Social Studies Curriculum

Grade 5 - Unit 3

• Themes, Understandings And Overarching Essential Questions For This Unit
  
• Specific Essential Questions For This Unit
  
• By The End Of This Unit Students Should Know
  
• By The End Of This Unit Students Should Be Able To
  
• Enrichment Resources

Themes, Understandings And Overarching Essential Questions For This Unit

• Understanding: All people are similar.  All people are different.

• Essential Question: How does culture explain who we are?

• Understanding: All cultures and people have some things in common and some things that are different.

• Essential Question: How are we similar?  How are we different?

• Understanding: Decisions are based on needs, wants and consequences.

• Essential Question: How do our needs and wants affect our decisions?

• Understanding: Interactions between groups of people can benefit some, while harming others.

• Essential Question: How does trade influence relationships between cultures and nations help some and hurt others?

Specific Essential Questions For This Unit

• How have different ethnic, national and religious groups contributed to the cultural diversity of the regions and nations of the Western Hemisphere?

• How does life in America compare to life in Canada, Mexico and at least one other Latin America country?

• How has migration and immigration influenced life in the Western Hemisphere?

• How does interaction and interdependence influence life in the Western Hemisphere?

By The End Of This Unit Students Should Know

• Key ideas: Different groups of people in the Western Hemisphere have influenced one another by sharing their customs, traditions, ideas, beliefs and languages.

• Key Vocabulary: culture, cultural diversity, cultural exchange, ethnic group

• Key ideas: American life and culture is both similar and different to that of other nations in the Western Hemisphere. Migration and immigration to and within the Western Hemisphere has led to cultural diffusion. Interaction among groups of people and nations of the Western Hemisphere has benefited some and hindered others.

• Key Vocabulary: human rights, independence, interdependence, embargo, export, import, goods, resources, tariff, trade

By The End Of This Unit Students Should Be Able To

• Identify, compare and contrast the characteristics of different ethnic, national, and religious groups in the Western Hemisphere.

• Explain how life in America is similar and different to life in Canada, Mexico and at least one other Latin American country.

• Describe the positive and negative effects of a migration/immigration of the Western Hemisphere.

• Explain by specific example how ________________________ influences life in the Western Hemisphere.

Enrichment Resources