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SS.3-5.IS Inquiry

• Constructing Essential Questions

  • SS.3-5.IS.1 Develop essential questions and explain the importance of the questions to self and others.

    • Antebellum Period: slavery and politics part I (5-H.7)
    • Antebellum Period: slavery and politics part II (5-H.8)
    • Reconstruction (5-I.5)
    • World War I: the road to war (5-J.1)
    • World War I: the war begins (5-J.2)
    • The Great Depression: part I (5-J.5)
    • The Great Depression: part II (5-J.6)
    • What is economics? (5-N.1)

• Constructing Supporting Questions

  • SS.3-5.IS.2 Students generate supporting questions that require investigation to help answer essential questions.

    • Antebellum Period: slavery and politics part I (5-H.7)
    • Antebellum Period: slavery and politics part II (5-H.8)
    • Reconstruction (5-I.5)
    • World War I: the road to war (5-J.1)
    • World War I: the war begins (5-J.2)
    • The Great Depression: part I (5-J.5)
    • The Great Depression: part II (5-J.6)
    • What is economics? (5-N.1)

• Determining Helpful Resources

  • SS.3-5.IS.3 Identify varied resources that answer essential and student-generated questions and that take into consideration multiple points of view.

    • Source analysis: the Boston Massacre (6-JJ.4)

• Gathering and Evaluating Sources

  • SS.3-5.IS.4 Gather relevant information and distinguish between fact and opinion to determine credibility of multiple sources.

    • Identify facts and opinions (5-Q.1)
    • Identify primary and secondary sources (6-JJ.1)
    • Source analysis: the Boston Massacre (6-JJ.4)

• Developing Claims and Using Evidence

  • SS.3-5.IS.5 Develop claims using evidence from multiple sources to answer essential questions.

    • Source analysis: the Boston Massacre (6-JJ.4)

• Communicating Conclusions

  • SS.3-5.IS.6 Construct arguments using claims and evidence from multiple sources.

    • Antebellum Period: abolitionist and proslavery perspectives (5-H.6)
    • Source analysis: the Boston Massacre (6-JJ.4)

  • SS.3-5.IS.7 Construct explanations using reasoning, correct sequences, examples, and details with relevant information and data.

    • Identify facts and opinions (5-Q.1)
    • Identify primary and secondary sources (6-JJ.1)

  • SS.3-5.IS.8 Present a summary of arguments and explanations to others inside and/or outside of the classroom using print and oral technologies.

• Critiquing Conclusions

  • SS.3-5.IS.9 Explain the use of inquiry strategies, approaches, and relevant sources that will allow students to address local, regional, state, national, and global problems.

• Taking Informed Action

  • SS.3-5.IS.10 Students will engage in reflective conversations to draw conclusions on inquiry findings and create action steps that consider multiple viewpoints.

SS.5.CV Civics

• Civic and Political Institutions

  • SS.5.CV.1 Explain the roles and responsibilities of government officials at the local, state, and national levels and investigate how the roles and responsibilities of the three branches of government have changed over time.

    • Reconstruction (5-I.5)
    • The New Deal (5-J.7)
    • Local government (5-K.1)
    • State government (5-K.2)
    • Federal government (5-K.3)

  • SS.5.CV.2 Examine the origins and purposes of rules, laws, and key provisions of the U.S. Constitution and investigate the impact they had/have on multiple groups of people.

    • The Constitution (5-K.4)
    • The Bill of Rights (5-K.5)
    • Checks and balances (5-K.6)

  • SS.5.CV.3 Compare and contrast the U.S. government to other global governments in their structure and systems of governing with consideration for their impact on equitable outcomes.

• Processes, Rules, and Laws

  • SS.5.CV.4 Using evidence, explain how policies are developed to address public problems and concerns and achieve equitable outcomes.

    • Reconstruction (5-I.5)
    • The New Deal (5-J.7)
    • The Constitution (5-K.4)

SS.5.EC Economics/Financial Literacy

• Exchange and Markets

  • SS.5.EC.1 Analyze why and how individuals, businesses, and nations around the world specialize and trade.

    • Trade and specialization (6-GG.4)

• National and Global Economy

  • SS.5.EC.2 Discover how positive incentives (e.g., sale prices, earning money) and negative consequences (e.g., library fines, parking tickets) influence behavior in the U.S. economy and around the world.

