Fifth Grade:

Our 5th-grade students will integrate a combination of the Savvas My World textbooks for Social Studies, along with hands-on projects aligned with the Massachusetts Social Studies Curriculum Frameworks for each grade.

What is project-based learning? Project-based learning involves students learning how to take the content they are learning about in the classroom and applying it to projects where they can design, develop, and construct solutions to problems and present informed ideas about events in history and modern times. Project-based learning is a way to bring students’ curiosity beyond the classroom so they can see the connections between historical events and modern times. It also teaches students how to think beyond the textbook and to become creative thinkers and problem-solvers.

Below is more detailed description of what our 5th graders will be covering;

Fifth Grade: Fifth graders will spend Quarters 1 and 2 examining the Age of Exploration including early explorers, the life of early settlers, and the impact of settlements and exploration on the New World, including how they impacted the lives of Native Americans living on the North American continent. Students will also study the life of Native Americans. Quarter 3 will be spent studying the acts and events leading up to the American Revolution as well as the creation of the new government after the war. In Quarter 4, students will examine the growing nation, the Civil War and Reconstruction.