Grade Level:
5th
Six Weeks:
4th
Overarching Concept:
Balance and Stability
Organizing Idea:
It's a Balancing Act
What is Energy?
Energy Converters:
Releasing Potential Energy
Static and Current Electricity,
Converters and Insulators
Balloons on the Wall
Electricity: Diagramming the Circuit
Exploring Circuits: The
Importance of Energy
Electrical Circuits
Creating and Controlling
Current Electricity
The History of Magnetism
Magnetism Around Us
Electromagnetism: Electricity
and Magnetism Working Together
Electricity and Magnetism:
The Magic of Magnets
Electricity and Magnetism:
The Generation of Electricity
Understanding Sound: Vibrations
What are Pitch and Frequency?
The Movement of Heat
Forces Move Things
Friction: Opposing Movement
Westward Expansion:
A Glorious Story
In The Beginning the
West Lay in the East...
Independence and
the Louisiana Purchase
Expansion
The Lewis and Clark Expedition
Part Two: The Oregon Trail
The Westward Movement
and the Oregon Trail
The War of 1812
Intro to Industrial Revolution
Factory Work
Steam Power
The U.S. in the Mid-1800's
Northern Cities: Free Labor
Southern Plantations:
Slave Labor
The Missouri Compromise
The Compromise of 1850
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Confederate States of America
A Virginia Family
April 12, The First Shots Fired
The War Begins
Reconstruction
Internet Sites Chart
PowerPoint Presentations Chart
Link to the Scott Foresman Web site
Elementary Curriculum
Instructional Resources
