Academic Standards
Academic Standards include both content standards and practice standards. How are they different? Content standards describe the knowledge that a student must be able to recall and understand; practice standards provide an opportunity for students to demonstrate the skill using what they know. Simply put, content is what you know while practice is what can you do.
Practice Standards These standards focus on the way that students will be asked to think about, use, and show the mastery of academic material. Many of these skills were previously viewed as "level 4" behaviors but are now the expectation for all students. By mastering these practice standards, upon graduation, students will be prepared to be successful in today's competitive job market.
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1. Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
2. Collaboration & Leadership 3. Flexibility in Thinking 4. Initiative 5. Effective Oral & Written Communication Skills 6. Researching & Analyzing Information 7. Creativity & Imagination |
Content Standards
•Summarizing the key details of stories, dramas, poems, and nonfiction
•Identifying and judging evidence that authors use to change the reader’s point of view
•Integrating information from print and digital sources to answer questions and solve problems
•Building knowledge of academic words
•Writing opinions that offer reasoned argument and provide facts and examples
•Coming to classroom discussions prepared and engaging fully and thoughtfully with others
•Identifying and judging evidence that authors use to change the reader’s point of view
•Integrating information from print and digital sources to answer questions and solve problems
•Building knowledge of academic words
•Writing opinions that offer reasoned argument and provide facts and examples
•Coming to classroom discussions prepared and engaging fully and thoughtfully with others
Content• Developing fluency with addition and subtraction of fractions, and developing understanding of the multiplication of fractions and division of fractions in limited cases.
• Extending division to 2-digit divisors, integrating decimal fractions into the place value system and developing understanding of operations with decimals to hundredths, and developing fluency with whole number and decimal operations. • Developing understanding of volume. |
Practice• Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them
• Reason abstractly and quantitatively • Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others • Model with mathematics • Use appropriate tools strategically • Attend to precision • Look for and make use of structure • Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning |
Social StudiesContinuing the history, geography, civics and government, economics and culture strands from previous grades, fifth grade expectations will address change and continuity in United States history. Students begin the study of United States history with American Indian groups indigenous to the United States before the arrival of European settlers and conclude with the Civil War and Reconstruction period. Students will focus their study on the same time period as in fourth grade, but will transfer their understanding from the state to the national level.
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Science
Our units of study include the following...
• Ecosystems
• Weather
• Genetics, Cells & Human Body Systems
• Motion & Design
• Human Growth and Development (mini - unit)
Please see the document below for a much more in-depth look at what concepts your child should be able to explain by the end of the year!
• Ecosystems
• Weather
• Genetics, Cells & Human Body Systems
• Motion & Design
• Human Growth and Development (mini - unit)
Please see the document below for a much more in-depth look at what concepts your child should be able to explain by the end of the year!