5FifthGrade
Quarter 4: Modern Western Hemisphere & Year-End Synthesis

Weeks 30–31

Civil Rights & Contemporary Issues

Movements for justice in the Americas: voting rights, Indigenous rights, environmental justice.

5.G.A.15.G.A.2RI.5.6W.5.2W.5.75-PS2-1NYS 5.8NYS 5.9
Download PDFOpen printable viewWorksheets (20 pages)With answers (25 pages)Answer key (5 pages)

Daily Plan

Monday

Voices of the American Civil Rights Movement

Lesson cardWorksheets
Analyze the strategies of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference during the 1960s Civil Rights Movement to identify methods of nonviolent resistance.
Math
Students use ordered pairs to represent the duration of protest marches on a coordinate plane (5.G.A.1).
ELA
Students identify multiple accounts of the Montgomery Bus Boycott to compare the perspectives of Rosa Parks and Jo Ann Robinson (RI.5.6).
Science
Students measure the time it takes for various paper shapes to fall to observe how air resistance acts as an unbalanced force (5-PS2-1).
Materials & prepShow

Social Studies

Math

ELA

Science

Tuesday

Mapping Progress and the Path to Voting

Lesson cardWorksheets
Examine the impact of the Selma to Montgomery marches on federal legislation regarding voting access for African Americans.
Math
Students plot coordinate points on a grid to map the geographic spread of lunch counter sit-ins across the American South (5.G.A.2).
ELA
Students draft an informational report using academic vocabulary to describe the significance of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (W.5.2).
Science
Students conduct an experiment dropping spheres of different masses to prove that the gravitational force toward Earth is constant (5-PS2-1).
Materials & prepShow

Social Studies

Math

ELA

Science

Wednesday

Indigenous Resistance and Land Rights Sovereignty

Lesson cardWorksheets
Identify the core grievances of the American Indian Movement (AIM) and their historical roots in broken treaties and land displacement.
Math
Students generate a table of values representing water usage over time and graph the resulting ordered pairs (5.G.A.1).
ELA
Students research the history of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline to gather evidence on land sovereignty (W.5.7).
Science
Students design parachutes for falling objects to demonstrate how increasing upward force can balance the downward pull of gravity (5-PS2-1).
Materials & prepShow

Social Studies

Math

ELA

Science

Thursday

Environmental Justice in Today's Communities

Lesson cardWorksheets
Investigate the Flint Water Crisis as a case study for how environmental policies disproportionately affect marginalized communities.
Math
Students interpret a coordinate graph showing the correlation between distance from pollutants and neighborhood health outcomes (5.G.A.2).
ELA
Students compare the rhetoric of modern environmental justice leaders with historical civil rights activists to analyze shifts in tone (RI.5.6).
Science
Students use force meters to measure the pull of gravity on historical artifact replicas to calculate the net force during a fall (5-PS2-1).
Materials & prepShow

Social Studies

Math

ELA

Science

Friday

Synthesis of Justice and Future Action

Lesson cardWorksheets
Participate in a Socratic Seminar discussing the continuity and change between 20th-century civil rights movements and modern environmental justice campaigns.
Math
Students create an original input/output table based on social demographics and graph the data to present to the class (5.G.A.1).
ELA
Students synthesize their research into a multimedia presentation that argues for a specific solution to a contemporary civil rights issue (W.5.7).
Science
Students write a lab report concluding how gravity and friction act as opposing forces on falling objects based on the week's trials (5-PS2-1).
Materials & prepShow

Social Studies

Math

ELA

Science

ELA Supplement This Week

Packet (.docx)Open full library →

Standards-tagged tasks landing in this window — reading responses, vocabulary, writing, grammar, or assessments from the Grade 5 ELA Package.

Reading response · Week 30 · 45 minutes

#4A — Q4 Novel (Hidden Figures Young Readers / The Wild Robot)

Final novel response — adds figurative-language identification.

RL.5.1RL.5.2RL.5.3L.5.5

Reading passage · Week 31 · 45 minutes

#4B — One Family's Journey

Original informational passage on a family's migration to the U.S. — connects to the year-end research capstone.

RI.5.1RI.5.2RI.5.6

Math Supplement This Week

Packet (.docx)Open full library →

Standards-tagged worksheets, quizzes, and assessments landing in this window — drawn from the Grade 5 Math Package and aligned to the CCSS being taught right now.

Worksheet · Week 30 · 30 min

#4B — Classifying Two-Dimensional Figures

True/false, attribute classification, and hierarchy reasoning for quadrilaterals.

5.G.B.3

Quiz · Week 31 · 20 min

#4.2 — Quiz: Shape Classification

10 problems on the quadrilateral hierarchy.

5.G.B.3

Science Supplement This Week

Packet (.docx)Open full library →

NGSS-aligned labs, worksheets, quizzes, and assessments landing in this window — every lab ends in a Claim-Evidence-Reasoning response students record in the science notebook.

Lab · Week 31 · 35 min

#4B — Apparent Brightness

Use two flashlights at varying distances to model why the sun looks brighter than larger stars.

5-ESS1-1

Social Studies Supplement This Week

Packet (.docx)Open full library →

NYS-framework map work, primary sources, comparison charts, and quizzes landing in this window — with state adaptations for TX, FL, CA, and VA available in the hub.

Daily / In-classWorksheet · Week 31 · 35 min

#4B — Cultural Diversity

Students locate cultural traditions (food, music, language, festivals) on a Western Hemisphere map and identify their origins.

NYS 5.5
Weekly quizQuiz · Week 30 · 20 min

#Q4.1 — Quiz 4.1 — Migration and Cultural Diversity

10-question quiz on push/pull factors and cultural origins.

NYS 5.5NYS 5.8

Student Workbook Pages for This Week

Open student workbook →

Color-coded printable pages students grab during the week — surfaced right when they're used.