Michigan State Standards for Social Studies: Grade 5

MI.I.1. Historical Perspective: All students will sequence chronologically the following eras of American history and key events within these eras in order to examine relationships and to explain cause and effect: The Meeting of Three Worlds (beginnings to 1620); Colonization and Settlement (1585-1763); Revolution and the New Nation (1754-1815); Expansion and Reform (1801-1861); and Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877); The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900); The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930); The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945); Post War United States (1945-1970); and Contemporary United States (1968-present). (Time and Chronology).

I.1.1. Measure chronological time by decades and centuries. 4
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I.1.2. Place major events in the development of their local community and the state of Michigan in chronological order. 3
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I.1.3. Place major events in the early history of the United States in chronological order. 22
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MI.I.2. Historical Perspective: All students will understand narratives about major eras of American and world history by identifying the people involved, describing the setting, and sequencing the events. (Comprehending the Past)

I.2.1. Summarize the sequence of key events in stories describing life from the past in their local community, the state of Michigan and other parts of the United States. 5
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I.2.2. Use narratives and graphic data to compare the past of their local community, the state of Michigan and other parts of the United States with present day life in those places. 3
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I.2.3. Recount the lives and characters of a variety of individuals from the past representing their local community, the state of Michigan and other parts of the United States. 5
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I.2.4. Identify and explain how individuals in history demonstrated good character and personal virtue. 17
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MI.I.3. Historical Perspective: All students will reconstruct the past by comparing interpretations written by others from a variety of perspectives and creating narratives from evidence. (Analyzing and Interpreting the Past)

I.3.1. Use primary sources to reconstruct past events in their local community. 44
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I.3.2. Interpret conflicting accounts of events in both Michigan and United States history and analyze the viewpoints of the authors. 3
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I.3.3. Compose simple narratives of events from the history of the state of Michigan and the United States. 17
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MI.I.4. Historical Perspective: All students will evaluate key decisions made at critical turning points in history by assessing their implications and long-term consequences. (Judging Decisions from the Past)

I.4.1. Identify problems from the past that divided their local community, the state of Michigan, and the United States and analyze the Interests and values of those involved. 10
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I.4.2. Select decisions made to solve past problems and evaluate those decisions in terms of ethical considerations, the interests of those affected by the decisions, and the short-and long-term consequences in those decisions. 19
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MI.II.1. Geographic Perspective: All students will describe, compare, and explain the locations and characteristics of places, cultures, and settlements. (People, Places and Cultures)

II.1.1. Locate and describe cultures and compare the similarities and differences among the roles of women, men, and families. 20
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II.1.2. Locate and describe diverse kinds of communities and explain the reasons for their characteristics and locations. 20
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II.1.3. Locate and describe the major places, cultures, and communities of the nation and compare their characteristics. 20
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MI.II.2. Geographic Perspective: All students will describe, compare, and explain the locations and characteristics of ecosystems, resources, human adaptation, environmental impact, and the interrelationships among them. (Human/Environment Interaction)

II.2.1. Explain basic ecosystem concepts and processes. 2
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II.2.2. Describe the location, use, and importance of different kinds of resources and explain how they are created and the consequences of their use. 17
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II.2.3. Describe the major physical patterns, ecosystems, resources, and land uses of the state, region, and country and explain the processes that created them. 14
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II.2.4. Explain how various people and cultures have adapted to and modified the environment. 42
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MI.II.3. Geographic Perspective: All students will describe, compare, and explain the locations and characteristics of economic activities, trade, political activities, migration, information flow, and the interrelationships among them. (Location, Movement and Connections)

II.3.1. Describe major kinds of economic activity and explain the factors influencing their location. 25
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II.3.2. Describe the causes, consequences, routes and movement of major migration to the United States. 1
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II.3.3. Explain how transportation and communication link people and communities. 2
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II.3.4. Describe some of the major movements of goods, people, jobs and information within Michigan and the United States and explain the reasons for the movements. 12
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MI.II.4. Geographic Perspective: All students will describe and compare characteristics of ecosystems, states, regions, countries, major world regions, and patterns and explain the processes that created them. (Regions, Patterns and Processes)

