Grade: Five Unit: My Country-United States Unit Narrative Overarching Essential Question(s) Topical Essential Questions Understand Know

Be able to do Physical and Cultural Geography What perspectives and influences guided the formation of our country and does it matter which perspectives and influences were used? What is the relationship between physical and cultural geography?

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Power Standard

PS#1 Inquiry - Students investigate the causes and effects of societal issues (past and present) by designing and communicating

research, using evidence and data to make interpretations, and applying findings to generalize understanding of societies and public issue, and the implications for the future.

PS#2 History - Students analyze the influences of the past on the present, and their implication for the future by understanding and
interpreting periods of conflict, change, and continuity in history.

PS#3 Physical and Cultural Geography Students learn and apply physical geography skills and the tools to identify
locations; then investigate, understand, and analyze how cultures form and change over time and across various locations.

PS#5 Economics - Students recognize and analyze the relationships among the needs and wants of individuals, societies, and

governments, and identify and evaluate the economic and environmental factors that influence choices and decisions while accounting for the availability of resources.

Power Indicators

Explain how people, ideas, and events through history have influenced or shaped our country today. Make predictions about the future of the United States based on understanding of past and present. (i.e. What laws may change or be added over time? How will government change? What natural resources may disappear in our countrys future?) Describe a region of the U.S. in terms of the 5 themes of geography. (movement, human interactions, regions, locations exact location, place describing the area) Identify and locate major mountain ranges, bodies of water, cities, climates and vegetation zones in the Untied States and North America. Use basic elements of a map including latitude and longitude, to read a variety of representations of the earth. Investigate and give evidence of ways in which culture in the United States has changed. Define basic economic concepts, (needs vs. wants, supply and demand, human and natural resources, taxes, renewable vs. nonrenewable, currency, trade, barter, economy). Identify the resources within a region of our country and give examples of how they influence the goods and services of that region describing their importance and impact.

Inquiry Focus Activities Resources Assessment

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Concepts/ Vocab

Grade: Five Unit: My Country United States Unit Narrative Overarching Essential Question(s) Topical Essential Questions U.S. Government What perspectives and influences guided the formation of our country and does it matter which perspectives and influences were used? How might a government guard against abuses of power?

FNWSU Social Studies Grade 5 June 2010

Power Standards

PS#1 Inquiry Students investigate the causes and effects of societal issues (past and present) by designing and communicating

research, using evidence and data to make interpretations, and applying findings to generalize understanding of societies and public issue, and the implications for the future.

PS#2 History - Students analyze the influences of the past on the present, and their implication for the future by understanding and
interpreting periods of conflict, change, and continuity in history.

PS#4 Civics, Government, and Society - Students examine the democratic principle to compare and contrast different types
of governments, debate the rights and obligations of citizenship within them, and evaluate the concept of human rights and responsibilities within those institutions from local, national, and global perspectives in various times.

PS#5 Economics - Students recognize and analyze the relationships among the needs and wants of individuals, societies, and

governments, and identify and evaluate the economic and environmental factors that influence choices and decisions while accounting for the availability of resources.

Power Indicators

Examine an important event in the United States and identify the causes and effects of the event. Make predictions about the future of the United States based on understanding of past and present. (i.e. What laws may change or be added over time? How will government change? What natural resources may disappear in our countrys future?) Explain the purpose of government. Why do we have one? Compare and contrast the purpose and powers of the 3 branches of government. Explain the rights and responsibilities of U.S. citizens. Create a representation (model, flowchart, graph) to describe the process of how a bill becomes a law. Define basic economic concepts, (needs vs. wants, supply and demand, human and natural resources, taxes, renewable vs. nonrenewable, currency, trade, barter, economy).

Inquiry Focus Assessment Concepts/ Vocab

FNWSU Social Studies Grade 5 June 2010

Grade: Five Unit: My Country United States Unit Narrative Overarching Essential Question(s): Topical Essential Questions: Migration: explorers, Native Americans, Colonization What perspectives and influences guided the formation of our country and does it matter which perspectives and influences were used? Why does movement happen?

FNWSU Social Studies Grade 5 June 2010

Power Standards

PS#1 Inquiry - Students investigate the causes and effects of societal issues (past and present) by designing and communicating
research, using evidence and data to make interpretations, and applying findings to generalize understanding of societies and public issue, and the implications for the future.

PS#2 History - Students analyze the influences of the past on the present, and their implication for the future by understanding and
interpreting periods of conflict, change, and continuity in history.

PS#3 Physical and Cultural Geography - Students learn, and apply physical geography skills and the tools to identify
locations; then investigate, understand, and analyze how cultures form and change over time and across various locations.

PS#4 Civics, Government, and Society - Students examine the democratic principle to compare and contrast different
types of governments, debate the rights and obligations of citizenship within them, and evaluate the concept of human rights and responsibilities within those institutions from local, national, and global perspectives in various times.

PS#5 Economics - Students recognize and analyze the relationships among the needs and wants of individuals, societies, and

governments, and identify and evaluate the economic and environmental factors that influence choices and decisions while accounting for the availability of resources.

Power Indicators

Explain how people, ideas, and events through history have influenced of shaped our country today. Identify multiple perspectives, (attitudes, values, and behaviors) of people in different historical contexts in the U.S. and how they compare to current perspectives. Examine an important event in the United States and identify the causes and effects of the event. Identify patterns of voluntary and involuntary migrations in the U.S. Investigate and analyze the role and response of the U.S. government to civil rights issues from past/present. Define basic economic concepts, (needs vs. wants, supply and demand, human and natural resources, taxes, renewable vs. nonrenewable, currency, trade, barter, economy).

Inquiry Focus Assessment Concepts/ Vocab

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