Curriculum+Mapping


 * Year Mapping for 5th Grade **

Essential skills need to be known as Essential Concept. Essential skills are the "doing" part...What do they have to do in order to master the concepts we are teaching. Begin to identify the prerequisite skills students need before we teach the concept in fifth grade. "Steal" instructional big ideas from national standards, envision math (if we really have to...it will be good to use it for something)
 * First Nine Weeks **

**Essential Skills:** Students will be able to write a simple, compound, and complex sentence.
 * Reading Comprehension:** Main Idea (305); Facts & Details (2.02); Captions (2.07)
 * Writing:** Writer’s Workshop-Paragraph development (4.06); Expository Essay Structure (4.09); Writing Parts of Speech; Sentence Structure (5.01-5.05); Editing (5.06, 5.07, 4.08)

**Essential Skills:** (1) Students will identify how landforms are created and how forces (wind, water, ice, gravity) change them. (2) Students will learn how humans impact landforms.
 * Science:** Landforms-include meander, alluvia fan, oxbow lake. (Goal 2)

**Essential Skills:** Students will read and write numbers from hundred thousands to thousandths (1.01, 1.03, 2.02)
 * Math:** Place Value and Operation using Decimals; Metric Measurement

**Essential Skills:** (1) Students will be able to read a map using absolute and relative location. (2) Students will compare/contrast the physical environment.
 * Social Studies:** Overview (Unit 1; Unit 2: Lesson 1 & 2) (1.01, 1.02, 1,03); States/Regions (Unit 5: Lesson 3,4,5) (3.01, 4.01, 4.03); Native Americans (Unit 6: Lesson 3) (3.02)


 * Second Nine Weeks **


 * Reading Comprehension:** Fact & Opinion (2.07); Cause & Effect (2.08); Making Predictions (2.02); Author’s Purpose (2.04, 2.10)

**Essential Skills:** Students will be able to identify and use the expository essay structure. (Write 5 paragraphs)
 * Writing:** Writer’s Workshop-Paragraph development (4.05, 4.06); Expository Essay Structure (4.09); Examine Author’s craft; Word Choice (5.04); Editing

**Essential Skills:** (1) Students will identify the parts and definitions of the Water Cycle. (2) Students will know the “ingredients of weather” – How they change, how they measure. (3) Students will know and be able to identify air pressure, temperature, wind, clouds, precipitation, and high/low pressure (global patterns). **Essential Skills:** Students will know all the properties of a triangle, polygon, and angles.
 * Science/Math:** Weather and graphing (Goal 3)
 * Math:** Geometry; Algebra; Metric Measurement (Goal 3, Goal 5)

**Essential Skills:** (1) Students will know the cause and effect of the American Revolution. (2) Students will know the branches of government and their roles.
 * Social Studies:** Exploration (Unit 2: Lesson 3) (3.01, 3.02, 3.04, 3.05, 4.02); Colonization (Unit 5: Lesson 1,2) (3.01); American Revolution (Unit 2: Lesson 7,8) (4.04); U.S. Constitution & Bill of Rights (Unit 4: Lesson 1,2,3) (2.01, 2.02, 2.03, 2.05, 4.06)


 * Third Nine Weeks **


 * Reading Comprehension:** Inference & Drawing Conclusions (2.05); Figurative Language (2.04); Word in Context (1.01, 1.02, 1.05)


 * Writing:** Writer’s Workshop; Begin Persuasive writing; Make informed judgments about bias; propaganda; stereotyping; media techniques. (3.07)

**Essential Skills:** (1) Students will identify and analyze the functions of producers, consumers, and decomposers. (2) Students will be able to identify and describe the different biomes (6). (3) Students will be able to identify and create food chains and food webs. **Test 1:** Identify and analyze the functions of organisms in an ecosystem **Test 2:** Biomes-what are they and what’s in them. Evaluate change in environment: natural and human.
 * Science/Social Studies:** Ecosystems (Goal 1)/Tie in Economics (Unit 6: Lesson 1,2,3) (1.04, 5.01, 5.02, 5.03, 5.04, 5.06, 5.07)

**Essential Skills:** Students will be able to +/- fractions with like and unlike denominators.
 * Math:** Number & Operations using fractions (1.02, 1.03); Standard Measurement and Conversions between Metric and Standard (Goal 2)

**Essential Skills:** (1) Students will know different groups that came to American, why they came, and the impact of their culture on America. (2) Students will understand economic terms (wants vs. needs) and economic interdependence. (3) Students will investigate the history of technology and know that it is constantly changing.
 * Social Studies:** Central America, Caribbean, Mexico and Canada (Unit 6: Lesson 5) (1.04-1.07, 2.04, 2.05, 2.07, 2.08, 3.03, 3.06, 3.07, 4.07, 4.08, 5.07); Industrialization (Unit 6: Lesson 4) (2.06, 3.01, 5.05, 5.08, 6.01-6.06)


 * Fourth Nine Weeks **


 * Reading Comprehension:** Sequence (2.08); Compare & Contrast (3.02)


 * Writing:** Writer’s Workshop; Persuasive Writing; Poetry (4.07)

**Essential Skills:** (1) Students will identify and describe the impact of force and motion on objects. (2) Students will identify and describe simple machines (pulley, lever, wedge, wheel with an axle rod, inclined plane, screw). (3) Students will know the history of technology and how it is constantly changing.
 * Science/Social Studies:** Motion & Design (Goal 4)/Tie in Technology (Unit 7)

**Essential Skills:** (1) Students will be able to determine which graph to use. (Stem/leaf plot) (2) Students will be able to figure out the mode, median, range of given numbers.
 * Math:** Data Analysis and Probability (Goal 4)

**Essential Skills:** Students will learn the impact that the 20th Century Wars have had on America and other countries.
 * Social Studies:** Civil War (Unit 3) (4.05, 4.06); Overview of major U.S. Wars (War Project among all 5th grade classes) (3.01, 4.05)

Prepare for End-of-Grade test in Reading, Math, and Science