Grade 5
Art
- paints and draws near and far space with expressive color
- draws perspectives from a variety of cultural views
- explores the different ways in which clay can be used to create form
- works with paper to create three-dimensional constructions
Communication Arts and Reading
- recognizes and uses acceptable pronunciation, voice control, and gestures in reading and reciting stories or poetry, or in delivering other oral presentation
- reads different types of literature from a variety of cultures for pleasure and information: plays, biographies, poetry, or in delivering other oral presentations
- reads different types of literature from a variety of cultures for pleasure and information: plays, biographies, poetry, fiction, and expository material
- recognizes bias and propaganda in newspapers, television, radio, magazines, and advertising
- generates ideas for writing from class projects or trips; personal experiences; literature, art, films or television; or discussions with friends and family
- uses editing marks to correct spelling, punctuation, and grammar when proofreading
Health and Physical Education
- demonstrates respect and support for peers
- researches the history of a game or leisure activity
- relates learning to other subject areas and daily family life
- understands that excessive drinking of alcohol may result in nutritional deficiencies and that tobacco disturbs the normal functions of the body's system
- understands that marijuana is an illegal drug with harmful effects
Mathematics
- uses circle graphs, bar graphs, an line graphs to organize data
- explains and uses basic ideas about sets (e.g. subset, intersection, union)
- uses exponents
- designs and conducts measurement projects (e.g. weather tracking throughout the world)
- adds, subtracts, multiplies, and divides with decimal and fraction numerals
Science
- understands the characteristics, organization, and needs of living things
- understands the concept of microbiology, including: bacteria, viruses, immunizations, antibiotics
- understands the varied systems of the body, including the skeletal, nervous, circulatory, endocrine, excretory, and reproductive
Social Studies
- understands the major geographical features of the Earth
- recognizes that the same geographical characteristics may be studied using different countries and regions
- values and appreciates the diversity of cultures of the people living in the Western Hemisphere
- understands the concept that the Western Hemisphere has such problems as overpopulation, pollution, race relations, poverty, famine, control of disease, political, and territorial disputes
- understands that social studies vocabulary helps him or her know more about the world: continent, boundary, mountain range, ocean, equator, hemisphere, North Pole, South Pole, global, currents, resources, land masses, latitude, longitude, region
Computer Education
- recognizes ethically correct and incorrect uses of computers
- uses software to reinforce traditional subjects, an develop basic, problem-exploration, and critical-thinking skills
- uses word processing and simple desktop publishing programs to develop language and writing skills
- uses a modem to develop telecommunications and research skills
Library Skills
- adds atlases, gazetteers, geographic and biographical dictionaries, thesauruses, and almanacs to the list of reference materials used
- learns how to compile multimedia bibliographies
- develops an interest in realistic fiction which explores the diversity of different racial and cultural groups
- reads independently in all areas of literature