II.4.1. Draw sketch maps of the community, region, and nation. 25
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II.4.2. Describe places, cultures, and communities in the United States and compare them with those in other regions and countries. 20
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II.4.3. Describe the geography of Michigan at major times in its history and explain the reasons for its change. 3
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II.4.4. Describe the physical, economic, and cultural geography of contemporary Michigan and its causes, advantages, and disadvantages. 3
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II.4.5. Describe the Great Lakes ecosystem, and explain physical and human processes that act upon them. 3
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II.4.6. Describe the geography of major United States regions, compare the regions, and explain the processes that created them.

MI.II.5. Geographic Perspective: All students will describe and explain the causes, consequences, and geographic context of major global issues and events. (Global Issues and Events)

II.5.1. Locate major world events and explain how they impact people and the environment.

MI.III.1. Civic Perspective: All students will identify the purposes of national, state, and local governments in the United States, describe how citizens organize government to accomplish their purposes, and assess their effectiveness. (Purposes of Government)

III.1.1. Distinguish among local, state, and national government in the United States and describe the roles of government institutions at all three levels. 19
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III.1.2. Give examples of authority and the use of power without authority. 10
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III.1.3. Give reasons for limiting the power of government. 62
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MI.III.2. Civic Perspective: All students will explain the meaning and origin of the ideas, including the core democratic values expressed in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and other foundational documents of the United States. (Ideals of American Democracy)

III.2.1. Interpret the development and summarize the main points in the Declaration of Independence. 12
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III.2.2. Interpret the meaning of specific rights guaranteed by the Constitution including religious liberty, free expression, privacy, property, due process of law and equal protection of the law. 10
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III.2.3. Explain responsibilities citizens have to uphold constitutional rights. 4
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MI.III.3. Civic Perspective: All students will describe the political and legal processes created to make decisions, seek consensus and resolve conflicts in a free society. (Democracy in Action)

III.3.1. Describe what state and federal courts are expected to do. 7
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III.3.2. Describe issues that arise over constitutional rights. 6
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MI.III.4. Civic Perspective: All students will explain how American governmental institutions, at the local, state, and federal levels, provide for the limitation and sharing of power and how the nation's political system provides for the exercise of power. (American Government and Politics)

III.4.1. Distinguish among making, enforcing, and interpreting laws. 6
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III.4.2. Explain how law is used to manage conflict in American society. 8
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III.4.3. Explain the basic organization of the local, state, and federal governments. 8
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III.4.4. Describe how citizens participate in election campaigns. 10
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MI.III.5. Civic Perspective: All students will understand how the world is organized politically, the formation of American foreign policy and the roles the United States plays in the international arena. (American Government and World Affairs)

III.5.1. Explain various ways that nations of the world interact with each other.

III.5.2. Describe events in other countries that have affected Americans and, conversely, events within the United States that have affected other countries.

MI.IV.1. Economic Perspective: All students will describe and demonstrate how the economic forces of scarcity and choice affect the management of personal financial resources, shape consumer decisions regarding the purchase, use, and disposal of goods and services and affect the economic well-being of individuals and society. (Individual and Household Choices)

IV.1.1. Explain why people must face scarcity when making economic decisions. 2
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IV.1.2. Identify the opportunity costs in personal decision making situations. 11
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IV.1.3. Use a decision making model to explain a personal choice. 11
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IV.1.4. Analyze the costs, benefits, and alternatives to using consumer credit. 11
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MI.IV.2. Economic Perspective: All students will explain and demonstrate how businesses confront scarcity and choice when organizing, producing, and using resources, and when supplying the marketplace. (Business Choices)

