5th Grade

Connecting Themes Enduring Understandings

Distribution of Power

Beliefs and Ideals

Location

Individuals, Groups,

Institutions

Conflict and Change

5th Grade

Movement/ Migration

ScarcityProduction, Distribution, Consumption

Beliefs & Ideals

People’s ideas and feelings influence their decisions.

Belief Decision

All Danes are equal. Protect/hide the Jews.

All Danes are not equal. Make the Jews wear the star.

Pilgrims– worship differently than the king

Harriet Tubman– slavery was wrong

Find a country where we can worship freely

Set up system to help them escape to freedom

Belief Decision

Susan B. Anthony--

Rosa Parks--

Martin Luther King-

Can you think of other examples?

Conflict & Change

Conflict causes change.

• Civil War

• WW 2 • ???

Country was divided for 4 years.

Slavery ended in America

Millions of Jews died

New boundaries were established in Europe

Individuals, Groups,

InstitutionsWhat people, groups, and institutions say and do can help or harm others

whether they mean to or not.

Name of individual

Important dates

Beliefs/ideas

Contribution to society

Interesting fact

Quote

WANTED

Location

Where people live matters.

Movement/ Migration

Moving to new places changes the people, land, and culture of the new

place, as well as the place that was left.

HFES HSS

IKES

How are these places different because you changed schools?

Production, Distribution, Consumption

The ways people make, get, and use goods and services may be different

from how people in other places make, get, and use goods and

services.

Production

Distribution

Consumption

The creation of something of value

The act of promoting, selling and delivering of goods

The using up of goods and services

FREE ENTERPRISE

Free enterprise is an economic system that gives individuals the opportunity to make their own economic decisions, free of government rules, and as private profit-potential businesses.

United States Department of AgricultureRural Business- Cooperative ServiceReprinted February 1997developed by Tammy M. Meyer

SUPPLY & DEMAND

Demand- the amount of goods or services for which consumers are willing to pay

Supply- the quantity of a product that producers are willing able to make and sell for different prices at a particular time

Scarcity

Because people cannot have everything they want, they have to make choices.

Limited ResourcesWhen you don’t have enough

to get what you want

Opportunity Costs

What you give up to get something else

Distribution of Power

Laws and people’s beliefs help decide who gets to make choices in

government.