Grade 5
Grade 5 History/Social Studies
8 units and 31 learning lessons. This is the outline a Grade 5 student works through in History/Social Studies — the lessons themselves are taught inside OHM School, adapted to how each child is doing.
About this outline: the listed lessons are part of the available learning path. A lesson appearing here does not mean its standards mapping or assessment evidence has completed educator review. See the evidence and review methodology.
Unit 1 of 8
Pre-Columbian Peoples of North America
4 lessons
Lessons
- 1Peoples of the Desert Southwest
- 2Peoples of the Pacific Northwest
- 3Nations of the Great Plains
- 4Woodland Peoples East of the Mississippi
Unit 2 of 8
Exploration of the Americas
3 lessons
Lessons
- 1Why Europeans Explored
- 2Explorers and Their Routes
- 3Meeting of Cultures
Unit 3 of 8
Cooperation and Conflict
3 lessons
Lessons
- 1Cooperation Between Nations and Settlers
- 2Conflict Over Land
- 3Effects on American Indian Nations
Unit 4 of 8
The Thirteen Colonies
5 lessons
Lessons
- 1Founding the Colonies
- 2Regional Differences: New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies
- 3Colonial Government
- 4Religion and Society in the Colonies
- 5Slavery in the Colonies
Unit 5 of 8
The American Revolution
5 lessons
Lessons
- 1Causes of the Revolution
- 2Protests and Early Conflict
- 3The Declaration of Independence
- 4The War and Its Outcome
- 5People of the Revolution
Unit 6 of 8
The Constitution
4 lessons
Lessons
- 1Why the Constitution Was Written
- 2The Constitutional Convention
- 3Three Branches of Government
- 4The Bill of Rights
Unit 7 of 8
Westward Growth
4 lessons
Lessons
- 1Expansion and the Frontier
- 2Pioneers and Trails
- 3Immigration in the Early Nation
- 4Impact on Native Nations
Unit 8 of 8
States and Capitals
3 lessons
Lessons
- 1States of the West and Southwest
- 2States of the Midwest
- 3States of the Northeast and Southeast
How it is taught
The whole subject, in the order a child meets it.
- What is covered8 units and 31 lessons, every one of them in the book above: this is the whole of History/Social Studies in Grade 5, not a sample.
- Taught in orderA lesson unlocks when the one before it is mastered, and review is scheduled from what the child has actually shown rather than on a fixed timetable.
- Kept currentThese titles are read from the live curriculum, so what is in this book is what a Grade 5 student would work through today.
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