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K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

Information Skills — Grade 5

Goal 3: The learner will RELATE ideas and information to life experiences.

Objective 3.05. Describe how information and ideas are influenced by prior knowledge, personal experience, and social, cultural, political, economic, and historical events.

Additional related resources

We’re in the process of aligning our content for students to the Standard Course of Study. As we do, you’ll find it here.

General resources

Aligned lesson plans

Resources on the web

Lewis and Clark: Facing challenges—real and imagined
In this lesson from Xpeditions, students will consider how they perceive geographic features and obstacles, and how the Lewis and Clark expedition members might have done so. The mental maps of expedition members could not prepare them for what lay ahead;... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 3 and 5 Information Skills and Social Studies)
Provided by: Xpeditions
Lewis and Clark: Same place, different perspectives
In this lesson, students will write about several encounters between the Lewis and Clark expedition and various Native American groups from the viewpoint of an expedition member or one of the Native Americans. Students can see the large-format film Lewis... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 3 and 5 Social Studies)
Provided by: Xpeditions