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Social Studies Homeschool Curriculum Skills List | Secular 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.
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