5 th Grade Connecting Themes Enduring Understandings

Distribution of Power Beliefs and Ideals Location Individuals, Groups, Institutions Conflict and Change 5 th Grade Movement/ Migration Scarcity Production, Distribution, Consumption

Beliefs & Ideals People’s ideas and feelings influence their decisions.

BeliefDecision 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

BeliefDecision 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, Institutions What people, groups, and institutions say and do can help or harm others whether they mean to or not.

Name of individualImportant datesBeliefs/ideasContribution to societyInteresting factQuote

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.

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.

The creation of something of value The act of promoting, selling and delivering of goods The using up of goods and services

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 Agriculture Rural Business- Cooperative Service Reprinted February 1997 developed by Tammy M. Meyer

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.

When you don’t have enough to get what you want

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.