5.3
Utah Social Studies Standards · 5th Grade
FIFTH GRADE STRAND 3: UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AND CITIZENSHIP
Grade5th Grade
SubjectSocial Studies
Levelstrand
Child standards (6)
- 5.3.1Use examples from the Constitution to investigate and explain the development, general purpose, and significant foundational principles of the United States government (a compound constitutional republic), as well as earlier documents and philosophies used to help develop the Constitution (for example, the Magna Carta, Mayflower Compact, Articles of Confederation, Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy).
- 5.3.2Apply the ideals found in the Preamble of the United States Constitution to historic and current events and issues.
- 5.3.3Explain why the Founders established a compound constitutional republic with three branches, and cite historic and current examples of checks and balances.
- 5.3.4Explain the significance of the Bill of Rights, and identify the impact of one of these amendments in history, a current event, and/or your daily life.
- 5.3.5Investigate how constitutional amendments are passed, and provide examples of how amendments to the Constitution have extended rights to groups originally denied protection under the Constitution (for example, women, enslaved people, immigrants, Black Americans, Native Americans).
- 5.3.6Describe the civic duties members of American society have today (for example, voting, holding public office, jury duty).