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Social Studies — Grade 5
Goal 3, Objective 3.05
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- Mini totem poles
- Students will create mini totem poles using paper towel tubes and Crayola Model Magic clay. Totem poles of Northwest Coast Indian tribes will be explored.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies)
- By Mary Ann Athens.
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- What was Columbus thinking?
- In this lesson, students read excerpts from Columbus's letters and journals, as well as recent considerations of his achievements. Students reflect on the motivations behind Columbus's explorations, his reactions to what he found and the consequences, intended... (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Social Studies)
- Provided by: EDSITEment
- What they left behind: Early multi-national influences in the United States
- The lessons in this unit are designed to help your students make connections between European voyages of discovery, colonial spheres of influence, and various aspects of American culture. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Social Studies)
- Provided by: EDSITEment
- Weeping camel: What is a ritual?
- In this Xpeditions lesson, students identify characteristics of traditional and modern rituals found in different cultures. Through reading articles and watching videos of several rituals, students identify some of their characteristics. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Social Studies)
- Provided by: National Geographic
- On the Oregon Trail
- In this lesson, students work with primary documents and latter-day photographs to recapture the experience of traveling on the Oregon Trail. The goals of this lesson are: to learn about the pioneer experience on the Oregon Trail to... (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- Provided by: National Endowment for the Humanities