    • What is economics? (5-N.1)
    • Costs and benefits (5-N.2)
    • Opportunity cost (5-N.3)
    • Understand quantity supplied and quantity demanded (5-P.1)
    • Understand overall supply and demand (5-P.2)
    • Create and use supply and demand curves (5-P.3)
    • Identify shortage and surplus (5-P.4)
    • Identify shortage and surplus with graphs (5-P.5)
    • Identify shortage and surplus with data (5-P.6)

  • SS.5.EC.3 Determine the ways in which government pays for goods and services it provides.

    • Local government (5-K.1)

• Financial Literacy

  • SS.5.EC.4 Explain that interest is the price the borrower pays for using someone else's money.

    • Banks (5-O.1)

SS.5.G Geography

• Geographic Representations: Spatial Views of the World

  • SS.5.G.1 Use print and digital maps of different scales to describe the locations of cultural and environmental characteristics.

    • Read a map: cardinal directions (5-A.1)
    • Identify lines of latitude and longitude (5-A.2)
    • Use lines of latitude and longitude (5-A.3)
    • Identify Earth's land features using photographs (5-B.1)
    • Identify Earth's land features using satellite images (5-B.2)
    • Identify oceans and continents (5-B.3)
    • Select oceans and continents (5-B.4)
    • Name oceans and continents (5-B.5)
    • New England colonies: economy and conflict (5-F.5)
    • Middle colonies: economy and society (5-F.7)
    • Southern colonies: economy and slavery (5-F.9)
    • Antebellum Period: economies of the North and South (5-H.5)

  • SS.5.G.2 Investigate and explain how the cultural and environmental characteristics of places within the United States change over time.

    • New England colonies: religion and government (5-F.4)
    • New England colonies: economy and conflict (5-F.5)
    • Middle colonies: founding and government (5-F.6)
    • Middle colonies: economy and society (5-F.7)
    • Southern colonies: founding and government (5-F.8)
    • Southern colonies: economy and slavery (5-F.9)
    • The Louisiana Purchase (5-H.1)
    • The Lewis and Clark Expedition (5-H.2)
    • Antebellum Period: economies of the North and South (5-H.5)
    • Reconstruction (5-I.5)

• Human Population: Spatial Patterns and Movements

  • SS.5.G.3 Explain how human settlements and technological advancements have impacted natural resources.

    • New England colonies: economy and conflict (5-F.5)
    • Middle colonies: economy and society (5-F.7)
    • Southern colonies: economy and slavery (5-F.9)
    • Antebellum Period: economies of the North and South (5-H.5)

• Global Interconnections: Changing Spatial Patterns

  • SS.5.G.4 Analyze the effects of catastrophic environmental and technological events on human settlements and migration.

    • Antebellum Period: economies of the North and South (5-H.5)
    • The Neolithic Period (6-A.1)
    • Pre-contact Native Peoples: introduction (6-P.)
    • The Age of Exploration: origins (6-Q.1)
    • The Columbian Exchange (6-Q.6)

SS.5.H History

• Change, Continuity, and Context

  • SS.5.H.1 Create and use a chronological sequence of related events to identify cause and effects of relationships in history and the impacts of underrepresented groups.

    • The War of 1812: causes (5-H.3)
    • The War of 1812: events and effects (5-H.4)
    • World War I: events of the war (5-J.3)
    • World War I: the road to peace (5-J.4)
    • The Great Depression: part I (5-J.5)
    • World War II: lead-up to war in Europe, Asia (5-J.8)
    • World War II: global events (5-J.9)
    • Reading and creating timelines with BCE and CE (5-Q.2)

• Historical Sources and Evidence

  • SS.5.H.2 Use information about a historical source, including the creator (author), date, place of origin, intended audience, and purpose, to judge the extent to which the source is useful for studying a particular topic.

    • Antebellum Period: abolitionist and proslavery perspectives (5-H.6)
    • Identify primary and secondary sources (6-JJ.1)
    • Source analysis: the Boston Massacre (6-JJ.4)

• Causation and Argumentation

  • SS.5.H.3 Summarize the central claim in a work of history.

    • Source analysis: the Declaration of Independence (6-JJ.5)
    • Source analysis: the Gettysburg Address (6-JJ.6)