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Web Resources Supporting the Maryland Voluntary State Curriculum
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Social Studies - Grade 5
History | Geography | Economics | Political | Peoples of the Nations |
HISTORY
Standard 1.0 |
| Students will examine significant ideas, beliefs, and themes; organize patterns and events; and analyze how individuals and societies have changed over time in Maryland and the United States. Students will use historical thinking skills to understand how individuals and events have changed society over time. |
Topic
A. History |
Indicator
1. Describe the major settlements of North America societies indigenous to North America
Objectives
a. Identify the early migratory patterns and settlements that existed in North America prior to contact with Europeans
b. Describe the cultural characteristics of major North American Native societies, such as food, clothing, shelter, language, tools, transportation, religious beliefs, recreation and traditions
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2. Explain the significance and chronology of key historical events during the age of European exploration
Objectives
a. Identify the origin, destination and goals of the early explorers
b. Identify the key events in European exploration and organize them in chronological order
c. Explain the results of the interactions between European explorers and North American natives
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3. Analyze the growth and development of Colonial America using a variety of primary and secondary sources
Objectives
a. Describe the religious, political, and economic motives of individuals who migrated to North America and the difficulties they encountered
b. Explain the consequences of migration to the colonies including the impact on North American native societies
c. Analyze the impact of slavery on enslaved and free Africans and colonist in Colonial America
d. Compare the daily life of people in New England, Mid-Atlantic and the Southern colonies using case studies
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4. Evaluate the causes of the American Revolution using a variety of primary and secondary resources
Objectives
a. Describe the different roles and viewpoints of individuals and groups, such as women, men, free and enslaved Africans, and Native Americans during the Revolutionary period
b. Explain the viewpoints of Patriots and Loyalists about the changes in British colonial policy after the Seven Years' War using a variety of primary and secondary resources, such as the Proclamation of 1763, the Stamp Act, Common Sense, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers and political cartoons
c. Identify and sequence key events that affected the relationship between the British and the colonist the Constitutional Convention
Indicator
5. Analyze the effects of the American Revolution using a variety of primary and secondary sources
Objectives
a. Describe how the revolution altered society such as abolition of slavery in the north, extension of women's rights, and development of more free black communities
b. Describe how America's relationship with Europe changed such as competing international interests and goals
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- America's Story...Includes a short, easy to read overview, but the most interesting part is the "More Stories About" section
- National Park Service Museum...American Revolutionary War homepage offers pictures and describes the formation of America's first army in the Valley Forge section
- BrainPOP...has a cartoon video demonstrating the events leading to the Revolution
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GEOGRAPHY
Standard 2.0 |
| Students will use geographic concepts and processes to examine the role of culture, technology, and the environment in the location and distribution of human activities and spatial connections throughout time. Students will use geographic concepts and processes to understand location and its relationship to human activities. |
Topic
A. Geography |
Indicator
1. Locate places and describe human and physical characteristics of those places using geographic tools
Objectives
a. Describe the geographic characteristics of colonial America using maps
b. Compare geographic locations of settlements from American History, such as the thirteen colonies, Jamestown, Plymouth, St. Mary's City, Boston, Philadelphia, and New York
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2. Explain the similarities and differences of regions in the United States
Objectives
a. Compare the natural/physical and human characteristics of the three colonial regions
- New England
- Middle
- Southern
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3. Analyze how transportation and communication networks facilitate the movement of goods, ideas and people
Objectives
a. Explain the importance of shipping and trading, such as triangular trade to the economic development of the colonies and Britain
b. Explain why and where early colonists settled
c. Analyze the consequences of migration from colony to colony and immigration to the colonies, such as the Europeans to the east coast of the U.S.
Indicator
4. Explain why people modify the natural environment and the impact of those modifications
Objectives
a. Describe ways that colonists in the New England, Middle and the Southern regions adapted to and modified the environment, such as the use of the grist mill, water wheel, and plantation farming
b. Explain how the geographic characteristics of the colonial regions influenced the way colonists adapted to and modified their environments and how these modifications sometimes created environmental problems
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ECONOMICS
Standard 3.0 |
| Students will develop economic reasoning to understand the historical development and current status of economic principles, institutions, and processes needed to be effective citizens, consumers, and workers participating in local communities, the nation, and the world. Students will identify the economic principles and processes that are helpful to producers and consumers when making good decisions. |
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Indicator
1. Describe how limited economic resources (natural, human, capital) were used in the production process to provide goods and services to satisfy economic wants in Colonial America.
