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Fifth Grade
Content Accordion
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Social Studies Overview
Social Studies Units Include:
- Unit 1: The First Americans
- Unit 2: Age of Exploration
- Unit 3: Settlements Take Root
- Unit 4: Life in the Colonies
- Unit 5: The American Revolution
- Unit 6: A New Nation
- Unit 7: The Young Nation Grows
- Unit 8: Moving West
- Unit 9: Civil War and Reconstruction
- Unit 10: Expanding West and Overseas
- Unit 11: Industry and Immigration
- Unit 12: Struggle for Reform
- Unit 13: Good Times and Hardships
- Unit 14: World War II
- Unit 15: The Cold War
- Unit 16: America Changes
- Unit 17: Americans Today
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Math Overview
The program provides opportunities for students to value mathematics, to become confident in their ability to do mathematics, and stresses the importance of experiences that relate mathematics to the real world. The curriculum is based on the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) and is designed to build basic understandings in number, operations, and quantitative reasoning; patterns, relationships, and algebraic thinking; geometry and spatial reasoning; measurement; and probability and statistics. Problem solving, language and communication, connections within and outside mathematics and formal and informal reasoning underlie all content areas.
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Language Arts Overview
The language arts program provides balanced instruction in reading and writing. This program ties phonics, spelling, and language skills to connected texts in reading and writing. This integrated language arts curriculum connects all aspects of phonics/word study, vocabulary, reading comprehension, grammar, spelling, and writing in a meaningful context. The scope and sequence provides for instruction that meets the various needs of individual students and is designed to promote acceleration in the language arts.
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Science Overview
Fifth grade units include:
Processes and Physical Properties of Matter
Organisms and Environments
Force, Motion, and Energy
Weather and Water
Space
Earth's Changing Surface and Resources
Physical Science
More Organisms and Environments
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