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5th Grade Georgia Standards of Excellence for Social Studies
Fifth Grade Teacher Notes
America at the Turn of the Century
America’s Involvement in WW I
Banking and the Stock Market Crash of 1929
Cattle Trails
Civic/Government Understandings
The Civil Rights Movement
Communism and the Cold War
Cultural Developments and Individual Contributions of the 1920’s
Geographic Understandings
The Great Depression and the New Deal
Modern America
Technology in the Second Half of the Last Century
World War II
Fifth Grade Curriculum Map
Sample Lesson
Sample UnitConnecting Themes
Sample Unit Citizenship, Business, and the Government Source SetSample Lesson
Sample Unit Bigger, Better, Faster: The Changing Nation Source Set
Sample Unit War and Prosperity Source SetSocial Studies Lab World War I: How do we remember war? PPT
Sample Unit The Great Depression and the New Deal Source Set Stock Market Simulation
Sample Unit Another World War Source SetSample Lesson
Sample Unit War Turns ColdSource SetSample Lesson
Face-to-Face/Distance/HybridInvestigating the Cold War PPT Teacher Resource Packet
Face-to-Face/Distance/HybridConflict between Ukraine and Russia in 2022
Sample Unit Civil Rights Address Civil WrongsSource Set
Sample Unit United States from 1975 to the Digital AgeSource Set
Sample UnitBuilding a Budget
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