Assessment & Standards:
Grade 5 Social Studies Program
Overview:
The Grade 5 Social Studies Program
The program is an integration of the NYS Social Studies and
NAD Scocial Studies Curricula. All NAD elements are italicized to differentiate them from NYS elements.
The grade 5 social studies core curriculum:
- stresses
geographic, economic, and social/cultural understandings related
to the Western Hemisphere—the United States, New York
State, Canada, and nations in Latin America. Bermuda
is included as a key nation of study throughout the program.
Effort is also made
to include the students' nations of origins.
- builds on and
reinforces historical and political content about the United
States included in the
grade 4 social studies program.
- uses contemporary
case studies rather than a chronological approach, with the content
understandings
guiding selection of specific
case studies and factual information.
- focuses on
contemporary examples, whenever appropriate, to help students
learn the grade five content understandings.
- correlates
SDA church history with the history of the Western Hemisphere
- stresses
students' personal reponsibility for self and others
In Grade 5 the emphasis is on:
Writing Within the Grade 5 Social Studies Program
Writing is an
integral and intrinsic part of the Grade 5 Social Studies program.
All instruction in content, concepts and skills
will lead to a writing exercise. Expository and reflective
writing will be formally taught in manageable stages using various
techniques
from the Institute for Excellence in Writing program (see www.writing-edu.com)
and The Windward Teacher Training Institute (see www.windwardny.org).
By teaching the process of research and providing very specific
research and writing techniques the aim is to produce students
who are proficient in research, critical thinking and expository
writing.
NAD Strands & NYS
Content Understandings Correlations
Grade
5 Content Understanding (what the students will understand
through the content) is organized according to 5 concepts/themes.
NAD education terminology refer to these as strands.
The Grade 5 OPS Correlations are grouped in the
following broad categories:
Content Organization with Essential and Focus Questions
In designing instructional units essential
and focus questions create the framework for which students will
explore the historical, geographical, political, economic and
ethical issues. It is from these questions that:
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case studies will be generated (for the USA, Canada, Bermuda,
and Latin America)
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essay questions are constructed
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research topics constructed
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connections are made to other subject
disciplines
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and assessment is guided (both formative and summative)
It is important to note also that this instructional method
almost always guarantees that the textbook in NOT followed in
a chapter-by-chapter basis. The textbook neither determines the
sequence nor the scope of instruction for the social studies
program; it is just one of many resources available for learning
and instruction.Out
of the OPS Correlations instructional units are constructed which
then provide the basis for daily leasson plans. These
are organized according to the teacher's professional judgement
and can be viewed in OPS Virtual Classroom.
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