Vermont
Skills available for Vermont fifth-grade social studies standards
Standards are in black and IXL social studies skills are in dark green. Hold your mouse over the name of a skill to view a sample question. Click on the name of a skill to practice that skill.
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- College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework
- College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework (2013) College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework (2013)
- Vermont Grade Expectations (2004) Vermont Grade Expectations (2004)
Actions
D1 Developing Questions and Planning Inquiries
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Constructing Compelling Questions
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D1.1.3-5 Explain why compelling questions are important to others (e.g., peers, adults).
- 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)
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D1.2.3-5 Identify disciplinary concepts and ideas associated with a compelling question that are open to different interpretations.
- 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)
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Constructing Supporting Questions
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D1.3.3-5 Identify the disciplinary concepts and ideas associated with a supporting question that are open to interpretation.
- 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)
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D1.4.3-5 Explain how supporting questions help answer compelling questions in an inquiry.
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Determining Helpful Sources
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D1.5.3-5 Determine the kinds of sources that will be helpful in answering compelling and supporting questions, taking into consideration the different opinions people have about how to answer the questions.
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D2 Applying Disciplinary Concepts and Tools
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Civics
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Civic and Political Institutions
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D2.Civ.1.3-5 Distinguish the responsibilities and powers of government officials at various levels and branches of government and in different times and places.
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D2.Civ.2.3-5 Explain how a democracy relies on people's responsible participation, and draw implications for how individuals should participate.
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D2.Civ.3.3-5 Examine the origins and purposes of rules, laws, and key U.S. constitutional provisions.
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D2.Civ.4.3-5 Explain how groups of people make rules to create responsibilities and protect freedoms.
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D2.Civ.5.3-5 Explain the origins, functions, and structure of different systems of government, including those created by the U.S. and state constitutions.
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D2.Civ.6.3-5 Describe ways in which people benefit from and are challenged by working together, including through government, workplaces, voluntary organizations, and families.
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Participation and Deliberation: Applying Civic Virtues and Democratic Principles
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D2.Civ.7.3-5 Apply civic virtues and democratic principles in school settings.
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D2.Civ.8.3-5 Identify core civic virtues and democratic principles that guide government, society, and communities.
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D2.Civ.9.3-5 Use deliberative processes when making decisions or reaching judgments as a group.
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D2.Civ.10.3-5 Identify the beliefs, experiences, perspectives, and values that underlie their own and others' points of view about civic issues.
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Processes, Rules, and Laws
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D2.Civ.11.3-5 Compare procedures for making decisions in a variety of settings, including classroom, school, government, and/or society.
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D2.Civ.12.3-5 Explain how rules and laws change society and how people change rules and laws.
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D2.Civ.13.3-5 Explain how policies are developed to address public problems.
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D2.Civ.14.3-5 Illustrate historical and contemporary means of changing society.
- The American Revolution: the Thirteen Colonies under British rule (5-G.1)
- The American Revolution: New British taxes (5-G.2)
- The American Revolution: the Boston Tea Party (5-G.3)
- The American Revolution: the rebellion begins (5-G.4)
- The American Revolution: preparing for war (5-G.5)
- The American Revolution: struggle for independence (5-G.6)
- The American Revolution: turning the tide of the war (5-G.7)
- The American Revolution: conclusion and aftermath (5-G.8)
- Antebellum Period: abolitionist and proslavery perspectives (5-H.6)
- Reconstruction (5-I.5)
- The New Deal (5-J.7)
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Economics
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Economic Decision Making
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D2.Eco.1.3-5 Compare the benefits and costs of individual choices.
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D2.Eco.2.3-5 Identify positive and negative incentives that influence the decisions people make.
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Exchange and Markets
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D2.Eco.3.3-5 Identify examples of the variety of resources (human capital, physical capital, and natural resources) that are used to produce goods and services.
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D2.Eco.4.3-5 Explain why individuals and businesses specialize and trade.
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D2.Eco.5.3-5 Explain the role of money in making exchange easier.
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D2.Eco.6.3-5 Explain the relationship between investment in human capital, productivity, and future incomes.
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D2.Eco.7.3-5 Explain how profits influence sellers in markets.
