Know some information about some

modern means of transportation.