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5th Grade Social Studies Curriculum – Citizenship & Civics in the United States

Unit 12 of the Smart and Simple Social Studies Guided U.S. History Curriculum offers a TEKS-aligned resource focusing on citizenship in the United States for 5th-grade teachers. With comprehensive lessons covering civic participation, contacting government leaders, and qualities of effective leaders, it provides minimal-prep, engaging activities to foster informed and active citizenship.

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# of Pages: 59
File Type: PDF, PPT, Google Apps

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Are you an upper elementary teacher looking to find a quality TEKS-aligned resource that targets how to be an informed and active citizen in the United States? Looking for minimal-prep and engaging lessons and activities to teach social studies concepts to your 5th-grade students? Look no further!

 

Unit 12 of the Smart and Simple Social Studies Guided U.S. History Curriculum is about Citizenship in the United States. The unit covers examples of civic participation, how to contact government leaders, famous leaders in the national U.S. government – past and present, and qualities that make an effective leader.

 

This 2-week unit includes lesson plans, guided notes, practice activities, exit tickets, a project, unit assessment, and more. Each lesson includes slideshows in both PowerPoint and Google Slides, as well as student digital activities of the notes, practice activities, exit tickets, project, and unit assessment.

 

This unit primarily correlates to the current TEKS 5th-grade Social Studies standards (adopted in 2024). It includes EVERYTHING you need to teach Citizenship and Civic Participation in the United States – just print & go!

 

This unit covers the following topics:

  • Lesson 1: Civic Participation
  • Lesson 2: Contacting Government Leaders
  • Lesson 3: Leaders in National Government
  • Lesson 4: Leadership Qualities
  • Lesson 5: Citizenship in the United States Review

 

 

What’s included in this resource?

  • 2-week pacing guide and overview
  • Scope and Sequence
  • 5 teacher lesson plan guides
  • 4 non-editable slideshows (Google Drive & PPT versions)
  • 1 editable slideshow review game
  • Guided notes for Lessons 1-4 (2 versions: fill-in-the-blank and highlighted words)
  • 4 practice activities
  • 5 exit tickets
  • Digital and full-color versions of student activities
  • Unit Project
  • Unit Assessment
  • Answer keys for all student activities

 

What makes this Guided Social Studies Curriculum Smart and Simple?

✅ The social studies daily lessons and activities are bite-sized and can easily be implemented in 30-45 minutes.

✅ The social studies curriculum is TEKS-aligned (for Texas) but is still flexible enough to use in any order or with any state curriculum.

✅ Each social studies unit has everything you need to simply teach social studies – easy-to-follow lesson plans, guided notes, practice activities, exit tickets, and more!

 

It’s everything you need to implement engaging social studies lessons that students love and teachers enjoy (because it’s comprehensive and easy to prep)!

 

© Kirsten Hammond – The Southern Teach

All rights reserved. Purchase of this unit entitles the purchaser the right to reproduce the pages in limited quantities for single classroom use only.  Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system or commercial purposes is strictly forbidden without written permission from the publisher. Copying any part of this product and placing it on the Internet in any form (even a personal/classroom website) is strictly forbidden. Failure to comply is a copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA). Clipart and elements found in this file are copyrighted and cannot be extracted and used outside of this file without permission or license.

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