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Fifth Grade Objectives
SCIENCE (E.C.A.)
Ecosystems
· Categorize organisms in an ecosystem: producers, consumers, or decomposers.
· Understand that organisms in an ecosystem have dependent and interdependent relationships
· Identify factors that affect growth and reproduction of organisms.
· Understand that natural and human-made events can disturb an ecosystem.
· Create a model ecosystem to learn about the complex relationships that exist on earth.
Food Chemistry
· Recognize that foods contain starches, sugars, fats and/or proteins.
· Know that carbohydrates, fats, proteins, water, vitamins, and minerals are nutrients.
· Define glucose as a form of sugar.
· Identify and use methods to test foods for starch (iodine), glucose (test strips), fats
(brown paper), and protein (Coomassie strips).
Floating and Sinking
· Understand that several variables affect the buoyancy of objects in water.
· Know and observe the amount of water an object displaces is directly related to the object’s volume.
HISTORY
· U.S. Geography.
· Identifies the landforms across the United States.
· Describe the climate and vegetation regions in the United States.
· Explore the relationships between geography and culture.
· Collect, analyze, and interpret information from maps.
· Identify borders on a map.
· Describe a variety of regions in the United States
· Describe types of settlements and patterns of land use by ancient Indians.
· Understand the effect of environment on Indian life.
· Describe early North American cultures.
· Recognize the world's cultures became connected during the 1400's.
· Know that the Portuguese wanted to find a water route to Asia for trading purposes.
· Analyze the changes in the United States brought about by the Industrial Revolution.
· Freedom
· Analyze events leading up to the American Civil War.
· Describe the legislative acts that dealt with slavery, such as the Missouri Compromise and
the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
· Describe the purpose of the Underground Railroad and how it worked.
· Identify major battles of the Civil War and their results.
MATHEMATICS (McDougal Littell)
· Compare whole, decimal, and fractional numbers.
· Compute problems using the four operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
· Estimate solutions by rounding to nearest whole number.
· Understand and compute decimal problems using the four operations.
· Recognize equivalent decimals, fractions, and percents.
· Measure angles using terms right, acute, or obtuse.
· Identify factors, common multiples, and prime numbers.
· Draw and read bar and line graphs.
· Compute problems using ratios.
· Using the four operations compute fraction with like or unlike denominators.
LANGUAGE ARTS (A Beka)
· Know and use phonetic patterns.
· Know and apply spelling generalizations.
· Know meaning of prefixes and suffixes.
· Know and use frequently misspelled words in writing.
· Master the use of subjects and predicates in simple and compound forms.
· Recognize and use verbs, verb phrases, and principal parts of verbs. · Recognize and use common nouns, proper nouns, compound and plural nouns.
· Recognize and use pronouns in the subjective, objective, and possessive cases.
· Recognize and use adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.
· Understand and use commas correctly.
· Learn and use apostrophes correctly.
· Learn and use colons, hyphens, and semicolons.
· Practice diagramming the eight parts of speech.
· Form and recognize simple and compound sentences.
READING (Open Court)
· Apply decoding skills and context clues if there are unknown words.
· Browse text for generalizations.
· Use the following strategies to clarify meanings: re-read, self-correct,
reads-on to determine meaning of difficult passages.
· Identify and discuss story structure: beginning, middle, and end.
· Identify characters, setting, plot, and theme.
· Understand headings, captions, and charts.
· Draw conclusions and make inferences.
· Distinguish fact from opinion.
· Recognize the following forms of fiction: novels, short stories, fantasy, historical fiction,
realistic fiction, mysteries, and science fiction.
· Analyze the following literary devices: exaggeration, foreshadowing, humor, dialect, and theme.
· Recognize the following forms of nonfiction: biographies, autobiographies,
history, science, geography, and Biblical history.
BIBLE (Positive Action)
· Understand the history and stories of the Old Testament. · Recognize the Bible was written by many men as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.
· Believe that when God makes a covenant or promise, one can trust Him to keep the promise.
· Recognize that God's primary goal in our lives is to conform us to the likeness of His Son.
· Know that the Old Testament sacrifice was a picture of the sacrifice Jesus would become
for us on the cross.
· Recognize God is concerned about the details of our lives.
· Understand God has given us great promises and blessings, but sometimes we do not
receive them because of rebellion in our lives.
· Know that God is patient and merciful but will eventually discipline His children for lack
of obedience.
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