Social Studies Secular Homeschool Curriculum Skills List | Fifth Grade

Social Studies concepts create the themes for some of the units within Fifth Grade Complete. The activities and discussion questions stimulate higher-level thinking and encourage understanding of the concepts.

• Learn about historical figures.
• Learn about famous explorers.
• Recognize and learn about the Great Lakes, midwestern, and southwestern states.
• Identify capital cities and postal abbreviations of states.
• Memorize the fifty states in alphabetical order.
• Learn about a historic event: the Oklahoma City bombing.
• Learn about United States history: World War II.
• Learn about World War II leaders.
• Recall facts about the American Revolution and World War I.
• Learn about Henry Ford and his contributions to the automobile industry.
• Understand and apply how maps and globes are used to display regions of the world.
• Locate the fifty states on a United States map.
• Locate continents and oceans on a world map.
• Make a physical map, a raised-relief map, and a topographic map.
• Use maps and photos to identify and locate major landmarks or major physical features of the United States.
• Understand that each person is unique.
• Understand family relationships and how individuals within a family work together for the good of the family.
• Identify occupations within a community.
• Recall the meaning of economic vocabulary.
• Apply basic economic principles.
• Recognize a need and a want.
• Understand how people make economic choices and stay within a budget.
• Identify and analyze the opportunity cost of economic choices.
• Differentiate between goods and services.
• Classify materials as natural resources, capital resources, or human resources.
• Understand that entrepreneurs are individuals who are willing to take risks, to develop new products, and start new businesses.
• Analyze a cost and benefits chart.
• Calculate the profit on goods.
• Understand the law of supply and the law of demand.
• Analyze a supply and demand curve.
• Understand economic concepts of surplus and shortage.
• Make a business plan and budget.
• Understand how cultural contributions of various groups have shaped the history of the world.
• Compare and contrast pioneer farming lifestyle to today.
• Learn the characteristics of a rural community.
• Compare and contrast communities.
• Learn about Native Americans.
• Recognize and learn about other continents.
• Understand how the environment affects cultural groups.
• Understand how individuals within a community work together for the good of the community.
• Characterize qualities of good citizenship.
• Place events in chronological order on a timeline.
• Understand the mechanization of agriculture.
• Make a chart of farming equipment development.
• Develop an understanding of basic fire safety procedures.
• Learn about the history of slavery and the 13th Amendment.