Fifth Grade

• Convert improper fractions to mixed numbers and vice versa

• Determine ratio and percent

• Convert common fractions to decimals and percents

• Identify and determine diameter and radius of circles

• Classify and construct triangles, quadrilaterals and angles

• Use scale and scale drawings

• Measure and construct angles

• Use formulas to find volume in cubic units

• Explore relationships between perimeter and area

• Perform experiments or simulations to determine probabilities, including whether a game is fair or unfair, and if outcomes are equally likely

• Make predictions that are based on experimental or theoretical probabilities

• Discover the uses of probability in the real world

• Identify organizational patterns

• Compare and contrast

• Argument and support

• Identify a series of related cause and effect relationships
• Make and defend inferences and conclusions
• Distinguish between first person and third person point of view
• Evaluate quality of reading material and its content based on author's purpose
• Adjust reading rate to match purpose

• Skim, scan

• Phonics and Word Identification

• Identify imagery

• Sensor language and exaggeration

• Multi-meaning words

• Spell 1000 most frequently used words
• Accessing Information/Reference
• Skills/Study Skills

• Take notes from lectures, reading, view and interviewing

• Use a study technique such as PQRST (Preview, Question, Read, Study, Test)

• Further use of library skills

language and literature

• Language

• Write biographies, letters to the editor, narratives, technical descriptions and directions, problem solutions, scripts, poetry and sequels

• Prepare table of contents and bibliographies

• se independent clauses, dependent clauses and complements to clarify ideas

• Use appropriate forms of positive, comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs

• Literature

• Character, plot and theme development

• Identification of literary forms

• Creative writing

• Cross curricular stories

• Identify characters

• Make inferences about character motives and feelings

• Monthly book report

• Find main idea

science

• Learn the basic scientific laws through literature and hands-on experiment   Use technological tools such as calculators, computers and scientific instruments in scientific investigations

• Trace the origin of food for all animals to plants

• Illustrate that matter is recycled into new organisms as living things die and decay

• Identify ways humans change physically and cognitively as they mature

• Contrast the roles of human body systems in helping the organism function as a complete unit

• Identify the cell as the building block of complex organisms

• Identify organisms consisting of one cell which carries on all the basic life functions

• Recognize that the patterns of stars remain the same, but their locations appear to change relative to the Earth's revolution

• Predict how objects on or near the Earth are affected by the Earth's gravity

• Recognize soil as a combination of weathered rocks and organic matter

• Contrast how rocks and minerals vary in their composition

• Describe how the speed of sound waves changes with the nature of the medium

• Identify light as a form of energy and recognize its properties

• Describe how sound and light waves are detected by sense organs

• Describe the relationship between energy, forces and motion

social studies

• Map and Globe Skills

• Identify and distinguish between cultural and natural features

• Use symbols and keys to acquire information from resource, product, historic, physical, political and economic maps

• Information Processing Skills

• Identify issues and/or problems

• Identify social studies reference resources to use for specific purpose

• Distinguish between fact and opinion as pertaining to current events

• Analyze information from two or more sources for agreements, contractions, facts and opinions

• Draw conclusions and make generalizations

• Interpret political cartoons

• The Age of Expansion

• Explain how inventions and new technological discoveries impacted daily life throughout late 19th and early 20th century

• Describe the effects Westward Movement had on the U.S. as a nation and how these effects are evident today

• An Emerging Nation

• Explain how the U.S. emerged as world power and the role of the U.S. as a world leader today

• Explain why government regulations and reforms may have been needed in the early 20th century - are they needed today

• Determine how urbanization changed the lifestyles of the American people in the early 20th century and in our contemporary world

• Global Conflicts

• Explain the role the United States played in World War I and how these war experiences affected political, economic, military and lifestyle changes

• Cite examples of how the lifestyles of the people of the U.S. changed during the Jazz Age

• Describe how the economic decline contributed to the Great Depression and its effects on the U.S. politically,economically and socially

• Explain the role the U.S. played in World War II and how these war experiences affected political, economic, military and lifestyle changes

• Decades of Change

• Explain how the civil Rights Movements from World War II to the present affected the development of the U.S. politically, economically and socially

• Examine the major cultural changes from the 1950's to the present and how they affected the political, social, environmental and economic development of U.S.

• Describe how the U.S. was affected politically, economically and culturally by involvement in the Cold War

• Analyze the political, economic and social involvement of the U.S. in global conflicts from 1950 to the present

• Looking Towards the Future

• Analyze balancing demands of technology and economics to provide healthy environment for the future

• Prepare to be productive citizens in the 21st century

music

• Demonstrate understanding of relationship of shortest unit of sound to longer units of sound using standard notation
• Sing developmentally appropriate songs with increasing accuracy in pitch using an expanded range
• Sing in harmony by performing rounds, echo songs, partner songs and/or simple ostinati
• Demonstrate an aural awareness of the tonal center
• Perform simple harmonic parts vocally or instrumentally
• Recognize the sounds of selected folk, electronic and orchestral instruments
• Identify string, woodwind, brass, percussion, keyboard and electronic
• Distinguish between the sounds of bands and orchestras
• Identify the names of the line and space notes of the treble staff

VISUAL artS

• Create sculpture that is closed and solid, or open and hollow, or a combination
• Use several tints and shades of one color to produce a monochromatic composition
• Identify properties of texture on 2-D and 3-D surfaces
• Recognize how light and shadow reveal textures
• Identify means of expressing unity in a composition
• Describe, analyze and judge artwork (student and/or master) based on specified criteria
• Explore various art careers such as architect, graphic designer, painter, photographer and video artist
• Recognize that artwork from different cultures may have the same subject or theme

HEALTH/PHYSICAL EDUCATION

• Understand how the healthy body combats disease and illness
• Identify ways to manage stress and adjust to change
• Identify the parts and major functions of the endocrine/immune system
• Identify factors affecting fitness levels
• Discuss why each health-related fitness component is important to health
• Count exercise heart rate and adjust activity levels
• Identify four of the five health-related fitness components