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D2.Eco.8.3-5 Identify examples of external benefits and costs.
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D2.Eco.9.3-5 Describe the role of other financial institutions in an economy.
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The National Economy
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D2.Eco.10.3-5 Explain what interest rates are.
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D2.Eco.11.3-5 Explain the meaning of inflation, deflation, and unemployment.
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D2.Eco.12.3-5 Explain the ways in which the government pays for the goods and services it provides.
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D2.Eco.13.3-5 Describe ways people can increase productivity by using improved capital goods and improving their human capital.
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The Global Economy
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D2.Eco.14.3-5 Explain how trade leads to increasing economic interdependence among nations.
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D2.Eco.15.3-5 Explain the effects of increasing economic interdependence on different groups within participating nations.
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Geography
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Geographic Representations: Spatial Views of the World
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D2.Geo.1.3-5 Construct maps and other graphic representations of both familiar and unfamiliar places.
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D2.Geo.2.3-5 Use maps, satellite images, photographs, and other representations to explain relationships between the locations of places and regions and their environmental characteristics.
- 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)
- Identify states of the West (5-C.1)
- Select states of the West (5-C.2)
- Name states of the West (5-C.3)
- Identify states of the Midwest (5-C.4)
- Select states of the Midwest (5-C.5)
- Name states of the Midwest (5-C.6)
- Identify states of the Southeast (5-C.7)
- Select states of the Southeast (5-C.8)
- Name states of the Southeast (5-C.9)
- Identify states of the Northeast (5-C.10)
- Select states of the Northeast (5-C.11)
- Name states of the Northeast (5-C.12)
- Identify the 50 states (5-C.13)
- Select the 50 states (5-C.14)
- Name the 50 states (5-C.15)
- Identify state capitals of the West (5-D.1)
- Name state capitals of the West (5-D.2)
- Identify state capitals of the Midwest (5-D.3)
- Name state capitals of the Midwest (5-D.4)
- Identify state capitals of the Southeast (5-D.5)
- Name state capitals of the Southeast (5-D.6)
- Identify state capitals of the Northeast (5-D.7)
- Name state capitals of the Northeast (5-D.8)
- Identify the 50 state capitals (5-D.9)
- Name the 50 state capitals (5-D.10)
- Cities of the West (5-E.1)
- Cities of the Midwest (5-E.2)
- Cities of the Southeast (5-E.3)
- Cities of the Northeast (5-E.4)
- Major U.S. cities (5-E.5)
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D2.Geo.3.3-5 Use maps of different scales to describe the locations of cultural and environmental characteristics.
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Human-Environment Interaction: Place, Regions, and Culture
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D2.Geo.4.3-5 Explain how culture influences the way people modify and adapt to their environments.
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D2.Geo.5.3-5 Explain how the cultural and environmental characteristics of places change over time.
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D2.Geo.6.3-5 Describe how environmental and cultural characteristics influence population distribution in specific places or regions.
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Human Population: Spatial Patterns and Movements
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D2.Geo.7.3-5 Explain how cultural and environmental characteristics affect the distribution and movement of people, goods, and ideas.
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D2.Geo.8.3-5 Explain how human settlements and movements relate to the locations and use of various natural resources.
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D2.Geo.9.3-5 Analyze the effects of catastrophic environmental and technological events on human settlements and migration.
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Global Interconnections: Changing Spatial Patterns
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D2.Geo.10.3-5 Explain why environmental characteristics vary among different world regions.
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D2.Geo.11.3-5 Describe how the spatial patterns of economic activities in a place change over time because of interactions with nearby and distant places.
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D2.Geo.12.3-5 Explain how natural and human-made catastrophic events in one place affect people living in other places.
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History
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Change, Continuity, and Context
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D2.His.1.3-5 Create and use a chronological sequence of related events to compare developments that happened at the same time.
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D2.His.2.3-5 Compare life in specific historical time periods to life today.
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D2.His.3.3-5 Generate questions about individuals and groups who have shaped significant historical changes and continuities.
