Iowa

Inquiry Standards

• Inquiry Practice: Develop Questions and Plan Inquiries

  • SS.5.1 Develop and refine questions to actively shape and advance the investigation of the topic.

• Inquiry Practice: Gather, Interpret, and Evaluate Sources

  • SS.5.2 Interpret information about specific perspectives or beliefs from sources.

• Inquiry Practice: Claims and Evidence

  • SS.5.3 Make a claim about a topic and support it with evidence from one or more sources.

• Inquiry Practice: Communicate Conclusions

  • SS.5.4 Construct responses to questions using reasoning, examples, and relevant details.

• Inquiry Practice: Civic Engagement and Participation

  • SS.5.5 Identify the strategies people and/or groups use to advocate for a cause, and evaluate the civic virtues reflected by those strategies.

The Constitution and Bill of Rights

• Civics/Government: Constitutional Principles and Civic Virtues

  • SS.5.6 Describe the origin, purpose, and impact of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

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

• Civics/Government: Processes, Rules, and Laws

  • SS.5.7 Explain the processes by which laws are created, changed, limited, upheld, and removed.

    • Local government (5-O.1)
    • State government (5-O.2)
    • Federal government (5-O.3)

• Civics/Government: Role and Systems of Government

  • SS.5.8 Describe how the Constitution ensures federalism, including examples of how power is shared between federal and state government.

    • The Constitution (5-O.4)

• Civics/Government: Citizenship and Civic Rights and Responsibilities

  • SS.5.9 Explain the protections provided under the Bill of Rights and the responsibilities that accompany exercising these rights.

    • The Bill of Rights (5-O.5)

The Civil War

• History: Change, Continuity, and Context

  • SS.5.10 Analyze the multiple economic, political, and social changes and divisions that brought about and affected the Civil War.

    • Abraham Lincoln (5)
    • Frederick Douglass (5)
    • Harriet Tubman (5)
    • Antebellum Period: economies of the North and South (5-J.5)
    • Antebellum Period: abolitionist and proslavery perspectives (5-J.6)
    • Antebellum Period: slavery and politics part I (5-J.7)
    • Antebellum Period: slavery and politics part II (5-J.8)
    • The Civil War: the beginning of the war (5-K.1)
    • The Civil War: the First Battle of Bull Run to Gettysburg (5-K.2)
    • The Civil War: war tactics and the home front (5-K.3)
    • The Civil War: the end of the war (5-K.4)

• Geography: Places and Regions

  • SS.5.11 Generate geographic representations to illustrate how cultural and physical characteristics of U.S. regions affected the Civil War.

• Civics/Government: Constitutional Principles and Civic Virtues

  • SS.5.12 Examine legislative efforts, court decisions, and social movements intended to promote peace before, during and after the Civil War.

    • Reconstruction (5-K.5)

Industrial Revolution

• Geography: Human Movement and Patterns

  • SS.5.13 Examine the impact that railroad transportation had on the movement of populations in the United States.

• History: Change, Continuity, and Context

  • SS.5.14 Analyze the impacts of significant inventions of the Industrial Revolution.

• History: Historical Interpretation and Argumentation

  • SS.5.15 Identify how the Industrial Revolution changed living conditions for people in both rural areas and growing cities.

• Economics/Financial Literacy: Economic Decision Making

  • SS.5.16 Explain how the Industrial Revolution caused significant population shifts and analyze the effects of these shifts on cities and rural populations, labor, and society.

Civil Rights

• Civics/Government: Constitutional Principles and Civic Virtues

  • SS.5.17 Analyze key events, individuals, and campaigns that have been driven by a desire to create positive social change.

    • Susan B. Anthony (5)
    • Thurgood Marshall (5)
    • Rosa Parks (5)
    • Martin Luther King Jr. (5)

• Civics/Government: Processes, Rules, and Laws

  • SS.5.18 Examine various laws and their impact on the equal rights of American citizens.

    • Reconstruction (5-K.5)
    • The Bill of Rights (5-O.5)

• History: Chronological Reasoning and Causation

  • SS.5.19 Evaluate the progression of key events of the Civil Rights Movement.

• History: Multiple Perspectives

  • SS.5.20 Investigate how youth played a role in the Civil Rights Movement by engaging in various forms of activism in Iowa and around the nation.

Making Smart Financial Decisions (Financial Literacy)

• Economics/Financial Literacy: Credit and Risk Management

  • SS.5.21 Describe reasons and considerations for financial borrowing.

• Economics/Financial Literacy: Saving, Spending, and Investing

  • SS.5.22 Compare different ways to save and invest money.

    • Banks (5-T.1)

• Economics/Financial Literacy: Financial and Career Goals

  • SS.5.23 Determine aspects of long-term financial goals.

• Economics/Financial Literacy: Economic Systems

  • SS.5.24 Describe different types of taxes, including how they are collected and the public benefits they fund.