Unit Outline

Grade: Five

Unit of Study: Social Studies – Ancient Egypt

Time line: 15 lessons (40 minutes each)

Curriculum Expectations:

Social Studies

Show how innovations made by the various early civilizations have influenced the modern world
Identify major early civilizations and locate them on a world map
Describe the physical features and climate of two or more regions where early civilizations developed
Explain how two or more early civilizations shapes and used the environment to meet their physical needs for food, homes, clothing and health
Outline how social needs were met in two or more early civilizations
Identify important values and beliefs in two or more early civilizations and describe how they affected daily life
Identify some specific and technological advances made by two or more early civilizations
Identify and compare the distinguishing features of two or more early civilizations
Use graphic organizers and graphs to sort information and make connections
Make connections between some elements of modern life and similar elements from early civilizations

Language

Recognize a variety of text forms, text features, and stylistic elements and demonstrate understanding of how they help communicate meaning
Read a variety of texts from diverse cultures, including literary texts, graphic texts and informational texts
Identify a variety of reading comprehension strategies and use them appropriately before, during and after reading to understand texts
Use stated and implied ideas in texts to make inferences and construct meaning
Extend understanding of texts by connecting the ideas in them to their own knowledge, experience, and insights, to other familiar texts, and to the world around them
Make judgments and draw conclusions about the ideas and information in texts and cite stated or implied evidence from the text to support their views
Sort and classify ideas and information for their writing in a variety of ways
Produce resided, draft pieces of writing to meet identified criteria based on the expectations related to content, organization, style and use of conventions
Use a range of appropriate elements of effective presentation in the finished product, including print, script, and different fonts, graphics and layout

Art

Produce two- and three- dimensional works of art that communicate a range of ideas for specific purposes and specific audiences
Select the most appropriate tools, materials and techniques for a particular purpose, and use them correctly
Produce two- and three- dimensional works of art that communicate a range of thoughts, feelings, and ideas for specific purposes, and to specific audiences (using electronic media, design an eye-catching title page for their notebook that clearly communicated the topic for a unit of study.

Math

Select and justify the most appropriate standard unit to measure length, height, width and distance, and to measure the perimeter of various polygons