Standard Course of Study :: Social Studies

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What has happened in the White House?: Students explore historic events that have occurred at or directly affected the White House. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts and Social Studies); Provided by: National Endowment for the Humanities

What Happens in the White House? A Timeline: Students create a History of the White House timeline featuring historic events researched in the previous lesson. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Social Studies); Provided by: National Endowment for the Humanities

What happens in the White House?: Students view images of former Presidents living and working within the White House. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts, Information Skills, and Social Studies); Provided by: National Endowment for the Humanities

A suitable job for a woman: In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, students identify the model for the character Amelia Martin by discovering information about four women: Abbie Burgess, Louisa May Alcott, Ida Lewis, and Clara Barton. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Visual Arts Education, English Language Arts, and Social Studies); Provided by: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

The Preamble to the Constitution: How do you make a more perfect union?: Students investigate the purposes of the U.S. Constitution and study fundamental values and principles as they are expressed in the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts, Information Skills, and Social Studies); Provided by: National Endowment for the Humanities

Landmark: The United States Capitol Building: This is set of three lesson plans exploring what makes the U.S. Capitol symbolically important. Presented with a variety of archival documents, students answer that question by working in small groups to uncover and share the Capitol's story. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Visual Arts Education, English Language Arts, and Social Studies); Provided by: National Endowment for the Humanities

How and why has the White House changed?: Students explore the changes to the early designs of the White House. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Visual Arts Education, Information Skills, and Social Studies); Provided by: National Endowment for the Humanities

Balancing three branches at once: Our system of checks and balances: Students use primary source documents to investigate how the three branches of the American government can check each other. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts and Social Studies); Provided by: National Endowment for the Humanities