Grade 5- Resources

Fifth Grade

5.1 Identify major geographic areas of the world and specifically North America.

1. Map the seven continents and five oceans.

2. Identify and locate the main mountain ranges, rivers, and other key bodies of water.

3. Locate on a map and discuss the pre-Columbian civilizations in North and South
America.

Hispanic Exploration in America– World Map, 1507 – Primary Source Set

5.2 Investigate the people and ways of life of North America and the Caribbean Basin prior to the Columbian Era.

1. Identify the major Native American tribes of North America and the Caribbean Basin
at the beginning of the Columbian Era.

2. Map the territories of the major Native American Tribes of North America and the
Caribbean Basin at the beginning of the Columbian Era.

3. Determine how tribes in different regions used their environment to obtain, food,
clothing, and shelter.

4. Differentiate the lives and cultures of Native American tribes by region or territory.

Hispanic Exploration in America – Primary Source Set

5.3 Analyze the motivations and consequences of the exploration of North America.

1. Map the European countries of Spain, Portugal, Great Britain, and France and their
initial settlements in North America and Caribbean Basin with respect to trade routes
and mitigation.

2. Identify significant European explorers (e.g., Ferdinand Magellan, Hernando de Soto,
Rene’ Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle, Francis Drake, Walter Raleigh, John Cabot,
Christopher Columbus, Samuel de Champlain, etc.), their motivation to and through
North America and the Caribbean Basin.

3. Explain the causes and effects of the Columbian Exchange.

The Virginia Company (BB) Assessment

Signing of the Mayflower Compact (BB) Assessment

Slave Quarters (BB) Assessment

Jamestown – Primary Source Set

5.5 Trace the development of the revolutionary
movement in North America.

1. Identify the causes and consequences of the French and Indian War.

2. Explain the reasons for the American Revolution.

3. Examine the actions taken by the British and colonists and explain how each led to
the Revolutionary War (e.g., British Stamp Act, Intolerable Acts, Boston Massacre,
Tea Act, etc.).

Portrait of an Iroquois Leader (BB) Assessment

Seven Years War (BB) Assessment

Political Cartoons and Public Debates– Franklin, Benjamin. ‘Join or Die’ – Primary Source Set

5.6 Explain major events of the American Revolution.

1. Describe the roles of major contributors (e.g., Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams, Paul
Revere, Patrick Henry, Thomas Paine, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Haym
Salomon, etc.).

2. Identify key battles of the American Revolution and their outcomes (e.g., Lexington
and Concord, Bunker Hill, Saratoga, Cowpens, Yorktown, etc.).

3. Discuss the contributions of African Americans, women, and ordinary citizens in
general to the American Revolution.

4. Examine efforts to mobilize support for the American Revolution by the Minutemen,
Committees of Correspondence, First Continental Congress, Sons of Liberty, and the
Second Continental Congress.

5. Explain the colonial victory of the American Revolution.

6. Summarize the effects of the Treaty of Paris of 1783 on the development of the
United States.

Declaration of Independence (BB) Assessment

Washington Crosses the Delaware (BB) Assessment

Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln: Three Great Presidents- Washington at Valley Forge – Primary Source Set

Alexander Hamilton – Primary Source Set

The Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark Expedition– Primary Source Set

The First Thanksgiving (BB) Assessment

Thanksgiving – Primary Source Set

Symbols of the United States – Primary Source Set

The Case of the Clock (BB) Assessment

African American Workers (BB) Assessment