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Subject Area: Social Studies Grade Level: Fifth Grade
New York State Content Standards New York State Skills Standards New York State Performance Indicators
Assessments (formal/informal
including state assessments)
Standard 2: World History: Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to
demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and
turning points in world history and examine the broad sweep of history from a
variety of perspectives.
• consider the sources of historic documents, • Scott Foresman assessments
narratives, or artifacts and evaluate their • Scott Foresman activities
reliability
• Teacher-created assessments
• understand how different experiences, beliefs, • Teacher-created activities and
values, traditions, and motives cause individuals assessments
and groups to interpret historic events and • 5th Grade State Social Studies Exam
issues from different perspectives
(November)
• compare and contrast different interpretations • Homework
of key events and issues in New York State and • Small/whole-group observations
United States history and explain reasons for • Teacher-created conference forms
these different accounts
• Teacher-created projects with
• describe historic events through the eyes and accompanying rubric
experiences of those who were there. (Taken
from National Standards for History for Grades
K-4)
Leadership Prep Bedford Stuyvesant Charter School
Exhibit 9D-76