Grade 5 Social Studies Iowa standards Standards

Iowa History

Compare Perspectives

Analyze Change, Continuity, and Context

Create Geographic Representations

Create a Saving and Spending Plan

Assess the Global Economy

Evaluate the National Economy

Critique Exchange and Markets

Interpret Processes, Rules and Laws

Apply Civic Virtues and Democratic Principles

Examine Factors that Led to Continuity and Change on Human Development and Behavior

Taking Informed Action

Communicating and Critiquing Conclusions

Developing Claims and Using Evidence

Gathering and Evaluating Sources

Constructing Supporting Questions

Right and Responsibilities

Determine a way in which the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution impacted society.

Identify a process people can use to change laws/rules in the classroom, school, government, and/or society.

Identify how a law has changed over time.

Identify how goods and services are produced and distributed.

Determine the purpose of taxes and how the government uses taxes to provide goods and services.

Identify how countries benefit from trading.

Identify ways people can monitor how they save and spend money.

Using maps and other simple geographic models, create a route to a specific location.

Identify supporting questions that answer the compelling question in a familiar inquiry.

Identify the connection between historical developments that occurred within the same time period.

Identify how someone's perspective can affect their view of historical events.

Identify Iowa's role in civil rights history.

Determine how to tell if a source is credible.

Cite evidence from sources that support a response to a compelling question.

With teacher direction, construct responses to a compelling question.

Predict outcomes when taking action to address a problem.

Identify a strategy that one demographic group has used to ensure its rights.

Economics/Financial Literacy: Economic Systems

Economics/Financial Literacy: Financial and Career Goals

Economics/Financial Literacy: Saving, Spending, and Investing

Economics/Financial Literacy: Credit and Risk Management

Making Smart Financial Decisions (Financial Literacy)

History: Multiple Perspectives

History: Chronological Reasoning and Causation

Civics/Government: Processes, Rules and Laws

Civics/Government: Constitutional Principles and Civic Virtues

Civil Rights

Economics/Financial Literacy: Economic Decision Making

History: Historical Interpretation and Argumentation

History: Change, Continuity and Context

Geography: Human Movement and Patterns

Industrial Revolution

Civics/Government: Constitutional Principles and Civic Virtues

Geography: Places and Regions

History: Change, Continuity and Context

The Civil War

Civics/Government: Citizenship and Civic Rights and Responsibilities

Civics/Government: Role and Systems of Government

Civics/Government: Processes, Rules and Laws

Civics/Government: Constitutional Principles and Civic Virtues

The Constitution and Bill of Rights

Civic Engagement and Participation

Communicate Conclusions

Claims and Evidence

Gather, Interpret and Evaluate Sources

Develop Questions and Plan Inquires

Inquiry Standards

Develop and refine questions to actively shape and advance the investigation of the topic.

Analyze the multiple economic, political, and social changes and divisions that brought about and affected the Civil War.

Generate geographic representations to illustrate how cultural and physical characteristics of U.S. regions affected the Civil War.

Examine legislative efforts, court decisions, and social movements intended to promote peace before, during and after the Civil War.

Examine the impact that railroad transportation had on the movement of populations in the United States.

Analyze the impacts of significant inventions of the Industrial Revolution.

Identify how the Industrial Revolution changed living conditions for people in both rural areas and growing cities.

Explain how the Industrial Revolution caused significant population shifts and analyze the effects of these shifts on cities and rural populations, labor, and society.

Analyze key events, individuals, and campaigns that have been driven by a desire to create positive social change.

Examine various laws and their impact on the equal rights of American citizens.

Evaluate the progression of key events of the Civil Rights Movement.

Interpret information about specific perspectives or beliefs from sources.

Investigate how youth played a role in the Civil Rights Movement by engaging in various forms of activism in Iowa and around the nation.

Describe reasons and considerations for financial borrowing

Compare different ways to save and invest money.

Determine aspects of long-term financial goals.

Describe different types of taxes, including how they are collected and the public benefits they fund.

Make a claim about a topic and support it with evidence from one or more sources.

Construct responses to questions using reasoning, examples, and relevant details.

Identify the strategies people and/or groups use to advocate for a cause, and evaluate the civic virtues reflected by those strategies.

Describe the origin, purpose, and impact of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Explain the processes by which laws are created, changed, limited, upheld, and removed.

Describe how the Constitution ensures federalism, including examples of how power is shared between federal and state government.

Explain the protections provided under the Bill of Rights and the responsibilities that accompany exercising these rights.