SS.5
Iowa Social Studies Standards · 5th Grade
5th Grade: Our Changing Nation
Grade5th Grade
SubjectSocial Studies
Levelstrand
Child standards (24)
- SS.5.1Develop and refine questions to actively shape and advance the investigation of the topic.
- SS.5.10Analyze the multiple economic, political, and social changes and divisions that brought about and affected the Civil War.
- SS.5.11Generate geographic representations to illustrate how cultural and physical characteristics of U.S. regions affected the Civil War.
- SS.5.12Examine legislative efforts, court decisions, and social movements intended to promote peace before, during and after the Civil War.
- SS.5.13Examine the impact that railroad transportation had on the movement of populations in the United States.
- SS.5.14Analyze the impacts of significant inventions of the Industrial Revolution.
- SS.5.15Identify how the Industrial Revolution changed living conditions for people in both rural areas and growing cities.
- SS.5.16Explain how the Industrial Revolution caused significant population shifts and analyze the effects of these shifts on cities and rural populations, labor, and society.
- SS.5.17Analyze key events, individuals, and campaigns that have been driven by a desire to create positive social change.
- SS.5.18Examine various laws and their impact on the equal rights of American citizens.
- SS.5.19Evaluate the progression of key events of the Civil Rights Movement.
- SS.5.2Interpret information about specific perspectives or beliefs from sources.
- SS.5.20Investigate how youth played a role in the Civil Rights Movement by engaging in various forms of activism in Iowa and around the nation.
- SS.5.21Describe reasons and considerations for financial borrowing.
- SS.5.22Compare different ways to save and invest money.
- SS.5.23Determine aspects of long-term financial goals.
- SS.5.24Describe different types of taxes, including how they are collected and the public benefits they fund.
- SS.5.3Make a claim about a topic and support it with evidence from one or more sources.
- SS.5.4Construct responses to questions using reasoning, examples, and relevant details.
- SS.5.5Identify the strategies people and/or groups use to advocate for a cause, and evaluate the civic virtues reflected by those strategies.
- SS.5.6Describe the origin, purpose, and impact of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
- SS.5.7Explain the processes by which laws are created, changed, limited, upheld, and removed.
- SS.5.8Describe how the Constitution ensures federalism, including examples of how power is shared between federal and state government.
- SS.5.9Explain the protections provided under the Bill of Rights and the responsibilities that accompany exercising these rights.
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