Fifth Grade Homeschool Social Studies Curriculum
A well-designed Grade 5 Social Studies curriculum not only imparts factual knowledge but also cultivates your student’s
critical thinking skills. In Grade 5, students take an in-depth look at American History to better understand the
motivations, challenges, and successes of America’s past.
The Time4Learning Grade 5 Social Studies course covers:
- Pre-Colonial America
- 13 Colonies
- Revolutionary War
- The US Constitution
- Westward Expansion
What Makes the T4L Social Studies Curriculum Unique?
Time4Learning offers a dynamic learning experience designed to transform traditional Social Studies education. Students
engage with each topic through the lens of a compelling question. This compelling question challenges students to
analyze the people, events, and outcomes of American History as they form their own opinions.
The course offers a variety of content features to create an engaging learning experience from start to finish.
Grade 5 Social Studies content features our T4L families love:
- roadschooling family traveling across the US to important historical locations
- interactive timelines
- lessons include videos, literature, and primary and secondary source documents
- biography study and capstone project
- offline extension activities
Time4Learning’s Social Studies Lessons
Students will explore the history and values connected to American symbols.
Students will explore the tools they will use to organize their leaning and construct strong arguments.
Students will investigate the cooperation and conflict that existed among the American Indians and between the Indian nations and the new settlers. This will help them answer the chapter’s compelling question.
Students will explore the lifeways of the Sault Tribe of Chippewa in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, and the Timucua in Florida. This will help them answer the lesson’s supporting question.
Students will investigate early French and Spanish settlements and the interactions between the colonists and Indigenous peoples. This will help them answer the lesson’s supporting question.
Students will describe the cooperation and conflict that existed between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag and Nausets. They will also examine the conflicts that led to King Philip’s War. This will help them answer the lesson’s supporting question.
Students will review their KWL and use the evidence they’ve gathered to complete a final task related to the chapter’s compelling question. They will also answer multiple choice questions to check their understanding of the material covered within the chapter.
Students are given an opportunity to extend their learning by completing additional activities related to the topics of the chapter.
Students will be introduced to the three regions of the thirteen British colonies: Southern Colonies, New England Colonies, and Middle Colonies as they explore the economic and religious motivations of the colonists. This will help students answer the chapter’s compelling question.
Students will explore religious motivations for colonization in Maryland and the practices of large-scale agriculture and slavery throughout the South. This will help them answer the lesson’s supporting question.
Students will learn about religious motivations for colonization and explore primary sources related to the colonial shipping industry in the New England Colonies. This will help them answer the lesson’s supporting question.
Students will learn about the economic factors of living in large and diverse colonial cities. This will help them answer the lesson’s supporting question.
Students will review their KWL and use the evidence they’ve gathered to complete a final task related to the chapter’s compelling question. They will also answer multiple choice questions to check their understanding of the material covered within the chapter.
Students are given an opportunity to extend their learning by completing additional activities related to the topics of the chapter.
Students will compare the daily lives of men, women, and children who lived in the British colonies to life today. This will help them answer the chapter’s compelling question.
Students will explain everyday life in the British colonies. This will help them answer the lesson’s supporting question.
Students will identify different jobs done by colonial men and women. This will help them answer the lesson’s supporting question.
Students will describe the daily lives of colonial children, apprentices, and servants. This will help them answer the lesson’s supporting question.
Students will review their KWL and use the evidence they’ve gathered to complete a final task related to the chapter’s compelling question. They will also answer multiple choice questions to check their understanding of the material covered within the chapter.
Students are given an opportunity to extend their learning by completing additional activities related to the topics of the chapter.
Students will the roles of the colonists and the British Crown and government in ruling the colonies over time. This will help them answer the chapter’s compelling question.
Students will explore the relationship between the colonies and Great Britain just before the American Revolution. This will help them answer the lesson’s supporting question.
Students will learn about ways the colonists came together and organized against the policies they disagreed with. This will help them answer the lesson’s supporting question.
Students will learn how the conflict between the British and the colonists escalated. This will help them answer the lesson’s supporting question.
Students will review their KWL and use the evidence they’ve gathered to complete a final task related to the chapter’s compelling question. They will also answer multiple choice questions to check their understanding of the material covered within the chapter.
Students are given an opportunity to extend their learning by completing additional activities related to the topics of the chapter.
Students will explore events of the American Revolution as they consider the question “Can one event change history?”
Students will compare the perspectives of people in the colonies during the American Revolution.
Students will learn about the Battles of Saratoga and the allies who fought with the Americans and the British to summarize how the outcome of these battles was a turning point in the war.
Students will relate the outcome of the Battle of Yorktown to the establishment of a new nation.
Students will review their KWL and use the evidence they’ve gathered to complete a final task related to the chapter’s compelling question. They will also answer multiple choice questions to check their understanding of the material covered within the chapter.
Students are given an opportunity to extend their learning by completing additional activities related to the topics of the chapter.
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