IV.2.1. Distinguish between natural resources, human capital, and capital equipment in the production of a good or service. 9
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IV.2.2. Distinguish among individual ownership, partnership, and corporation. 4
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IV.2.3. Examine the historical and contemporary role a major industry has played in the state of Michigan and the United States. 3
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MI.IV.3. Economic Perspective: All students will describe how government decisions on taxation, spending, public goods, and regulation impact what is produced, how it is produced, and who receives the benefits of production. (Role of Government)

IV.3.1. Use a decision making model to explain a choice involving a public good or service. 11
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IV.3.2. Distinguish between the economic roles of local, state, and federal governments and cite examples of each. 8
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IV.3.3. Use a local example to assess the effectiveness of the government at providing public goods or resolving an economic dispute. 3
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MI.IV.4. Economic Perspective: All students will explain how a free market economic system works, as well as other economic systems, to coordinate and facilitate the exchange, production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. (Economic Systems)

IV.4.1. Explain how prices are determined in a market economy and how they serve as a means of allocating resources. 4
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IV.4.2. Describe how they act as a producer and a consumer. 10
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IV.4.3. Analyze how Michigan's location has impacted its economic development. 3
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MI.IV.5. Economic Perspective: All students will describe how trade generates economic development and interdependence and analyze the resulting challenges and benefits for individuals, producers, and government. (Trade)

IV.5.1. Trace the national origin of common household items and the trade flows which brought them to the United States. 4
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IV.5.2. Describe benefits of international trade to consumers and producers.

IV.5.3. Describe how businesses are involved in trade as producers, distributors, importers, and exporters. 4
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MI.V.1. Inquiry: All students will acquire information from books, maps, newspapers, data sets and other sources, organize and present the information in maps, graphs, charts and timelines, interpret the meaning and significance of information, and use a variety of electronic technologies to assist in accessing and managing information. (Information Processing)

V.1.1. Locate information about local, state and national communities using a variety of traditional sources, electronic technologies, and direct observations. 7
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V.1.2. Organize social science information to make maps, graphs and tables. 3
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V.1.3. Interpret social science information about local, state, and national communities from maps, graphs, and charts. 13
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MI.V.2. Inquiry: All students will conduct investigations by formulating a clear statement of a question, gathering and organizing information from a variety of sources, analyzing and interpreting information, formulating and testing hypotheses, reporting results both orally and in writing, and making use of appropriate technology. (Conducting Investigations)

V.2.1. Pose a social science question about Michigan or the United States. 3
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V.2.2. Gather and analyze information using appropriate information technologies to answer the question posed. 4
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V.2.3. Construct an answer to the question posed and support their answer with evidence. 4
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V.2.4. Report the result of their investigation including the procedures followed. 4
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MI.VI.1. Public Discourse and Decision Making: All students will state an issue clearly as a question of public policy, trace the origins of the issue, analyze various perspectives people bring to the issue and evaluate possible ways to resolve the issue. (Identifying and Analyzing Issues)

VI.1.1. Pose local, state, and national policy issues as questions. 5
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VI.1.2. Explain how a particular public issue became a problem and why people disagree about it. 5
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VI.1.3. Evaluate possible resolutions of a public issue. 5
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MI.VI.2. Public Discourse and Decision Making: All students will engage their peers in constructive conversation about matters of public concern by clarifying issues, considering opposing views, applying democratic values, anticipating consequences, and working toward making decisions. (Group Discussion)

VI.2.1. Engage each other in conversations which attempt to clarify and resolve issues pertaining to local, state, and national policy. 5
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MI.VI.3. Public Discourse and Decision Making: All students will compose coherent written essays that express a position on a public issue and justify the position with reasoned arguments. (Persuasive Writing) 9
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VI.3.1. Compose a short essay expressing a decision on a local, state, or national policy issue. 9
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MI.VII.1. Citizen Involvement: All students will consider the effects of an individual's actions on other people, how one acts in accordance with the rule of law, and how one acts in a virtuous and ethically responsible way as a member of society. (Responsible Personal Conduct)

VII.1.1. Report how their behavior has been guided by concern for the law. 6
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VII.1.2. Engage in activities intended to contribute to solving a local, state or national problem they have studied. 4
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