Grade 5 Social Studies Kentucky standards Standards

History

Geography

Economics

Civics

Inquiry

Grade 5 (Colonization to Constitution)

Analyze the development and establishment of the U.S. federal government.

Analyze the structure of the U.S. government, including separation of power and its system of checks and balances.

Describe how the Constitution of the United States upholds popular sovereignty, ensures rule of law and establishes a federal system.

Describe the democratic principles of equality before the law, inalienable rights, consent of the governed and right to alter or abolish the government.

Explain the roles and responsibilities of a Kentucky citizen.

Evaluate whether various rules and laws promote the general welfare, using historical and contemporary examples.

Analyze responsibilities of U.S. citizens by explaining and demonstrating ways to show good citizenship.

Analyze the personal rights conferred by citizenship, and find examples of citizenship, using a variety of sources.

Analyze how incentives and opportunity costs impact decision making, using examples from history.

Analyze how incentives and opportunity costs impact decision making, using examples from Kentucky history.

Describe why the government collects taxes and what goods and services it provides society.

Explain how the United States developed into a market economy.

Explain the relationship between supply and demand.

Explain how specialization, comparative advantage and competition influence the production and exchange of goods and services in an interdependent economy.

Use a variety of maps, satellite images and other models to explain the relationships between the location of places and regions and their human and environmental characteristics.

Explain how cultural and environmental changes impact population distribution and influence how people modify and adapt to their environments.

Describe the traditions diverse cultural groups brought with them when they moved to and within the United States.

Analyze how and why cultural characteristics diffuse and blend with migration and settlement.

Compare the lives of Kentucky settlers to those living in other areas during the early years of the United States.

Analyze how cultural, economic and environmental factors encouraged and restricted the movement of people, ideas and goods to and within the United States.

Analyze the causes of the American Revolution and the effects individuals and groups had on the conflict.

Analyze the role religion played in early colonial society.

Describe the social and economic impact of the slave trade on diverse groups.

Describe the impact of fundamental documents on the development of the United States.

Analyze the impact innovation and human ingenuity had on the development of the United States from Colonization to Constitution.

Analyze the role conflict and collaboration played in the founding of the United States.

Describe the role of Kentucky settlers in the American Revolution.

Construct explanatory products, using reasoning, correct sequence, examples and details with relevant information and data, to convey the diverse perspectives that impacted the founding of the United States.

Construct arguments using claims and evidence from multiple sources on how a founding principle(s) is applicable today.

Explain different approaches people can take to address local, regional and global problems, using examples from U.S. history.

Use a range of deliberative and democratic procedures to identify strategies on how to address a current issue.

Ask compelling questions about the founding of the United States.

Generate supporting questions to answer compelling questions about the founding of the United States.

Identify the types of supporting questions each of the social studies disciplines uses to answer compelling and supporting questions.

Use evidence to develop claims in response to compelling and supporting questions.

Analyze primary and secondary sources on the same event or topic, noting key similarities and differences in the perspective they represent.

Integrate evidence that draws information from multiple sources to answer compelling and supporting questions.