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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 3: Geography (Key Idea 1):
Students will analyze important historic,
geographic, economic, and
environmental questions and issues.
These six elements include: the world in
spatial terms, places and regions,
physical settings (including natural
resources), human systems, environment
and society, and the use of geography.
(Adapted from The National Geography
Standards, 1994: Geography for Life)
Standard 3: Geography (Key Idea 2):
Students will develop and application of
the skills of asking and answering
geographic questions; analyzing theories
of geography; and acquiring, organizing,
and analyzing geographic information.
(Adapted from: The National
Geography Standards, 1994: Geography
for Life)
• study about how people live, work, and utilize • Scott Foresman assessments
natural resources
• Scott Foresman activities
• draw maps and diagrams that serve as • Teacher-created assessments
representations of places, physical features, and • Teacher-created activities and
objects
assessments
• locate places within the local community, • 5th Grade State Social Studies Exam
State, and nation; locate the Earth’s continents (November)
in relation to each other and to principal • Homework
parallels and meridians. (Adapted from • Small/whole-group observations
National Geography Standards, 1994) • Teacher-created conference forms
• identify and compare the physical, human, • Teacher-created projects with
and cultural characteristics of different regions accompanying rubric
and people (Adapted from National Geography
Standards, 1994)
• investigate how people depend on and modify
the physical environment.
• formulate geographic questions and define • Scott Foresman assessments
geographic issues and problems
• Scott Foresman activities
• use a number of research skills (e.g., computer • Teacher-created assessments
databases, periodicals, census reports, maps, • Teacher-created activities and
standard reference works, interviews, surveys) assessments
to locate and gather geographical information • 5th Grade State Social Studies Exam
about issues and problems (Adapted from (November)
National Geography Standards, 1994) • Homework
• present geographic information in a variety of • Small/whole-group observations
formats, including maps, tables, graphs, charts, • Teacher-created conference forms
diagrams, and computer-generated models • Teacher-created projects with
• interpret geographic information by accompanying rubric
synthesizing data and developing conclusions
and generalizations about geographic issues and
problems.
Leadership Prep Bedford Stuyvesant Charter School
Exhibit 9D-80