Maura Raleigh

Mexico
Grade 5

Maura Raleigh
Illinois Learning Standards
LANGUAGE ARTS:
Reading Standards for Grade 5 Students: 2. Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from
details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the
speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.
4. Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
a. Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
b. Read on-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression
on successive readings.
c. Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading
as necessary.
Writing Standards for Grade 5 Students: 5. With guidance and support from peers and adults,
develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a
new approach. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1
3 up to and including grade 5 on pages 28 and 29.)

MATH:

5. Interpret multiplication as scaling (resizing), by:
a. Comparing the size of a product to the size of one factor on the basis of the size of the
other factor, without performing the indicated multiplication.
6. Solve real world problems involving multiplication of fractions and mixed numbers, e.g., by
using visual fraction models or equations to represent the problem.
Represent and interpret data.
2. Make a line plot to display a data set of measurements in fractions of a unit (1/2, 1/4, 1/8). Use
operations on fractions for this grade to solve problems involving information presented in line
plots. For example, given different measurements of liquid in identical beakers, find the amount
of liquid each beaker would contain if the total amount in all the beakers were redistributed
equally.

SCIENCE:

11.A.2c Construct charts and visualizations to display data.
11.A.2e Report and display the results of individual and group investigations.
12.B.2b Identify physical features of plants and animals that help them live in different
environments (e.g., specialized teeth for eating certain foods, thorns for protection, insulation for
cold temperature).
13.B.2d Compare the relative effectiveness of reducing, reusing and recycling in actual
situations.

Maura Raleigh
Mexico
Grade 5




ART:

27.A.2a Identify and describe the relationship between the arts and various environments (e.g.,
home, school, workplace, theatre, gallery).
27.B.2 Identify and describe how the arts communicate the similarities and differences among
various people, places and times.

MOVEMENT:

19.A.2 Demonstrate control when performing combinations and sequences in locomotor, non-
locomotor and manipulative motor patterns.

HEALTH:

22.A.2b Demonstrate strategies for the prevention and reduction of communicable and non-
communicable disease (e.g., practicing cleanliness, making healthy food choices, understanding
the importance of immunizations and regular health screenings).
22.C.2 Explain interrelationships between the environment and individual health (e.g., pollution
and respiratory problems, sun and skin cancer).

SOCIAL STUDIES:

16.A.2b Compare different stories about a historical figure or event and analyze differences in
the portrayals and perspectives they present.
16.D.2 (W) Describe the various roles of men, women and children in the family, at work, and
in the community in various time periods and places
17.A.2a Compare the physical character-istics of places including soils, land forms, vegetation,
wildlife, climate, natural hazards.
17.A.2b Use maps and other geographic representations and instruments to gather information
about people, places and environments.
17.C.2b Describe the relationships among location of resources, population distribution and
economic activities (e.g., transportation, trade, communications).
18.A.2 Explain ways in which language, stories, folk tales, music, media and artistic creations
serve as expressions of culture.









Maura Raleigh
Mexico
Grade 5




Timeline/Flowchart

Week/Day Lesson Title-Subject Describe Key Concepts of
Lesson
Week 1: Monday Guided Reading- Language
Arts
The class will be reading
books about Mexican culture
in guided reading groups as an
introduction to the unit.
Week 1: Tuesday Looking at Mexican Holidays-
Social Studies/Language Arts
In this lesson students will be
comparing and contrasting
Mexican holidays through
literature at centers around the
classroom.
Week 1: Wednesday Readers Theater: Outside the
Inn- Language
Arts/Movement
Students will be practicing and
then performing a play on the
Mexican holiday Las Posadas.
Week 1: Thursday Mexican Recipes- Math After learning about holidays,
they will be looking at food
present at these holiday
celebrations while doing math
recipe problems. The focus
will be on multiplying and
dividing fractions.
Week 1: Friday Papel Picado-Art Students will be creating the
traditional papel picado and
then it will be hung up around
the room.
Week 2: Monday Migration of Animals- Social
Studies/Math
Students will learn about why
animals migrate with a focus
on the migration of the
monarch butterfly. They will
be analyzing maps of
migration routes.
Week 2: Tuesday Where am I? Graphing
population- Math
Groups will be assigned
different parts of Mexico to
graph the populations.
Week 2: Wednesday Mexicos Climate and
Pollution- Science/Health
After researching the
populations, students will look
at the climates and the effects
of pollution in those areas.
Week 2: Thursday Significant People in
Mexicos History- Social
Studies
Each student will be assigned
someone in Mexicos History
and they will research and
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Grade 5

then present to the class as if
they were that person why
they are significant.
Week 2: Friday Acrostic- Language Arts To sum up the unit with
everything they learned, the
students will be making an
acrostic poem.