Fifth Grade

This unit alignment was created as a reference guide for lesson planning. It shows how the various curricular materials offered by CMS Social
Studies align with CMS units. This is not a required order, simply a guide for how the different lessons line up with one another. This may be used in
conjunction with other lessons based on the needs of teachers, students, and classrooms.

CMS Unit HMH Book Bundles TCI Lessons Inquir(y/ies) Cornerstone(s)

Pre-Work (Optional) ● Lesson 1: Geography

of the United States

Unit 1: Native People and ● Explorers and American Indians: ● Lesson 2: American
American Settlement Comparing Explorers’ and Indians and Their Land
Native Americans’ Experiences ● Lesson 3: American
Unit Guide by John Micklos Jr. Indian Cultural
Regions
● The Legacy and Legend of
Sample Planning Guide
Sacagawea​ by Margaret King
Essential Question(s): ● Cherokee​ by Cassandra Zardes
What do the cultural ● Native North American Wisdom
narratives of American and Gifts​ by Niki Walker and
Indian Groups reveal Bobbie Kalman
about their history, ● If You Lived With the Iroquois​ by
geography, economics and Ellen Levine
lifestyles, governance, ● The Trail of Tears​ by Joseph
beliefs and cultural
Bruchac
identity? How were their
● A Boy Called Slow: The True
cultures impacted by the
laws and policies of the Story of Sitting Bull​ by Joseph
U.S. government Bruchac
throughout American ● American Indian Stories and
History? Legends​ by Catherine
Chambers
NCES: ​5.H.1.1, 5.H.2.2,
5.C&G.1.1, 5.C&G.1.3, Unit 1 Digitized and Printable
5.G.1.1, 5.G.1.2, 5.E.2, Primary Sources
5.C.1.1, 5.C.1.2, 5.C.1.3
Unit 2: European
Explorers and
Settlement
Unit Guide
Essential Question:​ How
did Native Americans
adapt to their surroundings
and Early European
explorers?
NCES: ​5.H.1.1, 5.G.1,
5.E.1.1, 5.C&G.1.1,
5.C&G.2.1, 5.C.1
● America’s First Settlements​ by
Linda Thompson
● What was the First
Thanksgiving?​ by Joan Holub
● Ponce De Leon: Exploring
Florida and Puerto Rico​ by
Rachel Eagen
● Go West: First Contact with
Native Americans​ by Joan Holub
● Native Americans and the New
American Government​ by Kurt
Ray
● The Real Story about
Government and Politics in
Colonial America​ by Kristine
Carlson Asselin
● The First Settlers
● Kids Discover: George
Washington
● Lesson 4: How and “How do
Why Europeans Came relationships
to the New World contribute to the
● Lesson 5: Routes and social, political, and
Exploration to the New cultural
World development of the
● Lesson 6: Early new nation?”
English Settlements
● Lesson 7: Comparing
the Colonies
● Lesson 8: Slavery in
the Americas
● Lesson 9: Life in
Colonial Williamsburg

Unit 2 Digitized and Printable

Primary Sources

Unit 3:The American ● The Rebellious Colonists and ● Lesson 10: Tensions “Why Do The Father of Our
Revolution the Causes of the American Grow Between the Countries Country: What makes a
Revolution​ by Christopher Colonies and Great Declare good president of the
Unit Guide Forest Britain Independence?” United States?
● Lesson 11: To
● George Washington: Soldier,
Essential Question: ​What Declare Independence
Hero, President​ by Justine and
are the causes and effects or Not
of the American Revolution Ron Fontes ● Lesson 12: The
on the culture, ● Understanding the Declaration Declaration of
government, economy, of Independence​ by Sally Independence
and overall development of Senzell Isaacs ● Lesson 13: The
the United States? ● American Revolution: Colonies American Revolution
in Revolt and War for ● Lesson 14: The
NCES: ​5.H.1, 5.H.2, Constitution
5.G.1.2, 5.G.1.3, 5.G.1.4, Independence ● Lesson 15: The Bill of
5.E.1, 5.E.2, 5.C&G.1, ● The American Revolution​ by Rights
5.C&G.2, 5.C.1 Nicole Shea ● Lesson 16: Our Role in
● The Boston Tea Party​ by Linda Government
● Lesson 17: Shaping
Crotta Brennan
America’s Economy
● The Untold Story or the Black
● Lesson 18: Manifest
Regiment​ by Michael Burgan Destiny and Settling
● Kids Discover: Revolutionary the West
Women ● Lesson 19: The
Diverse Peoples of the
Unit 3 Digitized and Printable West
Primary Sources

Unit 4: The Civil War Epic Civil War Battles​ by Katie ● Lesson 20: The How Did Sugar
Marisco Causes of the Civil Feed Slavery?
Unit Guide Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin​ by War
Jessica Gunderson ● Lesson 21: The Civil
Essential Question:​ What War
If you Lived at the Time of the Civil
factors helped drive the
War​ by Kay Moore
North and South apart in
the mid-1800s? Slavery in America​ by Marie
Patterson
NCES:​ 5.H.1, 5.G.1.2, To Preserve the Union​ by
5.G.1.3, 5.G.1.4, 5.E.1.2, KaaVonia Hinton
5.C&G.1.2, 5.C&G.1.3, Railroads and Steamships:
5.C&G.2, 5.C.1.2, 5.C.1.3 Important Development in
American Transportation​ by
Suzanne J. Murdico

Unit 4 Digitized and Printable

Primary Sources

Additional Lesson Ideas ● Lesson 22: The Voting Rights of

American Industrial Women in the United
*​addresses NCES Revolution​^ States: How did
standards but not ● Lesson 23: The women’s suffrage
connected to a unit Modern United States​^ change the United
 States?​*
^​lessons preview 7th
grade topics Gold Rush in American
History: How did the
Gold Rush change
America?​*