Social Studies Curriculum

Grade 5 - Unit 2

• Themes, Understandings And Overarching Essential Questions For This Unit
  
• Specific Essential Questions For This Unit
  
• By The End Of This Unit Students Should Know
  
• By The End Of This Unit Students Should Be Able To
  
• Enrichment Resources

Themes, Understandings And Overarching Essential Questions For This Unit

• Understanding: Where we live affectshow we live.

• Essential Question: How does where someone lives affect how they live?

Specific Essential Questions For This Unit

• How do the geographic characteristics of the Western Hemisphere affect where people choose to live, how they earn a living, and their everyday life?

By The End Of This Unit Students Should Know

• Key ideas: The physical characteristics of the Western Hemisphere are varied. The geographic factors of the Western Hemisphere affect where people live, how they earn a living and their everyday life.

• Key Vocabulary: adapt, archipelago, bay, border, climate, coast, communication degree, delta, desert, environment, forest, geography, grasslands, gulf, hemisphere, island, isthimus, lake, latitude, longitude, legend/key, map, marsh, migrate/immigration, mountain, ocean peninsula, plains, plateau, prime meridian, equator, rain forest, resource, river, scale, strait, symbols, tropics, tundra, valley, vegitation

• Key Places: Western Hemisphere, North/Central/South/Latin America, Canada, United States, Mexico, Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Southern Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Mississippi River, Amazon River/Rainforest, Panama Canal, Rocky Mountains, Andes Mountains

By The End Of This Unit Students Should Be Able To

• Identify the major geographic features of the Western Hemisphere on a map.

• Explain by example how humans and the physical geography of the Western Hemisphere have impacted one another.

• Evaluate the positive and negative effects of human interaction with the natural world in the Western Hemisphere.

Enrichment Resources