From the Michigan Content Expectations:
The 5th-grade social studies content expectations mark a departure from the social studies approaches taken in previous grades. Building upon the geography, civics and government, and economics concepts of the United States mastered in fourth grade and historical inquiry from earlier grades, the fifth grade expectations begin a more discipline-centered approach concentrating on the early history of the United States. Students begin their study of American history with American Indian peoples before the arrival of European explorers and conclude with the adoption of the Bill of Rights in 1791. Although the content expectations are organized by historical era, they build upon students’ understandings of the other social studies disciplines from earlier grades and require students to apply these concepts within the context of American history.
UMCDC 5th MiOpen Book Chapter 5 Section 2, 3 and 4 "Were the Colonists Being Governed & Taxed Fairly?" (20-21)
UMCDC 5th MiOpen Book Chapter 5 Section 5 and 6 "How Does Boston Become Known as the "Shot Heard Round the World"?"
UMCDC 5th MiOpen Book Chapter 5 "The Road to the American Revolution" (20-21)
UMCDC 5th MiOpen Book Chapter 6 Section 1 and 2 "Were the Colonists Justified to Rebel?" (20-21)
UMCDC 5th MiOpen Book Chapter 6 Section 4 "How does a Small Group of Revolutionaries Persuade a LARGE Group of Colonists?" (20-21)
UMCDC 5th MiOpen Book Chapter 6 Section 5 and 6 "How did the Patriots Stand Up Against the Greatest Army in the World?" (20-21)
UMCDC 5th MiOpen Book Chapter 6 Section 7 and 8 "How will the Continental Colonists' Army continue to March On?" (20-21)
UMCDC 5th MiOpen Book Chapter 6 Section 9 "How did the Treaty of Paris Change America?" (20-21)
UMCDC 5th MiOpen Book Chapter 6 Section 9 "What caused the Final Battles to move to the South?"(20-21)
UMCDC 5th MiOpen Book Chapter 6 "The American Revolution" (20-21)
UMCDC 5th MiOpen Book Chapter 7 Section 2 "Articles of Confederation" (20-21)
UMCDC 5th MiOpen Book Chapter 7 Section 2 "Federalism and the Constitution" (20-21)
UMCDC 5th MiOpen Book Chapter 7 Section 3 "The Constitutional Convention" (20-21)
UMCDC 5th MiOpen Book Chapter 7 Section 4 "Ratification" (20-21)
UMCDC 5th MiOpen Book Chapter 7 Section 5 "Bill of Rights" (20-21)
UMCDC 5th MiOpen Book Chapter 7 Section 6 MAISA MC3 SS "Exploring a Public Issue" (20-21)
UMCDC 5th SS "How did a shift in power lead to rising tensions in the colonies?" (20-21)
UMCDC 5th SS"How did the geographical, financial, and religious status of the colonists affect where and how they lived?" (20-21)
The last core strand of social studies is the one we will be focusing on mostly this year...history! Your studies will be focusing mainly on American history. It is often said that history is written by the victors. Historians must look at everything they can to come to conclusions about what happened in the past. Historians become writers, teachers, public speakers, and public servants in many ways. The following section explains the work of historians and details about their studies.
Have you ever wondered about the first people who lived on our continent? How did they get here? It is believed by many historians that thousands of years ago, hunters following herds of animals like woolly mammoths and bison migrated (or moved) to the Americas on foot from Asia. This belief assumes that they crossed over a frozen land bridge caused by the Ice Age.