Objectives
a. Explain how limited resources and unlimited economic wants caused colonists to choose certain goods and services and give up others
b. Explain how available economic resources, production, and consumer wants changed over time in the colonies, such as limited trade during the Revolutionary War
Indicator
2. Explain how taxes financed government operations and provided public goods and services during the American Revolution
Objective
a. Identify public goods and services provided by the government
b. Explain the consequences of taxes imposed by government
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3. Describe examples of supply and demand in markets in colonial Maryland
Objectives
a. Describe how political decisions in colonial America impacted supply and demand of raw products and manufactured goods
b. Describe how political decisions in colonial America impacted supply and demand of raw products and manufactured goods
Indicator
4. Examine examples of economic decisions of the American colonists
Objectives
a. Identify the costs and benefits of decisions, such as whether or not to buy produced on which British taxes were imposed
b. Identify the costs and benefits of economic decisions made by American colonists
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5. Explain how technological changes have affected the production of goods and services over time
Objectives
a. Explain how inventions, transportation, and communication have affected some people's standard of living
b. Explain how technology has changed the production of goods and services, such as wheat/grist mills, crops/farm equipment, horseshoe/artisan tools, candles/candle molds
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6. Explain the consequences of specialized work on interdependence, trade, and economic growth before 1790
Objectives
a. Identify economic activities, including trade, of Native American societies that lived in Colonial America
b. Explain the consequences of specialized work on interdependence, trade, and economic growth
c. Explain how specialization and interdependence resulted from the triangular trade routes
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- The Stamp Act... discusses why colonists were taxed and the reaction of colonists
- Boston Massacre... this website gives information and provides additional links
- Boston Tea Party... this website gives information and provides additional links
- See Boston Massacre and Boston Tea Party from above.
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POLITICAL
Standard 4.0 |
| Students will understand the historical development and current status of the fundamental concepts and processes of authority, power, and influence, with particular emphasis on the democratic skills and attitudes necessary to become responsible citizens. Students will understand the historical development and current status of the democratic principles and the development of skills and attitudes necessary to become responsible citizens. |
Topic
A. Political Science |
Indicator
1. Describe how Europe's philosophies and policies affected the political structure of the early American Colonies
Objectives
a. Describe how the policies affected the interactions of explorers and colonists with Native Americans such as the French and Indian War
b. Explain how limited government or constitutional governments differ unlimited governments
c. Identify how the democratic principles, such as consent of the governed, representative democracy, and the limitation of power influenced our founding documents
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2. Analyze the historic events, documents, and practices that are the foundations of our political systems
Objectives
a. Identify early examples of self-government such as the Mayflower Compact and the House of Burgesses
b. Analyze the principles articulated in the Articles of the Confederation and the successes and failures in meeting the challenges of governing
c. Describe the three branches of government and their individual powers and responsibilities as examples of separation of powers and checks and balances
d. Identify and explain the meaning and importance of democratic principles and values of the United States Government that evolved during the revolutionary period
Indicator
3. Analyze how individuals roles and perspectives shape the American Political system
Objectives
a. Examine the contributions of people associated with the drafting of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution
b. Analyze how individuals with varying economic and regional interest contributed to the first political parties and special interest group
Indicator
4. Describe the rights and responsibilities of being a citizen of the United States
Objectives
a. Describe responsibilities associated with certain basic rights of citizens, such as freedom of speech, religion, and press, and explain why these responsibilities are important
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5. Explain the importance of civic participation as a citizen of the United States
Objectives
a. Analyze the usefulness of various sources of information used to make political decisions
b. Describe ways people can participate in the political process including voting, petitioning elected officials, and volunteering
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- Historical Documents... Ben's Guide to documents (Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, Constitution, etc.), written with kids in mind
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PEOPLES OF THE NATIONS AND THE WORLD
Standard 5.0 |
| Students will understand the diversity and commonality, human interdependence, and global cooperation of the people of Maryland, the United States and the World through a multicultural and historic perspective. Students will understand how people in Maryland, the United States and around the world are alike and different. |
Topic
A. Peoples of the Nations and the World
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Indicator
1. Describe the various cultures of the North American Native American societies and how their environment influenced them
Objectives
a. Describe how the native societies expressed their culture through music, story, art and dance
b. Describe the impact of location on the Native American way of life
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2. Analyze how the native societies were influenced by the diverse cultures of the explorers and settlers
Objectives
a. Describe how the native societies responded to exploration including examples of compromise or conflict
b. Compare perspectives of Native American societies and the European explorers
c. Describe how cultures changed as a result of European and Native American interaction
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3. Describe and compare cultural characteristics of various groups of people in the American Experience
Objectives
a. Identify different religious, economic, and ethnic groups that migrated to the American colonies
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4. Compare the causes and consequences of conflict
Objectives
a. Analyze how conflicts affect relationships among individuals and groups such as early settlers and the Native Americans
b. Explain how conflicts were resolved between different groups of people during the American Revolution
c. Analyze how conflicts affect relationships among individuals and groups, such as the Patriots v. Loyalists
d. Explain how conflicts were or were not resolved between different groups of people during the Constitutional Convention
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