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Curriculum:
Fifth Grade Content Summaries
Language Arts & Reading - Georgia Performance
Standards –
www.georgiastandards.org
In
fifth grade, students expand and deepen the concepts, skills, and strategies
learned in earlier grades. Students comprehend texts from a variety of
genres and content areas, naturally making connections as they discover new
ideas and study subjects in more formal ways. Fifth graders use writing as
a daily tool for learning – writing for a variety of purposes and
audiences. They use reading and writing to learn about their world and
other cultures. Their vocabulary continues to increase through reading, word
study, discussion and content area explorations. Fifth graders also use
appropriate conversational skills in group interactions as they now assume
productive roles within cooperative groups. They can understand a problem
and determine an appropriate solution. They also complete more complex
assignments that require oral and written presentations.
Math - Quality Core Curriculum -
www.glc.k12.ga.us/qcc/homepg.asp
By
the end of grade five, students will add and subtract fractions and mixed
numbers, relate decimals to models using base ten blocks, relate fractions
to parts of a whole, compare and order fractions and decimals, and determine
a pair of numbers of the missing element of a pair when given a relation or
rule. They will determine lines of symmetry and geometric relations, make
models of geometric figures, and develop procedures to determine perimeter,
area, and volume of geometric figures. Students will solve multi-step
problems related to fifth grade objectives employing problem-solving
strategies. (For more information, go to www.glc.k12.ga.us/qcc/homepg.asp)
Science – Georgia Performance Standards
Fifth
grade students will investigate scientific concepts and begin to understand
that science is a process. Their scientific explanations will emphasize the
importance of gathering evidence and begin to use scientific principals,
models, and theories. By the end of fifth grade students will be able to
identify surface features of the Earth caused by constructive and
destructive processes and the role of technology and human intervention in
their control. Students will investigate the relationship between
electricity and magnetism and the difference between a chemical and physical
change. Using microscopes students will identify parts of a variety of
cells, understand the importance of microorganisms, how scientists classify
organisms, and how offspring can resemble parents in inherited traits and
learned behaviors.
Social Studies: The United States Through Modern
Times –
Quality Core Curriculum-
www.glc.k12.ga.us/qcc/homepg.asp
The focus of fifth grade continues the study of the later development of the
United States. The new curriculum incorporates the geographic, historical,
economic, civic, and cultural development of the United States through
modern times. The units include review of the Civil War and extending to
Reconstruction, immigration, further expansion of the west, WWI, Roaring
Twenties, Depression, WWII, Civil Rights Movement, Cold War, and
developments of the late 20th century. Appropriate map skills will be
included to teach the content.
Health
The fifth grade health curriculum is organized around eight major strands of
study. These strands include: alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs; disease
prevention; family living, human growth and development; mental health;
nutrition, personal health, and safety. |
