5th Grade  / 4th Six Weeks

Overarching Concept: Balance and Stability

Organizing Idea: It's a Balancing Act

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Unit Contents

This Organizing Idea is written to explore the concept of balance and stability as it affects energy resources and various events in the history of the United States from 1800 to the 1870s. Students will explore factors that affected the balance and stability of a young nation in the areas of government, economics, and territorial expansion.

Activities

Butter Battle Book Lesson - by Susan Jackson

Investigating Ingredients:  Cereal - by Cheryl Gee
Judgment & decisions - research

Lewis & Clark Expedition
Internet scavenger hunt to find facts about the two explorers

Science Bibliography Project Lesson- by Mary Elam
To connect scientists with their experiments and concepts. To find and identify information needed to list in a bibliography. To find and research concepts while recording bibliographic information and creating MLA entries.
Student Bibliography Worksheet: Finding the Connection
Science Bibliography Words
Science Bibliography Keyword
Science Bibliography Worksheets

Search for Sources -  by Kim Murff

Six Flags Reading Program - by Betty Koonce
Six Flags Reading Program Spanish version - by Bilingual teacher
Introduces students to this Reading Program.

The U.S. in the 1800s - by Mary Elam
To research and investigate important dates and events of the 1800s within the United States.
U.S. Student List of Events of the 1800s
U.S. in the 1800s Teacher Ed.
U.S. in the 1800s Time Line

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