How to learn Grade 5: Social studies

Colorado academic standards: Social studies, Grade 5

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1. Fifth Grade · Examine how individuals use financial institutions to manage personal finances.

1. Emotions and Decision-Making: Understand how emotions influence thinking and decision-making — that strong feelings can cloud judgement, that we often make different choices when calm versus when upset, and that recognising this gives us more control
2. Banks & Saving: What banks do and why people use them; bank accounts as safe places for money; that savings in a bank can earn interest; children's savings accounts
3. Financial Planning: Setting longer-term financial goals; planning and prioritising spending; how saving regularly adds up over time; the value of thinking ahead with money

2. Fifth Grade · Construct an understanding of the foundations, rights, and responsibilities of citizenship in the United States.

1. Vocabulary: ethics and citizenship: Know and use the vocabulary of ethics and citizenship — bullying, cyberbullying, bystander, upstander, peer pressure, digital citizenship, rights, responsibility, and ethical — and understand the distinctions between these closely related terms
2. Community Rights and Responsibilities: Understand their rights and responsibilities as a member of a community — that everyone has a right to be treated with respect and to feel safe, and that with rights come responsibilities to treat others the same way

3. Fifth Grade · Explain how patterns of trade shaped the development of Early America.

1. Global Trade: Why countries trade with each other; imports and exports; how goods travel around the world; that different countries use different currencies

4. Fifth Grade · Analyze primary and secondary sources from multiple points of view to develop an understanding of early United States history.

1. Vocabulary: historical thinking: Know and use the vocabulary of historical thinking — source, evidence, primary source, secondary source, artefact, chronology, chronological order, BC/BCE, AD/CE, century, decade, era, period, timeline, excavation, archaeologist, interpretation, corroborate, bias, perspective — and apply these terms when discussing how we know about the past and how reliable our knowledge is