| Description of Fifth Grade
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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