How to learn Grade 5: Social studies
New Mexico academic standards: Social studies, Grade 5
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1. Fifth Grade · Personal Financial Literacy
- 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 · Economic Systems and Models
- How the Economy Works: What an economy is; producers and consumers; supply and demand; why prices change; the basics of how markets work
3. Fifth Grade · Diversity and Identity
- Prejudice and Discrimination: Understand the impact of prejudice and discrimination on individuals and communities — that treating people unfairly because of their identity causes real harm — and recognise their own responsibility to stand against it
- The world contains many cultures, traditions: Understand that the world contains many cultures, traditions, and belief systems, and that learning about others' perspectives enriches our own understanding — developing genuine curiosity about and respect for cultural diversity
4. Fifth Grade · Critical Consciousness and Perspectives
- Understanding People in Their Own Time: Understand that people in the past saw the world very differently from us — judge their actions by the context they lived in, not only by today's values
5. Fifth Grade · Cause and Consequence
- 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