Text Box: Text Box: In Life Science, students learn to: · understand living systems from single cells to body systems classifying living things animal growth and heredity plants and their adaptations · understand systems and interactions in nature cycles in nature living things interact biomes protecting and preserving ecosystems In Earth/Space Science, students learn to: · identify processes that change the earth changes to earth’s surface rocks and minerals weather and climate exploring the ocean · identify the solar system and beyond earth, moon, and beyond the sun and other stars · recycle on an ongoing basis In Physical Science, students learn to: · investigate the building blocks of matter matter and its properties atoms and elements · investigate energy and motion forces motion forms of energy how people use energy Text Box: Hinsdale School District Grade 5 Curriculum 2004-2005 Text Box: Tel: (603) 336-5332 and on the web: www.hnhsd.org/~hes Text Box: Hélène L. Bickford, Curriculum Coordinator Donna Foster, Teacher Mary Wissman, Teacher For more information, please contact Hinsdale Elementary School 12 School Street Hinsdale, NH 03451 Text Box: Mathematics topics (continued) Text Box: Geometry · Identifying and drawing congruent figures and similar figures suing graph paper · Angles, lines, segments, points, rays, parallels, intersections, perpendicular, and polygons · Properties of common two-and three-dimensional figures · Point and line symmetry in polygons · Right, acute, obtuse, and straight angles · Division and separation of a shape into smaller shapes · Exploring transformational geometry through use of slides, flips, and turns · Spatial sense using manipulatives and technology Measurement · Using time to solve problems · Addition/subtraction of money to make change · Standard and metric measurements for length, width, height, temperature, time, weight, perimeter, area, volume, capacity · Formulas and estimations strategies for finding areas and volumes · Conversion of units within a measurement system and between systems · Measurement of length to the nearest eighth of an inch Data Analysis and Probability · Collecting, organizing, describing, representing, and interpreting data · Making predictions, inferences, decisions · Multiple representations to display data · Finding probabilities of events · Mean, median, and mode Algebra · Patterns using words and models · How change in length or width affects perimeter, area, and volume · Identification of properties and relationships related to prime, composite, rational numbers, multiples, factors, and exponents · Representing situation/number patterns using verbal rule and standard algebraic notation · Literal variables, expressions, equations, and inequalities · Tables/graphs to identify algebraic relationships · Points on a number line and grid · Properties: commutative, associative, distributive, inverse, identity · Equations to model word problems Change · Recognizing/extending sequences of number and geometric patterns · Describing/interpreting change from graphs/or tables of data · Finding averages, computing rates in familiar contexts Discrete Mathematics · Using counting techniques to determine number of outcomes for situations · Solving problems for finding efficient routes · Using chart forms to investigate relationships Text Box: Social Studies in Grade Five Text Box: Students learn to observe and discuss in learning about: · fairness · dealing with peer pressure and gossip · keeping out of a fight and resisting revenge · peopling the Western Hemisphere early cultures Aztec and Inca · Native Americans Southwest Woodlands Plains West · exploration Europe and Marco Polo expansion of trade new trade routes · contact and exploration Europeans to the Americas explorers and conquerors Spanish Empire · settlement of North America Northwest passage Roanoke and Jamestown Plymouth Colony · establishment of the English Colonies New England Middle Colonies Southern Colonies · colonial life why colonists cam way of life slavery in the colonies colonial economies colonial governments · European rivalries in North America New France expands French and Indian War · breaking ties with Great Britain colonial protest and revolution Declaration of Independence · American Revolution strengths and weaknesses from defeat to victory · the Constitution Articles of Confederation Constitutional Convention ratifying the Constitution electing a president · New nation Beyond the Appalachians Louisiana Purchase War of 1812 Industrial Revolution Andrew Jackson Moving West Texas and the War with Mexico · Slavery and Emancipation cotton and the spread of slavery speaking out against slavery heading toward war · Civil War and Reconstruction Nation divided Union moves to victory Reconstruction New Hampshire Study in Grade Five Not determined for this grade level Text Box: Science In Grade Five