- Antebellum Period: economies of the North and South (5-H.5)
- Antebellum Period: slavery and politics part I (5-H.7)
- Antebellum Period: slavery and politics part II (5-H.8)
- The Civil War: the beginning of the war (5-I.1)
- The Civil War: the First Battle of Bull Run to Gettysburg (5-I.2)
- The Civil War: war tactics and the home front (5-I.3)
- The Civil War: the end of the war (5-I.4)
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Perspectives
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D2.His.4.3-5 Explain why individuals and groups during the same historical period differed in their perspectives.
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D2.His.5.3-5 Explain connections among historical contexts and people's perspectives at the time.
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D2.His.6.3-5 Describe how people's perspectives shaped the historical sources they created.
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Historical Sources and Evidence
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D2.His.9.3-5 Summarize how different kinds of historical sources are used to explain events in the past.
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D2.His.10.3-5 Compare information provided by different historical sources about the past.
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D2.His.11.3-5 Infer the intended audience and purpose of a historical source from information within the source itself.
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D2.His.12.3-5 Generate questions about multiple historical sources and their relationships to particular historical events and developments.
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D2.His.13.3-5 Use information about a historical source, including the maker, date, place of origin, intended audience, and purpose to judge the extent to which the source is useful for studying a particular topic.
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Causation and Argumentation
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D2.His.14.3-5 Explain probable causes and effects of events and developments.
- The American Revolution: the Thirteen Colonies under British rule (5-G.1)
- The American Revolution: New British taxes (5-G.2)
- The American Revolution: the Boston Tea Party (5-G.3)
- The American Revolution: the rebellion begins (5-G.4)
- The American Revolution: preparing for war (5-G.5)
- The American Revolution: struggle for independence (5-G.6)
- The American Revolution: turning the tide of the war (5-G.7)
- The War of 1812: causes (5-H.3)
- The War of 1812: events and effects (5-H.4)
- Antebellum Period: slavery and politics part I (5-H.7)
- Antebellum Period: slavery and politics part II (5-H.8)
- The Civil War: the beginning of the war (5-I.1)
- The Civil War: the First Battle of Bull Run to Gettysburg (5-I.2)
- The Civil War: the end of the war (5-I.4)
- Reconstruction (5-I.5)
- World War I: the road to war (5-J.1)
- World War I: the war begins (5-J.2)
- 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)
- The Great Depression: part II (5-J.6)
- The New Deal (5-J.7)
- World War II: lead-up to war in Europe, Asia (5-J.8)
- World War II: global events (5-J.9)
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D2.His.16.3-5 Use evidence to develop a claim about the past.
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D2.His.17.3-5 Summarize the central claim in a secondary work of history.
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D3 Evaluating Sources and Using Evidence
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Gathering and Evaluating Sources
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D3.1.3-5 Gather relevant information from multiple sources while using the origin, structure, and context to guide the selection.
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D3.2.3-5 Use distinctions among fact and opinion to determine the credibility of multiple sources.
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Developing Claims and Using Evidence
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D3.3.3-5 Identify evidence that draws information from multiple sources in response to compelling questions.
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D3.4.3-5 Use evidence to develop claims in response to compelling questions.
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D4 Communicating Conclusions and Taking Informed Action
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Communicating Conclusions
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D4.1.3-5 Construct arguments using claims and evidence from multiple sources.
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D4.2.3-5 Construct explanations using reasoning, correct sequence, examples, and details with relevant information and data.
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D4.3.3-5 Present a summary of arguments and explanations to others outside the classroom using print and oral technologies (e.g., posters, essays, letters, debates, speeches, and reports) and digital technologies (e.g., Internet, social media, and digital documentary).
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Critiquing Conclusions
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D4.4.3-5 Critique arguments.
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D4.5.3-5 Critique explanations.
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Taking Informed Action
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D4.6.3-5 Draw on disciplinary concepts to explain the challenges people have faced and opportunities they have created, in addressing local, regional, and global problems at various times and places.
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D4.7.3-5 Explain different strategies and approaches students and others could take in working alone and together to address local, regional, and global problems, and predict possible results of their actions.
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D4.8.3-5 Use a range of deliberative and democratic procedures to make decisions about and act on civic problems in their classrooms and schools.
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