2020 Colorado Academic Standards Online
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clear Content Area: Social Studies // Grade Level: Fifth Grade // Standard Category: 2. Geography
Social Studies
Fifth Grade, Standard 2. Geography
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Prepared Graduates:
- 3. Apply geographic representations and perspectives to analyze human movement, spatial patterns, systems, and the connections and relationships among them.
Grade Level Expectation:
1. Use geographic tools and sources to research and answer questions about United States geography.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Answer questions about regions of the United States using various types of maps.
- Use geographic tools to identify, locate, and describe places and regions in the United States and suggest reasons for their location.
- Describe the influence of accessible resources on the development of local and regional communities throughout the United States.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills:
- Investigate geographic resources to form hypotheses, make observations, and draw conclusions about communities in the United States. (Entrepreneurial Skills: Inquiry/Analysis)
Inquiry Questions:
- How can various types of maps and other geographic tools communicate geographic information incorrectly?
- How do you think differently about data when it is displayed spatially?
- How and why do we label places?
- How have places and regions in the United States been influenced by the physical geography of North America over time?
Nature and Skills of Geography:
- Spatial thinkers use geographic tools to evaluate data in order to answer geographic questions.
- Spatial thinkers locate places and identify resources, physical features, regions, and populations using geographic tools.
- Spatial thinkers use geographic technologies to enhance the ability to locate and analyze maps to answer questions. For example: historians use maps to help re-create settings of historical events, and individuals use maps to learn about different geographic areas.
Disciplinary, Information, and Media Literacy:
- Analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting important similarities and differences in the point of view they represent.
- Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.
- Conduct short research projects that use several sources to build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.
- Report on a topic or text or present an opinion, sequencing ideas logically and using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes; speak clearly at an understandable pace.
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Prepared Graduates:
- 4. Examine the characteristics of places and regions, and the changing nature among geographic and human interactions.
Grade Level Expectation:
2. Causes and consequences of movement.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Identify variables associated with discovery, exploration, and migration.
- Explain migration, trade, and cultural patterns that result from interactions among people, groups, and cultures.
- Describe and analyze how specific physical and political features influenced historical events, movements, and adaptation to the environment.
- Analyze how cooperation and conflict among people contribute to political, economic, and social divisions in the United States.
- Give examples of the influence of geography on the history of the United States.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills:
- Consider purpose, formality of context and audience, and distinct cultural norms when planning the content, mode, delivery, and expression of analysis of historical events and movements. (Civic/Interpersonal Skills: Communication)
- Identify and explain multiple perspectives when exploring ideas about conflict in the United States. (Civic/Interpersonal Skills: Global/Cultural Awareness)
Inquiry Questions:
- What human and physical characteristics have motivated, prevented, or impeded migration and immigration over time?
- How can migration and immigration be represented geographically?
- How has the movement of people and their belongings affected the environment both positively and negatively?
Nature and Skills of Geography:
- Geographic thinkers study patterns of human movement.
- Geographic thinkers understand how technology has influenced movement to, colonization of, and the settlement of North America.
- Geographic thinkers examine how the migration of individuals affects society including economic and environmental impacts.
Disciplinary, Information, and Media Literacy:
- Draw evidence from geographic tools or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
- Determine the kinds of sources that will be helpful in answering compelling and supporting questions, taking into consideration the different opinions people have about how to answer the questions.
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